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  <title><![CDATA[Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[V.C. Andrews]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yeah?  So the hell <em>what</em>?  You've got a fucking problem with it? <br/><br/><em>Flowers in the Attic</em> is not only chick-lit, it's <em>young</em>-chick-lit -- or, more pointedly, it's young-chick-<em>on-the-cusp-of-budding-womanhood</em>-lit. In fact, I think that this whole majorly fucked-up Dollanganger series by V.C. An...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43630813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6921525">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[reluctant readers of the premenstrual persuasion]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 27 19:39:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 12 10:32:15 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These days, I'm always hearing people opine, &quot;Say what you want about <strong>Harry Potter,</strong> at least it's getting kids to read.&quot; Well, you could make a very good argument that <strong>Flowers in the Attic</strong> did the same thing for a generation of pre-teen girls. When I was 12, everybody was sneaking this nov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6921525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2201171">
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>20</votes>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 21 06:12:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 01 07:57:23 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book in grade school (maybe middle school) and I don't remember much except being in total awe that someone would write down such naughty things. I seem to remember a scene where the grandma walks in while they're having sex and they can't stop because they are so enraptured with the exp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2201171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45467050">
    <user id="42508">
    <name><![CDATA[Greg]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Woodside, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>9</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 10:28:08 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 07 06:56:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The inspiration for reading this book came from David's stellar review from a few weeks ago.  I know my own review of this book will not in any way compare.<br/><br/>Being of middle school age in the late 1980's it seemed like the reading type girls either read V.C. Andrews or <em>Sweet Valley High</em>, o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45467050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5413083">
    <user id="328280">
    <name><![CDATA[Linnea]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>9</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[time wasters]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 31 06:50:27 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 20 08:25:42 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have this unfortunate penchant for ugly things; I buy ugly jewlery, I go out with slightly unatractive men, and I read books like this.<br/><br/>It's awful, and yet there is something about how awful it is that made me enjoy it. I have a relationship with VC Andrews that goes way back. In my jun...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5413083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2196170">
    <user id="25483">
    <name><![CDATA[Carolanne]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>6</votes>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 20 22:55:22 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 20 22:56:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[How can you not love a book about a brother and sister who have sex because they are foced to live in the attic while their grandma slowly poisions them with rat poision in doughnuts? ]]></body>
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    <review id="7945854">
    <user id="558379">
    <name><![CDATA[Anne-Marie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Stone Mountain, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 19 12:42:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 26 07:54:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Flowers in the Attic when I was 11 or 12 years old. I'm pretty sure the copy I had was borrowed from my BFF's older (and cooler) sister without her permission. This book was creepy and scary and erotic enough to make me feel rebellious. I knew that parents would not want me to be reading abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7945854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15752375">
    <user id="908491">
    <name><![CDATA[Yumi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 18 19:29:16 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 18 19:36:47 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[admit it: everyone goes through a v.c. andrews phase, devouring every word of her ghost-written books and all the anguished incest-y desires that jump off the page in horridly written prose. if jerry springer and tyra banks ever had a lovechild and turned it into text, v.c. andrews books would be it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15752375">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33192228">
    <user id="711091">
    <name><![CDATA[Denys L.H.]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <spoiler_flag>true</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone with an open-mind]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 18 13:56:49 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 18 16:22:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever watched the 1980 movie adapted from the book? I have. That is how I stumbled upon this story about four siblings locked in an attic by their selfish mother and bitter grandmother. After years of finding this book, I finally encountered it in my high school library and right away, started readin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33192228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17245680">
    <user id="967345">
    <name><![CDATA[Beth]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Deckerville, MI]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Mar 07 11:26:52 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 07 15:55:10 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flowers in the Attic did something wonderful for my generation of pre-teen girls. It allowed us to explore our sexuality. When I was 12, everybody seemed to be sneaking this novel under the covers or behind their school books. I remember a girl brought it out during our free reading period in Englis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17245680">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="18732347">
    <user id="827008">
    <name><![CDATA[Stephanee]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Norman, OK]]></location>        
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      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
  <spoiler_flag>false</spoiler_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 26 20:53:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 26 21:03:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I cannot rate this book.  I really can't say whether I loved it or hated it.  So I'd have to give it a 3 for being right in the middle, but that really doesn't describe it either.<br/><br/>I read it in 7th grade, and I remember not being able to stop reading it.  This book was a train wreck with l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18732347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10299113">
    <user id="123501">
    <name><![CDATA[treehugger]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chapel Hill, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 11 19:38:32 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 11 19:42:08 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Like others have said in their reviews, this is was one of the books that launched me out of young adult novels into the adult world of 'pretty much anything goes' fiction.  The first book I ever read that had sex in it, and, 15 years later, I'm still disturbed by the incest (and the author's contin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10299113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4594079">
    <user id="250203">
    <name><![CDATA[Neva]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[East Haddam, CT]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
  <sell_flag>false</sell_flag>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People who like weird crap]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 15 11:24:14 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 15 11:29:30 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, VC Andrews. I love how you've been dead for 20 years and somehow found the time to write 600 new books. This isn't one of those books, though. You actually wrote it! This is a magical tale of Cathy and her magical romance with her brother. Intrigued? Of course you are. It also features a money h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4594079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5566055">
    <user id="311106">
    <name><![CDATA[Kristen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Melbourne, Australia]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[No-one]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 03 03:08:47 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 03 03:32:18 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really hate this book. I also hate &quot;Petals on The Wind&quot;, &quot;If There Be Thorns&quot; and &quot;Seeds of Yesterday&quot;. I say this having just re-read each of the above 17 years after I first read them (they were heady stuff to a 12 year old), and I was appalled at the predictability...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5566055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46501276">
    <user id="1578083">
    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Tina O.]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 16 06:10:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 16 06:31:24 -0800 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>5 or more</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[When I was in my early teen years reading Sweet Valley High with my allowance money, a girlfriend (Tina O.) loaned me four of her V.C. Andrews books. DAAAAAAAAMN. Popped my little girl eyes open and introduced me to teen porn. <br/><br/>You have everything in here that speaks to a budding woman fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46501276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26468478">
    <user id="1198633">
    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Springfield, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
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    <body><![CDATA[If loving the Flowers In The Attic series is wrong, then I don't want to be right.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The four Dollanganger children have perfect suburban lives&#151;until their father is killed in a car accident and, unable to support her children alone, their mother returns to her abusive parents. Their grandmother orders the children kept secret, locked away in a single abandoned room with access to t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33377322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can see from a great deal of the reviews that many of the reviewers are around my age (late twenties, early thirties).  Somewhere between Michael Jackson, who was child-like but grabbed his crouch and made faces as if he was in the throes of passion, hot, plastic jelly shoes, biker shorts, big shi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28983973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in 9th grade, which I think is the average (or possibly required age) people start reading VC Andrews. I had no idea what I was about to read when I picked it up and looking back, I don't know how I feel about my mom recommending it to me. In retrospect though, when I go back and read re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27131604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At some point after graduating high school, I decided to read at least one book by certain popular authors. This was V.C. Andrews most popular book, so this is what I read. Subject matter aside, Andrews writes well. While not the best author I've read, she's far from the worst and deserves her faith...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24684824">more...</a>]]></body>
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