Posted on 07/31/2014 1:54:53 PM PDT by Morgana
100 million copies? GOOD LORD!!!!
Yea it’s on the best seller list. I have no idea why. There is not a sodium bicarbonate strong enough for me to handle that book.
As one who has been on dating websites fairly recently, you wouldn’t believe how many women list that book on their profiles as a favorite.
They’re doing a film adaptation, so it will be even more in our faces next year when it’s released.
I haven’t read these books because even what I have read about them has been disgusting. My daughter abandoned a book club that wanted to read one after she took a look at it.
I didn’t realize that the evil person’s name was “Christian.” Wow, how cute is that.
There’s no way anybody Christian should be reading stuff about degradation and submission and torture.
Christ has made us free; Islam enslaves. Maybe these ladies would really be happier in an Islamic book club, where they can read about the joys of brutal mistreatment of women.
Leftist wymmin seem to enjoy defending Mohammadanism. Quite telling.
If we’ve decided that LBGT relationships are none of our business we have absolutely no justification getting in the way of someone elses adult consensual BDSM relationship just because we think its weird and creepy. Frankly most of the anger toward these books is from puritanical feminists who feel every single woman, even all the fictional ones must behave like their idea of an assertive brash dominant ‘real woman’.
“I didn’t realize that the evil person’s name was “Christian.” Wow, how cute is that.”
It’s not how cute that is but how deliberate that is.
The reality is that the whole concept behind this movie is banal and pathetic. Hollywood would never show a truly controversial movie about sex. So you get this nonsense that is silly in its attempts to be suggestive. They did it back in the 1990s with Exit to Eden. Does anyone remember that laughable bomb. It was so bad that it wasn't even unintentionally funny.
The right reaction to these types of movies that hype sexual “edginess” is to call them out as pathetic attempts to market something that isn't there. There is nothing liberating about what the book describes and the movie suggests. Its just boring once the titillation wears off. But for the brief moment that the titillation exists, they are going to try to sucker the public into paying to see it.
From everything I have read it is very badly written rape fantasy and the main character might as well be a child she is so immature. Maybe that is the point.
Isn’t this just another “The Story of O” but with worse writing?
“Frankly most of the anger toward these books is from puritanical feminists who feel every single woman, even all the fictional ones must behave like their idea of an assertive brash dominant ‘real woman’.”
False. Not sure where you made that one up but I assure you, it is grossly incorrect.
Neither my friends or myself are ‘puritanical feminists’ and we all see this ‘story’ as weak and pathetic and NOT because of how we believe real woman should behave. It has to do with common sense and dignity. Nobody gives a flip what you do in your bedroom, we do give a care that such idiotic stories like this land in the hands of very young women.
Read the book, get back to me. The author writes like a 12 year old.
I have no desire to read this porn novel, but I did read Dave Barry’s humorous review of it where he essentially rips the book to shreds: http://time.com/3030375/dave-barry-50-shades-of-grey/
At this site which discusses body language, the expert discusses the actor’s portrayal of the main character whom he describes as a sociopath: http://www.bodylanguagesuccess.com/2014/07/nonverbal-communication-analysis-2895.html
Had no idea what book was about. First time I heard of it was 2 years ago and some wit had referred to 50 Shades of Mitt Romney....and they’re all white. Yuck,yuck. Nothing worse than being white.
Now excuse me, didn't we just experience the Clinton-Lewinsky fiasco?
Same thing, same raunchiness.
Not all books are meant to be empowering tales of virtuous role models for young people just like not all foods are meant as desserts and not all vehicles are meant to drive on the beach. FSG is red meat fantasy for certain women to get horny off of. Thats its purpose, of course you wouldn’t want to bring it into an elementary school classroom or a selfesteem seminar. And you know what? With all the other things we accept...beating each other to a pulp in the ring drinking our guts out and people sawing off their private parts whats so bad about some women are allowed have their fantasies? If you want to protest against moral laxity in general fine, but FSG shouldn’t be the 1000th thing on your list to single out. Oh and don’t fool yourself, feminists are the ones leading the charge against this since they can’t stand that even one single fictitious woman doesn’t behave ‘properly’.
The “book” is based on fan-fic. Fan-fic sites allow users to collaborate on writing more episodes to series which they follow. For example, fans of Twilight wanted more of Edward and Bella after the movies ended so they create Fan-Fic episodes which they all write together but, given the copy right issues with Twilight,they changed the names and settings of the Twilight series from Bella/Edward to NY Billionaire and Christian etc. And so talentless groups of people got together to continue their fantasies. And someone in publishing came along and, realizing that fan-fic was not copyrighted, collected the postings from the website and had it professionally edited and marketed. So the “author” didn’t actually write this...stuff...but collected it and sold it. Obsessed fans worked together to spit up this “gem” of literary success.
crazy
To all those who post before they read for context, I think the 100 million number is attributed to sales of the Bible, the best-selling ‘book’ of all time.
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