Is Flowers In The Attic A Banned Book

Flowers in the attic touches on a few taboo subjects such as child abuse and incest and because of its controversial nature it has at times been banned in certain parts of the world.

Is flowers in the attic a banned book. When i worked in south africa black beauty was banned catcher in the rye adventures of huckleberry finn flowers in the attic fahrenheit 451. But neither the incest nor the distasteful sleazification of the storyline of the diary of anne frank is the most disturbing thing about flowers in the attic. It was banned from many schools and. Flowers in the attic was petitioned by many parents as soon as the book was published.

Nonetheless the official v. Offensive passages concerning incest and sexual intercourse. The parents wanted it remove from school libraries. What the new flowers in the attic book gets completely wrong.

This book was banned from school libraries in rhode island and washington along with many other schools. Flowers in the attic a truly lurid tale of incest mommy and daddy issues religious fanaticism and murder is my personal bad book. Andrews books but flowers in the attic is one which i could never quite bring myself to be interested in. There once were rumors that the book is part non fiction base on a situation of a relative to v c andrews where a boy and his siblings were locked in an attic in order to ensure an inheritance.

How the embossed cover with its peekaboo keyhole felt underneath my tweeny fingers. Flowers in the attic not surprisingly hit the banned books list many times due to topics of incest. Andrews s bestselling flowers in the attic saga has been enjoyed by millions of readers for more than thirty years. Andrews website claims to have contacted one of andrews relatives.

In flowers in the attic and petals on the wind chris cathy cory and carrie had the perfect lives until a tragic accident changed everything. This unidentified relative claimed flowers in the attic was loosely based on a faintly similar account. The dialogue is horrendous. For many years there was no evidence to support this claim and the book was passed off as fiction.

It caused quite a stir as it revolved around child abuse incest and the demonizing of religion. For personal reasons i was disturbed by the infamous incest subplot that the book has and the story always sounded very odd to me. Now all five books are available together in this new collection. That dishonor belongs to the dialogue.