NPR on Flowers in the Attic.

Or, well, Gillian Flynn at NPR on Flowers in the Attic:

I'd been a girl who loved fairy tales, but it was never (never, never, never) the princess who interested me. It was the witch. Flowers in the Attic has witches of many stripes: The children's righteous grandmother-slash-jailer has plenty of rules, a generous definition of sin, and a ready whip. But even more enthralling to me was the kids' beautiful, helpless, princess of a mother, who convinces herself by slow, damning turns that she's doing the right thing, and then, overtaken by greed, stops caring whether she's doing the right thing. That's when bad things really start to happen.

The comments, as you can imagine, are quite mixed! Some people reminisce about loving the book while others are completely horrified that NPR would even cover it. So that makes for some pretty entertaining reading, too.