#andrew neiderman

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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

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funniest thing about flowers in the attic: the origin is the implication that olivia foxworth would be cool w having a gay son

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pin by andrew neiderman

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Um estudo psicológico: Pin, Uma Jornada Além da Loucura (Pin, 1988)

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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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Perfect Little Angels (1998, dir. Timothy Bond)

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THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE 1997 | dir. Taylor Hackford Adapted from the novel of the same name by Andrew Neiderman

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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.

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the moral of the story is: stop lockin ya damn kids in attics and closets ohmygod

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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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do u have any recommendations for teenage sibling incest books? i already read forbidden & loved it, & have added josie & jack to my to-read list since seeing your post mentioning it. i would love to know if there are any other coming-of-age stories about sibling incest that you know of !

Just be careful, Josie & Jack is not a love story. It's a very toxic relationship between co-dependent siblings. In that same style, there's also Flawed by Kate Avelynn, only that in Flawed it's more that the brother is obsessed, but he's not abusive to the sister (just to everyone else).

Love's Forbidden Flower by Diane Rinella starts when they were teenagers, but the siblings don't actually get together until they are in college, because they feel too conflicted about it.

Relations by Carolyn Slaughter follows a incestuous relationship between siblings as they grow up, with the siblings being together since late childhood. Pin by Andrew Neiderman is similar in this aspect, but it's also very disturbing and it's not a cutesy love story (well, most of this recs aren't, but this one is particularly disturbing imo). (I say disturbing but I also gave it 4 starts on Goodreads... what can I say, I love disturbing).

There is Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews, which also begins when the siblings are teenager. And in the same vein as 'orphans parenting the young ones', there's The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan.

If you liked Forbidden, there's the equally tragic Wasteland by Francesca Lia Block. And by tragic, I mean ending in death.

I'm currently reading The Innocents by Michael Crummey, which also follow the siblings as they grow up by themselves. However, I think it's more of a survival story than a coming of age one.

I think that's all coming of age novels I can think off.

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supernatural 3.01, the magnificent seven / pin by andrew neiderman

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Why doesn't Neiderman use his own name? I just don't get why he has take Vc andrews legacy. tbh, he isn't even a bad writer. I liked the Gemini books, and the cutler family, and I'm about to read Ruby.

Omg my friend i could talk about this all day with you 😭

Its sad because he does- or DID- write under his own name. His most notable work is Devil’s Advocate which had a movie adaptation with Keanu Reeves

I’m assuming he keeps writing under the VC Andrews brand because first and foremost- the publisher keeps paying him to do it. As long as people keep buying the new books, they’ll keep renewing his contract to write them. Believe it or not, a lot of casual fans, and those offline, dont really even know the real VC Andrews is dead.

And secondly, none of his own works (aside from maybe devil’s advocate) can touch the cult fame of Fita. I mean his name isnt a recognizable brand that way Vc Andrews is. So career wise it makes sense for him to stick with it. But i bet it kills him to know this. To know he has to pretend to be someone else in order to hit these sales numbers. That even under the vca label he hasnt come close to cracking Fita numbers. And he can NEVER claim ownership of fita, though he sure tries…

Ive said it before, but im convinced he thinks he IS Vc Andrews. Like, because he wrote more books under the name than Virginia that makes him the REAL vc andrews instead of her 🙄

I do like some of his vca books, like the Landry series, but this never should have gone on for as long as it has. Youre completely right in saying he tarnishes her legacy. This amazing disabled woman, later in her life, wrote a sensational debut hit which surprised everyone including her editor. She had an incredible legacy in her short time as an author. And now some man she never even met claims ownership of HER success. Its like some misogynistic injustice shit vca would write about lol

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Please tell me about prophecy and the seventh sign and any other movies/media that explores the dynamics you're talking about I wanna hear!!

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For anyone reading this who doesn't know what this is about, I am recommending movies with religious themes that are not like... NICE religious. These are more along the lines of "Angels do not have free will and exist to do God's bidding - God's will frequently involves horrible, horrible things. Source: the Bible." My mother, who was raised to be devoutly Protestant and is now a devout atheist with religious trauma, loves movies like this. She calls them "nasty angel movies" but in general she likes things with religious themes that aren't preachy - and in fact might be the opposite. She likes media with the premise that God (of abrahamic faiths, particularly christianity) is real, but not benevolent. i'm struggling to define this genre because it's late lol

so, The Prophecy (1995)! fucking great movie. it's told mostly from the perspective of a detective who was previously training to be a catholic priest but lost his faith because of horrible visions. Christopher Walken portrays the angel Gabriel who has come to claim an extremely evil soul as a weapon for a second war in heaven. he is NOT a nice angel. i THINK the angels are upset that God has focused all His energy on humanity? but i may be misremembering. anyway this evilest soul ever has been placed temporarily in the body of a little native american girl who immediately becomes ill and is looked after by her teacher mostly, and Gabriel is looking for it and he's the villain of the movie, basically. it does have potentially uh,, slightly 90s ideas of Native American spirituality? possibly problematic/stereotyping? but i'm british and know almost nothing about native americans so i can't tell you if it's egregiously bad, or if its just a bit cringe. but the movie itself is really really good imo. also, Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer. Can't really go into that too much without spoilers, but he's INCREDIBLE. He makes the entire film.

I personally loved it because Gabriel is the angel who told Mary she would be giving birth to the son of God, right? most children raised in Western Christian nations are familiar with the Nativity and angel Gabriel above all others. But he's not a nice guy here - he's a servant of God, and he's mad about it. He uses humans as tools, kills, he's horrible lol. Interestingly, wikipedia seems to suggest that most people thought it was bad but it's gone on to become a cult film? idk i think its great.

Seventh Sign (1988) I didn't enjoy as much (personal opinion, my mum loves it) but the concept is really good. Basically, signs of the biblical apocalypse are happening and mostly being explained away, but they're happening. Leans a little bit into Hebrew theology too. A woman (demi moore) is pregnant with a baby, but there were a limited amount of souls in heaven, and now the first baby without a soul is soon to be born, and it's hers.

My mother also recommends Devil's Advocate (1997) which I've not seen myself but the main actors are Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino so I reckon it must be good lol. From the wikipedia it seems to be more of a horror, so if you have triggers I'd search on "does the dog die" (i've heard it's good for spoiler free trigger warnings) but according to wikipedia: "Based on Andrew Neiderman's 1990 novel of the same name, it is about a gifted young Florida lawyer invited to work for a major New York City law firm. As his wife becomes haunted by frightening visions, the lawyer slowly realizes the firm's owner, John Milton, is in fact, the Devil."

She also likes Constantine and Legion but i've not seen either nor talked to her about them so can't say anything about those lol

also this is a series and not a movie but I NEED you to watch Midnight Mass. it's by the same director who did The Fall of the House of Usher and the Haunting of Hill House and it's just absolutely incredible. It's a single series and it's about a village of like, a hundred or so people that's dying because small village. it's quite a religious town, the centre of the community is the catholic church, and the aging and senile priest has gone on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He doesn't return, and instead, a younger, unknown priest returns with new enigmatic sermons and then he performs actual miracles - he heals a girl in a wheelchair, for example. I don't want to spoil this but weird shit starts happening and it's a horror series again. My mum particularly liked (hated) a character called Bev Keane, she said she reminded her of her mother. The most miserable, awful, religious zealot, who never actually says anything cruel - she hides her awfulness behind scripture and religious quotes and is impossible to argue with or accuse of anything because she serves god! she's awful in such a hard to define way. Honestly the whole series is fantastic, and it's so well done. its one of those series where its impossible to make a sequel because its done perfectly. can you tell i liked this one

Also i think everyone on tumblr knows this one, but Good Omens. Obviously not a horror show like the others, and the "bad angels who are meant to only do god's will" thing is taken much more lightly here, but still worthy of inclusion imo. The book and the series are different, but not hugely. Humorous take on the apocalypse, and a demon and an angel who've been watching over earth for 6000 years and have decided actually, they like earth, and they dont want it to explode because heaven and hell are actually full of pricks and they dont want to deal with them, theyre too busy enjoying earth. so they decide to stop the apocalypse. they're not very good and it all goes a bit wrong a few times.

Final "religious themes" rec is Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, who also cowrote good omens and it's not actually about christian religion or angels but I think it's worth a mention because it's about a young monk called Brutha who is training in the city of Omnia, a religious city state on the Discworld that is devoted solely to the worship of the Great God Om. The church of Om run the entire city and everyone is a believer, the church is ultimately powerful, and everyone lives in fear of upsetting the church. And then the Great God Om is dropped from the sky from the talons of an eagle, and lands in a garden in the main church citadel - because he's a tortoise. He's been stuck in the form of a tortoise for years because he has no power anymore, because in Pratchett's discworld, there are many many gods and they only have power if someone believes in them. Om has just one believer - Brutha. Brutha is the only person in the ENTIRE CITY who actually believes in the god they claim to worship - the rest just believe in the system, in the religion and in oppression, because that's very real. Brutha knows more about Omnian religion than Om does, because to say Om was an absentee god is putting it mildly. it was the first discworld book i read and it's what got me into the series, it's absolutely great. Also really, really funny as well as reorients your worldview a bit. Pratchett is good at that

okay i need to stop, I have work in the morning, but hopefully this enormous wall of text wasn't too much for you!