Petals on the Wind

Petals on the Wind by V.C Andrews:

The continuing story of the Dollanganger family and it picks up right after the other book. The family is taken in by a wonderful doctor and they grow up under his watchful gaze.

                                    *SPOILER ALERT*

ok so I can’t really divulge anything without spoiler alert because its hard not to say anything. It isn’t as incestuous as I thought, Christopher never touches his sister again as she is growing up and none of her children and up being his. The doctor takes them in as he is infatuated by Cathy who is by far a huge tease and she knows it. Carrie is sent away to a boarding school and is consequently tortured by her underdevelopment. Chris studies hard and has tutelage from his benefactor the doctor so he can get thru medical school as quickly as possible. Cathy does become a famous ballerina and fucks the doctor and then in a fit of anger breaks their engagement and marries her dance partner. Julian makes her wish she never had when she finally realizes that she loves him he breaks her toes and then gets himself in a terrible car wreck rendering him unable to ever dance again. Upon hearing this tidbit of news he cuts his iv needle and kills himself. Cathy finally realizes she loves him and then goes to Foxworth Hall and is determined to seduce her mother’s husband and take him away from her. She succeeds and then when she gets pregnant she decides to unveil her plan, looking exactly like her mother 20 years ago she reveals the truth to everyone. Bart Winslow, her mother’s husband, takes her and her mother into the study where the old Grandmother is also waiting and her mother finally cops to all the horrible things she has ever done. Then the mom sets fire to the  house and Winslow dies. Cathy goes back and marries Paul and he dies and she marries Chris. They leave with their two children (one Julian’s the other Winslow’s ). Oh and Carrie dies she also kills herself.

Bitch Please!

This book was sad and pretty good I was annoyed with everyone telling Cathy how desirable she is and how they all pretty much rape her with the exception of Paul who is a gentleman and would never do that. Then there’s the whole brother obsession thing. I don’t know I won’t read the other books in the series they’re too depressing and honestly sometimes she goes overboard with the rape scenes. I think that its half well written and half ridiculous. Cathy is so miserable blaming shit on her mother she just can’t let herself be happy until she destroyed her. You know what I think I would have immediately seen that my mother went to prison and then lived my life in a wholly new way, trying to erase the horrible shit I’d been through. Overall the series wasn’t so bad it was better than some other stuff I’ve read and it was engrossing.

Horror Movie Marathon

So my sister and I have been watching all the universal horror movies of old.We started with the hunchback of Notre dame and have now currently seen phantom of the opera, Dracula and bride of Frankenstein. Here's the review:

Hunchback of Notre dame: 

Ok considering I didn't like the ending of the book I did like this rendition of the movie.perhaps because the movie had a just ending. Ok two saving grace Esmeralda' s portrayal and interaction with Quasimodo. That and the romance that grew between Gringoire and Esmeralda, which is better than the author posting her up with that ass phoebeus who I am happy to say has a minor role. I liked this it felt more just and even though I still feel sorry for Quasimodo I understand that love cannot involve ugly. In an observation I noticed that Maureen O'Hara reminds me of Kate Winslet.

Am I right or am I right! 

Phantom of th  opera:

My main problem with this movie was that I felt sorry for the phantom whom in the book and in the 2004 rendition of the movie I hadn't. This poor poor man. Poor Claudin, he worked all his life for a love that could never be his. Fucking Christine played fiddle with all  of those mans emotions. The three being the phantom, the policeman Raoul, and the baritone Garron who by the way look alike and made for confusing cinematic experience. Ok things I liked: the staging was pretty awesome and the music sans the singing I dug.
What I didn't like? The costuming, the story, the lack of horror, the ducked up story line, the opera....let's just say bad rendition of phantom.

See they are eerily similar.

We saw Dracula too but I'm saving the ruler of the night for a different post.

For now this is it. I'll post on Mama and The woman in black later.