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That article looks good, too. If The Guardian lets me read it.
Her mother sounds like a bad parent from a question in Reddit's AITA forum...
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Disclosure: I didn’t read and love the books as a girl and when I read the first later on out of curiosity, I thought it was both dreadful and disgusting. That said, the biography sounds both sympathetic and reasonable; I can’t imagine that a fan wouldn’t gobble it up. But it also has to be noted that the biographer made a very good thing out of writing as Andrews; that’s a ridiculous number of follow-on books.
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From what I have read, VCA originally sent her publisher a much longer original manuscript. Her editor's response was "Wow, this is going to be huge!" but also "I'm going to cut this up." So I don't know how much of the book is the original and how much of it was mucked up by the editor.
I loved the books when I was younger -- and then kind of gave up after My Sweet Audrina. (Perhaps the world's most naive heroine?) When I reread Flowers in the Attic a couple of years ago, I was amazed by how bad some of the sentences were and yet how wonderful some of the actual writing was. So maybe it really does show the heavy hand of an editor.
And yeah, he has had quite a lengthy career as her ghostwriter... I think he's more than 80 years old now?! Most of the new series have very little connection to the original books. As prolific as he was earlier on, if he'd continued the original books, at this point, he'd have to start setting them in space.
