Posted on 06/27/2012 7:15:22 AM PDT by trailhkr1
Fifty Shades Of Grey has become the number one best-selling Kindle book of all time at Amazon.co.uk, it was revealed today. Despite the trilogy only being published in March this year, the racy international best-sellers - dubbed 'mummy porn' - have sold over one million copies in the online store's Kindle department, while author EL James has become the bestselling author of the year on the site as a whole.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I have not read it and will not read it; I have though heard snippets of it read by Gilbert Godttfried on “You Tube”. Warning it has very explicit language but it is pretty funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA
So you just read the good parts?
On Amazon US, the 3 books occupy the top four spots; 1 through 3 are the individual books, while the 4th spot is for all sold three together.
I don’t understand why any self assured, sane, and intelligent woman would be entranced by such filth.
“On Amazon US, the 3 books occupy the top four spots; 1 through 3 are the individual books, while the 4th spot is for all sold three together.”
Yep, all to push the two big conservative books as far down as possible in any lists.
;-)
This book is about a 26 year old, buff, handsome, billionaire with a large uhum who engages a young girl in bondage, kinky, wild animilistic sex...the kind of sex women claim "eeewww" but deep down love(at times) but just won't admit it. Book sales say's it all.
IOW, the book tells us what kind of sex the author fantasizes about.
Hmm, apparently I’m the only one who believes big book publishing/sales companies, like Big Media, politically manipulate publications, promotions and statistics.
Face it, women love this raunchy sex stuff.. conservative, liberal, rich, poor doesn't matter. Why many women in affairs claim the sex is the best ever because they do stuff with their lovers they never had the courage to ask their husband to do because of social, religious upbringings and don't want to be looked upon as a little s**t by their husbands or boyfriends...but deep down crave it.
Out since 2011 and now SUDDENLY the biggest selling book, all 4 versions including the anthology, “occupy” the top 4 slots, with more complaints about the book than rave reviews, and no one sees a political angle to this?
We know that large numbers of women enjoy fantasies involving their being totally dominated by some Alpha Male (note that the fantasized dominating man in such bodice-rippers is always either super-rich, a nobleman, a pirate captain, or some such, besides being super-buff and handsome. The dominating man is never a pot-bellied plumber). We do not know what percentage of such are "self assured, sane, and intelligent".
Many women like the idea of surrendering control to a hyper-competent man, partly because giving up control means giving up responsibility and accountability.
It is poorly.. Ahem.. VERY poorly written Twilight Fan Fiction. It’s a sorry attempt at ‘shocking romance’ again, base on nothing more than Teiligjt series fan fiction. It is garbage and a waste of time.
Like I said in my prior post, many women desire pleasure without responsibility. Having a man who does what the woman wants without the woman having to ask, and without asking her permission, means she can deny responsibility for it all. It also accounts for all the rape fantasies in such "romance" novels -- "If I was taken against my will, then I'm not responsible, regardless of how much I enjoyed it".
I’ve been seeing it on the Kindle book lists for a long time, but I never bothered with it because I thought it was some kind of book about getting old gracefully (from the title). LOL!
After reading in Jonah Goldberg’s book about Margaret Sanger and the eugenics movement using the promise of sexual pleasure as a political organizing tool to rally women, I think the promotion of this book at this time follows those lines.
Sanger and her cohorts touted sexual pleasure without the constraints of motherhood. They believed that motherhood should be reserved for the worthy, the elite. They actually advocated issuing permits for one child at a time. If you wanted a second child you would have to reapply.
Sanger, herself, was a bad mother. Her youngest child, who Sanger admitted to having neglected, died at age 4 of pneumonia. It was perhaps for this reason that Sanger worked so hard against motherhood.
No secret liberal cabal. If this is a secret liberal plot how do you explain conservative books routinely being in the #1 book selling spot? This happens all the times with books-being printed and taking a while to get popular. Most get popular by word of mouth after a period of time. Most books are not advertised ahead of release like movies.
You left out the most imporant part.
She’s a VIRGIN !!!
You left out the most important part.
She’s a VIRGIN !!!
Interesting nobody has mentioned the “plausible deniability” of the medium. Everyone, approving or not, knows what the book is about. Some people want to read it but not be seen with it; a quick private digital download (wow, that sounds dirty in this context) and it’s available for instant access and instant concealment anywhere. Nothing indicates what’s being read except what’s actually on the easily-changed screen at the moment.
It’s the equivalent of stuffing a socially unacceptable magazine inside a socially acceptable one for reading in public.
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