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Top Final Sentences of 2023
He knew that on the day of his death he would see her face and he could hope to carry that beauty into the darkness with him, the last pagan on earth, singing softly upon his pallet in an unknown tongue.
Cormac McCarthy, from The Passenger
And there are so many silences to be broken.
Audre Lorde, from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”
For Guinevere Tallow, it felt like coming home.
Ethan M. Aldridge, from Deephaven
And we laughed and held each other and filled our hearts with the faith that we could always do that, always blow away the clouds that threatened our stars.
Andrew Neiderman as V.C. Andrews, from Honey
But as anyone who loves reading and writing quickly learns, both activities allow you to commune with the living and the dead, to listen to the thoughts of those who have come before you and argue, cajole, and sing praise for them in response.
Kaitlyn Greenidge, from “Books for a Black Girl’s Soul”
The greatest shame would be to reach the end of our lives and have the epitaph read, ‘They worked really hard.’
Roxane Gay, from “Yes, Your Job Is Important. But It’s Not All Important.”
The sky is gory with stars, like the insides of a gutted night.
Julia Armfield, from “Salt Slow”
Sometimes, even in towns built on curses, at least once in a blue moon, things turn out okay.
Ryan Douglass, from “Knickknack”
Eventually, if we speak the truth to each other, it will become unavoidable to ourselves.
Audre Lorde, from “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger”
In the distance, the darkness has started to lift like a veil, the first light of dawn spilling over the Beijing skyline, a promise of all the beautiful and terrible and sun-soaked days to come.
Ann Liang, from If You Could See the Sun
#Cormac McCarthy#the passenger#The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action#audre lorde#Ethan M. Aldridge#deephaven#Andrew Neiderman#v.c. andrews#honey#Kaitlyn Greenidge#Books for a Black Girl’s Soul#roxane gay#Yes Your Job Is Important. But It’s Not All Important.#Julia Armfield#salt slow#Ryan Douglass#Knickknack#Eye to Eye: Black Women Hatred and Anger#If You Could See the Sun#ann liang#best of 2023
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pin by andrew neiderman
#pin#andrew neiderman#pin 1981#martyr#sparrow#mine#quote#god this book was written for me in specific im obsessed w these weirdos
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Andrew Neiderman - PIN - Pocket - 1981
#witches#occult#vintage#fiction#novel#brothers#sisters#sins#andrew neiderman#PIN#pocket library#1981
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Um estudo psicológico: Pin, Uma Jornada Além da Loucura (Pin, 1988)
#Sandor Stern#pin movie#80's movies#Andrew Neiderman#schizophrenia#madness#David Hewlett#Terry O'Quinn#Cynthia Preston#Bronwen Mantel#Jonathan Banks#Jacob Tierney#John Pyper-Ferguson#Helene Udy#Youtube
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Twilight's Child by V. C. Andrews
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Have you read...
Everyone in town knew there was something different about Lois Wilson. But Lois didn't care. Lois cared only about Science. Behavioral Science. Even when the kids at school taunted her, Lois didn't care. Even though her parents were disturbed by her, and her little brother worshiped her--Lois didn't care. And when her father suffered a stroke and her mother began drinking, strong, implacable Lois was in complete control. Now her scientific curiosity could have full expression. If she could control the behavior of laboratory animals, imagine what she could do with...people.
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#Brainchild#Andrew Neiderman#horror books#horror#bookblr#books#horrorbookpoll#scifi#science fiction#scifi horror#science fiction horror#thriller books
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Perfect Little Angels (1998, dir. Timothy Bond)
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❮Corine,' I heard a voice whisper, 'what would I have done if I never found you? How would I have lived? You are my life. You are my sole reason for my existence. You are-' 'Shhh,' Corine said, 'someone might hear.' 'I don't care if they hear. I love you. I want the world to know it!❯
❝It is not incestous,' Corine said softly. 'And our love is too pure and good for it to be sinful. These are not the laws of God, but the laws of man you quote. In many societies, marriage of cousins and close relatives is even expected. Why-❜
Garden Of Shadows By V.C. Andrews and Andrew Neiderman.
@shipcestuous
#Shipcestious#i hope i can tag you in stuff astrid#otp; foxworth lovers#chris x corine#i'm using V.C.'s spelling of the name rather than Andrew's.#V.C. Andrews#Andrew Neiderman#my art#my edit#incest tw
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THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE
1997 | dir. Taylor Hackford
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Andrew Neiderman
#the devil's advocate#filmedit#horroredit#keaunu reeves#al pacino#keanureevesedit#kreevesedit#ours#by teri#author: andrew neiderman#userkd#usermichi#userdiana
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And we laughed and held each other and filled our hearts with the faith that we could always do that, always blow away the clouds that threatened our stars.
Andrew Neiderman as V.C. Andrews, from Honey
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supernatural 3.01, the magnificent seven / pin by andrew neiderman
#supernatural#spn#spnedit#pin#andrew neiderman#martyr#mine#comparatives#this is definitly my most insane post im so sorry
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The Pin: A Plastic Nightmare to Tender Loving Care the interactive movie to The Devil's Advocate pipeline is a lot shorter than one might think.
#Hint. They're all based on books written by Andrew Neiderman#Renae and I watched Pin years ago. silly psychodrama starring David Helwett#then earlier this year the McElroys played Tender Loving Care and we were curious enough abt it to suffer thru the bad gameplay#(and the game became unresponsive 5hrs in)#and Finally I had Renae watch The Devil's Advocate which she hadn't seen#and during TLC we noted andrew and saw he'd written the Pin book#and lord his name popped up during Devil's Advocate a lot of things started slotting into place#anyhoo three writers adapting Neideman books with wildly different results#and he also was V.C. Andrews' ghostwriter#narrowcasting here
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the moral of the story is: stop lockin ya damn kids in attics and closets ohmygod
#a whole family of insane white colonizers just fuckin up their kids with solitary confinement#ily vc andrews and andrew neiderman#book 3 fucked me upppppp#the dollangangers
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hi mari. do you have any good thriller-inc'est book recs? i have finished rereading sharp objects and although i liked it a lot more in a second read, I've been thinking a lot abt amma. if you have read and liked anything with characters like that recently, I'd be happy to know!
i don't think i'm the best person to answer this because i actually don't read many books similar to sharp objects. i can recommend flowers in the attic, which is not a thriller but did serve as inspiration to gillian flynn (this would be obvious even if she hadn't stated it out right) and also involves family drama, abuse and incest. in fact, all of vc andrews books could more or less fit the bill, not just the dollaganger saga. they all focus on dysfunctional, abusive families and incestuous (or very suggestive, as is the case in my sweet audrina) relationships.
note that vc andrews wrote, i believe, nine books (including the ones finished by andrew neiderman), but ghostwriters published several more under her name. i'm not familiar with andrew neiderman's solo work, but i think it'd be safe to guess there are some strong similarities with andrews. i did watch the film adaptatin of his novel pin and it was really fun, though significantly different from sharp objects and much more humorous.
in the vein of books centered on family, we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson is perfect and might scratch the itch for weird girls and dysfunctional families.
the mafu cage is a film based on a play (which i haven't read) and it's also a psychological drama, though not a thriller, involving two sisters in a dysfunctional relationship.
i can't think of more right now, though maybe i'll remember something later. but it's easier to think of books similar to sharp objects in terms of style and atmosphere, and which have interesting relationships between women, but which don't center on family and don't have anything suggesting incest. gillian flynn herself has recommended a lot of books (here & here) and many of them contain elements that you can find in her own work.
@alaynestone i hope i'm not bothering you and let me know if i should delete this, but maybe you have some recs? i just thought it might be something up your alley, as you are a sharp objects understander.
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Out of the Attic, by V.C. Andrews
...except it's actually ghost-written by Andrew Neiderman because the real Virginia Andrews has been dead since 1986 and this book came out in 2020. It is also just... not very good.
Spoilers ahead.
TW: rape, abusive relationship, controlling behaviour
Out of the Attic is a tie in to the popular Dollanganger series by Virginia Andrews, the first book of which was Flowers in the Attic, which was published in 1979. Andrews wrote 5 books for the series before she passed away, and then in 2014 the series was revived for another 6 books by ghost writers hired by the family. Out of the Attic is the 10th book written for the series, but chronologically takes place before Flowers in the Attic and focuses on Corrine Foxworth, Malcolm Foxworth's mother, as she marries into the family and has her son.
I think Neiderman was aiming to make Corrine a more likeable and relatable character by having her be married into the family against her will and feel isolated and alone as she is whisked away from the family and friends she's known all her life and taken to live in the grand and unwelcoming Foxworth hall. She is plied with alcohol and raped by Garland Foxworth, which results in a pregnancy that means she has to marry Garland or face ruin.
She obviously marries him, and things are going well at first but soon end up with her all alone in this huge house, sections of which she is too scared to go into, and with an infant son that she feels no maternal connection to. Corrine spends five years rattling around doing pretty much nothing but shopping, keeping up with the latest fashions, and making herself look beautiful every day whilst a nanny raises her son, whom she by now actively dislikes, until one day she meets a woman whilst out shopping who says she should join their ladies club.
Corrine then finds out Garland is cheating on her, goes to a Halloween party dressed as a nun, takes her son and the nanny to the beach, hires an artist she met at the Halloween party to paint her portrait, has an affair with said artist (his name is Beau and he seems very nice), gets raped by Garland again, then flees to France with Beau where she discovers that she's pregnant with Garland's child. The end, thank god.
Now, on reading that brief summary you may be thinking 'yeah, that doesn't sound like a very fun life, I feel like I could sympathise with this character', but the way that Corrine is written and portrayed really just makes you dislike her. You sympathise with her in some aspects, where in others you're just sort of left thinking she's actually a horrible person.
Take her relationship with her son, for instance; Corrine believes that Malcolm is evil and conniving and and manipulative. He misbehaves, he tries to wriggle his way out of punishments, and he asks questions and keeps pestering her for things.
Malcolm is also 4 years old.
Now, I'm not particularly fond of young children myself, so I understand her not wanting to be around him 24/7 or finding him a bit overwhelming at times. However, I don't think calling this behaviour 'evil' is quite correct. All 4-year-olds ask a ton of questions, all 4-year-olds will try to escape punishment for things they've done, all 4-year-olds will pester you to go places and do things, especially if you've promised them such things earlier in the week (Corrine is on several occasions annoyed by Malcolm asking to go to the seaside... after she herself suggested they go to the seaside but didn't tell him when that would happen).
I know that Malcolm Foxworth grows up to be the grandfather of the Dollanganger children who are then locked in the attic (and Neiderman even tries to foreshadow that by having him very briefly lock Corrine in the attic in this book) so Neiderman is obviously trying to plant the seeds of a very disturbed person, but it's like the man has never met a toddler before. We're supposed to be on Corrine's side, to look at Malcolm and say 'ah, so he's always been evil and bad', but Malcolm just isn't ; he's just a child who's a little bit spoilt. The most 'evil' things he does are destroy a wedding photograph album belonging to his mother (which certainly isn't good behaviour but children have definitely done worse), and lock her in the attic... when she's chasing him round the house threatening to beat him with a belt for destroying the album. This woman is not likeable.
Obviously it goes without saying that a book character doesn't have to be morally good in order to be a compelling and interesting point of view character, but the framing of the book so often seems like it's trying to portray her in a positive light that it just... I don't know. It doesn't feel very good to read. We don't linger on Corrine's trauma or her feelings of loneliness or isolation long enough to develop as much sympathy for her as I think the author would like. There's quite a bit of telling and not much showing.
Also, Neiderman is very 'men writing women' in places. There's a lot of hot flushes rushing to breasts of course, but also there's... this???
Image description: Quote from the book that reads as follows;
"What are they?"
"Open and see."
Children and women are so distracted, so mesmerised, by surprise presents that they'd ignore being in a burning building, I thought. I was disappointed at how excited I was and how quickly my pride and indignation had weakened, my fury and determination along with them. I had stepped in here ready to demand answers to questions I knew would stir his rage. I was more than willing to do that than ever I had bee, but right now all I could think was What's in those boxes?
Image description end.
So yeah, apparently women will disregard their own safety for shiny presents. This, by the way, is when she's going to confront him about cheating on her.
Overall, a thoroughly mediocre reading experience that I do not recommend to anyone. If you liked Flowers in the Attic then this will just annoy you and taint your memories of it, and if you've never read the Dollanganger books then there's no point in picking it up because nothing substantial happens in it!
#books & libraries#book review#v c andrews#flowers in the attic#out of the attic#men writing women#I just really feel like several opportunities were missed#this could have been so much better#also I'm still really uncomfortable with families using ghost writers to profit off their dead relatives names#it's like william w johnstone all over again
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