Badly Written Porn (Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews)

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Product:	Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews
Date:	02.05.08 (79 review reads)
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Advantages: A good book to giggle over

Disadvantages: Horribly badly written

I remember when I was about fourteen. This book was the one slipped between girls in my class with the whispers and giggles of teenagers up to something that they weren't quite meant to be.

Flowers in the Attic is a book about a family gone wrong. Disowned when she ran away with her first cousin, the mother suddenly finds herself in serious trouble when her husband dies in a car accident, leaving her with four children to raise alone. She writes to her parents to ask for help, but knows her father will never accept her children - the children of incest. So together she and her mother hide them away in the attic, meaning to tell her father when he'd grown to love her again, but always somehow putting it off.

So, why is this book so popular amongst teenage girls? I'll be blunt. It's because it contains porn. It has what I, as an adult, would desribe as laughably badly written porn. If you're 14 descriptions of "his hardness" are probably very exciting, but as an adult it just makes me giggle. Virginia Andrews seems dedicated to describing the genitals without actually using the words because THAT would be dirty.

I'd tell you not to read it, but you will anyway, just as we did at 14, just as I sometimes still do convinced it can't be that bad. So, when you do, you can get a copy for £5.05 from Amazon. Just have a shower ready for afterwards.

Summary: Not at all to be taken seriously