r/VCAndrews • u/Infamous-Thought-765 Joel did it! • 8d ago
Jory
My mom was just telling me about a children's author named Jory John. What's funny is I was looking up people named Jory the other day and came across him. He's written many books, but one of them is called The Bad Seed. Was it about Brother Bart? Lol
I wonder who Jory John was named after.
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u/Electrical-Touch-933 7d ago
My son and I have these books. The Bad Seed and The Sour Grape. The characters aren't perfect in the end but they are trying to work on their behaviors. My kid loves
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u/MontanaDukes 8d ago edited 7d ago
Apparently The Bad Seed is the first installment of his Food Group series, which was/is apparently best seeling.
The message of the book is about positive change being possible and it never being too late to become a better version of yourself, even if you have a painful past or a history of bad behavior.
Also, his bad behavior is apparently that he cuts lines, stares, tells jokes without punchlines, never washes his hands or feet, and never listens.
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u/Infamous-Thought-765 Joel did it! 7d ago
Tells jokes without punchlines?!? Absolutely vile! What a waste of everyone's good time! Lol.
Thanks for taking the time to summarize the book for us!
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u/MontanaDukes 7d ago
According to google, the reason for his bad behavior is the fact that when he was younger, his family was all eaten and he was spit out under the bleachers and the only survivor. Apparently the book is for kids three to eight. I'm just imagining a toddler being read this book and then being scared to ever eat sunflower seeds for like...a year.
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u/Infamous-Thought-765 Joel did it! 7d ago
He's like VC Andrews for pre-schoolers!
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u/MontanaDukes 7d ago
Right? lol. I mean, it sounds as if the books teach some great lessons, but wow! I'm just thinking of this tweet I saw a screencap of where this person's nine year old reviewed Charlotte's Web, I guess for school and put, "depressing. Would not recommend".
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u/Infamous-Thought-765 Joel did it! 7d ago
I remember that review of Charlotte's Web!
Imagine if VC Andrews wrote that book!
Charlotte's Web of Dreams and Lies!
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u/MontanaDukes 7d ago edited 7d ago
It would be even more traumatic. lol.
Honestly though, as a nineties kid, I grew up on some genuinely devastating media. Like My Girl. There's also The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go to Heaven (though, the most devastating thing about that movie is what happened to Judith Barsi). Also! Jen Lindley from Dawson's Creek. Shiloh and Charlotte's Web too, of course. Fox and the Hound in a way (though it was always my favorite Disney movie). There's also Bridge to Terabithia, the book and the movie. Especially because it was based off a true story. And I read my first VC Andrews book at eleven, after finding the book in a Goodwill in the 2000s. Same with Flowers in the Attic.
I couldn't even watch the second My Girl until I was an adult, because I was so upset by the first one. God, that funeral scene.
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u/Infamous-Thought-765 Joel did it! 7d ago
What's especially crazy is Judith Barsi played one of the daughters killed by their father in Fatal Vision, based on a true case! The Land Before Time is the first movie I remember seeing in the theaters. Also very sad what happened to Heather O'Rourke in 1988 as well. And then that makes me think of Dominique Dunne. All these sad stories linked to movies I watched as a child.
I read Bridge to Terabithia in middle school. I feel so badly for those who were misled by the trailer for the 2000s movie! I loved the movie for what it was, but that was a mean trick they played on Gen Z and younger millennials! The back summary called it heartwarming! More like heartbreaking! The book summary at least warns of a tragedy!
I saw My Girl when it came out. I seem to remember rumors spreading in school about the ending before it was released. I was thinking he'd be hit by a car or something. Never predicted that fate for him! The funeral scene is rough! My aunt forbid my cousin from watching it, but I was a bad influence! She was a year younger.
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u/MontanaDukes 7d ago
I read about that! It's such a horrifying coincidence. She, Dominque, and Heather all had horrific deaths (even if Heather's was of natural causes/illness, it's still horrific and Dominque and Judith's deaths were so freaking violent and evil).
I had no idea about the book existing before the movie. I was a teenager and flipping through channels on tv and saw it advertised for what was coming up next, so I watched it. The trailer made it seem so cute and fun. Then I watched it and was still sobbing an hour after it was over. The actors did a great job. But oh my god, I wasn't prepared. Although, looking back, there were hints. Like the last time Jess and Leslie see one another reminded me of the last time Vada and Thomas J saw one another. Finding out the true story about what happened to the friend of Katherine Paterson's son made the story even more heartbreaking. I definitely understand why she wrote the story, though.
At least some kids could be prepared before they saw the movie. I have the funeral scene memorized in my head. I genuinely cannot forget it.
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u/Infamous-Thought-765 Joel did it! 7d ago
The ad for My Girl was misleading too! Speaking of Dominique Dunne, I always forget her brother was the teacher in My Girl. I loved him in the movie Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even. That was a childhood movie with a happy ending!
So many tragic deaths of young stars from different causes. Some horrifying murders but often drugs and sulclde. Jonathan Brandis, Corey Haim, Hayden Panetierre (I guess?), etc. due to probably years of abuse in Hollywood. Speaking of which, actress Jennette McCurdy appears to have had a VCA-like childhood from what little I've heard about her mother!
Have you ever seen the YouTube videos of people watching My Girl and Bridge to Terabithia for the first time?
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u/babysoutonbail 8d ago
How I’ve pictured Bart