My wife read it a while ago. She said it was overrated and overhyped.
Absolutely - Hollywood loves this kind of free advertising.
My neighbor and I loan each other books-she loaned me 50 Shades in exchange for Bernard Cornwell’s Empty Throne, which like so many of his books is long on history, short on romance, and the sex and violence are pretty raw, as it was in that time.
After reading less than half of 50 shades, I found the sex less than sexy-and as someone who believes women and men are equals, I found the male character obnoxious in the way he treated the female character as a possession and lesser person. The female character was a clueless idiot to allow herself to be objectified in that way. It was a stupid book, but not even close to what I consider “porn...
Smut!
Give me smut and nothing but!
A dirty novel I can’t shut
If it’s uncut
And unsubt-le.
I’ve never quibbled
If it was ribald.
I would devour
Where others merely nibbled.
As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
“To be smut
It must be ut-
Terly without redeeming social importance.”
Por-
Nographic pictures I adore.
Indecent magazines galore,
I like them more
If they’re hardcore.
Bring on the obscene movies, murals, postcards, neckties, samplers, stained
Glass windows, tattoos, anything!
More, more, I’m still not satisfied!
Stories of tortures
Used by debauchers
Lurid, licentious and vile,
Make me smile.
Novels that pander
To my taste for candor
Give me a pleasure sublime.
Let’s face it I love slime!
Old books can be indecent books,
Though recent books are bolder.
For filth, I’m glad to say,
Is in the mind of the beholder.
When correctly viewed,
Everything is lewd.
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
And the Wizard of Oz - there’s a dirty old man!
I thrill
To any book like Fanny Hill,
And I suppose I always will
If it is swill
And really fil-thy.
Who needs a hobby like tennis or philately?
I’ve got a hobby: rereading Lady Chatterley.
But now they’re trying to take it all away from us unless
We take a stand, and hand in hand we fight for freedom of the press.
In other words: Smut! I love it.
Ah, the adventures of a slut.
Oh, I’m a market they can’t glut.
I don’t know what
Compares with smut.
Hip, hip, hooray!
Let’s hear it for the Supreme Court!
Don’t let them take it away!
When I went to see “Gone Girl” in a movie theatre, the “Fifty Shades” trailer came on. The theatre was full and I was sitting toward the back so I could see everyone as they watched. It was hilarious! Everyone was perfectly still while the trailer was on and then there was TOTAL SILENCE when it ended. TOTAL SILENCE!!! Nobody moved until the next trailer came on and everyone relaxed. It will be interesting to see if people actually show up to the theatre or if they’ll wait until it comes out on DVD.