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Originally Posted by Anchen
Loved this thread. when I lived in the States a couple of years ago, I heard about FITA for the first time - despite having studied world lit for years, I'd never heard of the books.
I really tried to get through the first book, despite the warnings from American friends. I never got to a really scary part, but I could see why it might have some guilty-pleasure quality with the whole sibling incest theme and all, but nothing that I wrote was "horror" as such. Maybe if I'd read it BEFORE my late 20's...
If there was a good movie version made, I'd watch it, but from what I've read they tend to clean them up, which I suppose would make them even less scary than the books and not even have the controversy of the sibling incest theme.
Ah well, thanks for the warning, I'll just wait until someone decides to do it properly. Sibling incest and all. ... Aaaand I'm just going to stop writing the words "sibling incest" now, excuse me...
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Both versions of the first novel included the sexual blossoming between the siblings, and that was hot and all. Just didn't make it remotely scary. Neither did the evil granny. Just made the story dramatic, but none of the versions succeded in making the story actually scary even tho the ingredients were there. But i didn't feel like any of the 2 versions left anything out. So go ahead.
