100 million copies? GOOD LORD!!!!
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
If they think ‘50 Shades’ is worth the ‘stop and think’ button, possibly, those same readers should go back and read, if they have forgotten it, “The Story of O”.
(IMHO, the first story has been re-packaged, the author forgotten, and released as 50 Shades of Grey.)
And, people wonder how the one got elected....
Now, your use of acronyms certainly indicates that YOU have decided this and your other comments on this thread indicate that YOU support this agenda.
So you are saying that in order to fit in with the conservative ideals we need to toe the line and use words like homo, fudge packer and faggot?
Sounds legit./s
Lysistrata. Kama Sutra. de Sade. Etc...
This didn’t start with 50 Shades of Badly Written Tripe.
Maybe the author misunderstood when the defenders of the book claimed to be Christian. Sounds like they might have just been identifying with the character in the book.
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