Virginia Andrews

Poison Ivy · Post by **Poison Ivy** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 6:11 pm

Does anyone know Virginia Andrews and her books? The books are mostly series of 4-5 books! They're absolutely amazing!

xxx Ivy!

Poison Ivy · Post by **Poison Ivy** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:58 pm

Nobody?

Zanssoulmate08 · Post by **Zanssoulmate08** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:45 pm

Did she write Flowers in the Attic?

-Sarah

Heavenli24 · Post by **Heavenli24** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:30 pm

Yes, she wrote Flowers in the Attic.

I've read quite a few of the series.

They're good, but to be honest, they kind of freak me out

!

Almost every book or series contains the message that sex is a sin; it is evil and anyone doing it or thinking about it must be punished; and I don't really agree, nor am I particularly comfortable with those views of life.

Don't get me wrong, the books are good and hard to put down

, but their themes are a little strange.

Poison Ivy · Post by **Poison Ivy** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 5:37 am

You are right about the themes, but I think they're well written and I just go pass that 'Sex is a sin' thing.

xxx Ivy

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:27 pm

V.Andrews books to me are all a little kooky. Apart from the fact she didn't actually write a lot of them, they all seem to include incest, rape, mistaken identity and some kind of murder. In general these ideas although sometimes hard to read are well 'normal' but each series seems to be the same but set in a different time and place.

I have a dozen or so of her books, but haven't read them in maybe 5 years because I felt like I was reading the same story over and over again.

They're well written and each I think that if you only read one or two series it's great....

Icequeen · Post by **Icequeen** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:47 pm

IS she V.C Andrews? If so i only read one series of hers a while ago. i think the first one in teh series was called Dawn. I liked it. Saw the movie of flowers in the attic...creepy. LOL

Poison Ivy · Post by **Poison Ivy** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:03 am

Yes, that's true she didn't wrote most of her own books. Family, friends, ... continued writing onder her name after her death. But the ideas are hers!

I saw the film also and actually the book is better. My favourite series of her is 'Ruby'.

xxx Ivy!

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:31 pm

I actually went searching for these books last night...and flipped through them again. I actually had a lot more than I thought, about 10...they were really big when I was in high school...memories.

Out of the ones I have read Ruby was my favourite one, and I think Dawn..Was Dawn the one where Jimmy was her brother but ended up not being her brother and she fell in love with him? And Ruby was set in NO?

Ok I just checked Amazon and I have all the Cutler and Landry series books. Hmm..maybe I'll have to reread them!!! Damn that's another 10 books added to the already huge pile I have to read!!

LovinGuerin2Much · Post by **LovinGuerin2Much** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:53 pm

lazza wrote:

Was Dawn the one where Jimmy was her brother but ended up not being her brother and she fell in love with him?

Yup, lol thats the one...I also used to read her ALOT when I was younger, Dawn was one of my favs, along with Ruby... there was also a one about sisters that were like orphans or something....incest and kinda creepy.....but over all good books.