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 ...
Self assured, sane AND intelligent people are, unfortunately,a small subset of the overall population.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the General Public.
(80’s joke: F*ck ‘the General Public’ - I liked ‘the English Beat’)
As others noted, conservative books also hit #1 - much to the annoyance of those who would have any hope of inflicting "a political angle" against it.
I heard somewhere that Padre Pio listed curiosity as the most prevalent and dangerous modern sin.
If you are unfamiliar with the work, here is an audio excerpt ....
... as read by Gilbert Gottfried:
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/05/18/fifty-shades-of-grey-gilbert-gottfried-video/
Yeah, I can just see trying to buffalo Saint Peter at the gate with those excuses.
I am a woman and I for sure do not crave any of that raunchy stuff. I find nothing erotic or seductive about being treated like a cringing slut.
I am a daughter of the most High God and my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. In marriage I share my full self with my husband and believe me all is good in the consummation part. No need to debase myself for thrills.
Fanfic is a wonderful tool to learn something about writing - I call it “training wheels”. If you don’t ever take the training wheels off you won’t get anywhere.
I have no intention of dredging up any of my old fanfics to try to cash in as original pieces. My original stories are so much better. But apparently this book is filling some sort of niche, appealing to some sort of appetites. Not the sort of appetite I want to appeal to so I really don’t care.
“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?”
As I said in an earlier post, this is done to push conservative books downwards. And they’ve done a good job of it all of a sudden, and a lot of us seem to WANT TO BELIEVE there is no “secret liberal cabal”.
Interesting, isn’t it?
A lot of big books ARE advertised in advance.
And as far as bad reviews in advance.... Look at the hundreds of bad “reviews” that magically appear months in advance of any conservative book.
I’m not buying the “innocent” four-book first place bonanza.
Does he explain why it is a sin?
Yeah, books written by well known authors who have a track record and the companies need to get the word out to sell books to pay those big fees....this woman was unknown just as the woman who wrote the Twilight series and the woman who wrote Harry Potter. None of those books were advertised at first..only advertised big when the first ones were a hit.
That is one funny painting!
my book club read this book last month due to its “popularity”, i knew nothing of the book prior to purchasing it...some of our group refused to read past the first few chapters not so much because of the content, rather the writing was so POOR...the conclusion we all came to when considering the book was that it is a classic example of a successful “marketing” campaign by a publisher, nothing more. I agreed with the general consensus of our book “review”...it IS one of the most poorly written books I have read in a very long time. The sentence structure and flow was tough to slog through...on the positive side...I highly suggest “In the Garden Of Beasts” if you appreciate historical fiction.
In this case, the idea would be, “Sure, I have a bunch of things I should be doing, and I know this is just some stupid softcore S&M novel, but still.... there must be something to it, if it’s so popular. I think I’ll check it out.”
At best, it’s a waste of precious time, and the act of reading it increases one’s tolerance of vice.
Curiosity:
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3167.htm
I enjoyed reading your post but it infuriated my 14 year old daughter. Writing stories on www.fanfiction.net is her hobby these days. I think the stories are stupid but I am glad she enjoys writing. She took the ACT in 7th grade and scored high enough in English to get state recognition.
I have a 79 year old friend that keeps talking abut it. After I read the review at Amazon I decided I was not interested.
I don’t understand why any self assured, sane, and intelligent woman would be entranced by such filth.
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Ditto!
At 14, writing fanfic is a wonderful way to learn to write. I wrote fanfic til I was about 17. The next 12 years I spent practicing writing original stuff.
Does your daughter know about National Novel Writing Month? She should look into it (google NaNoWriMo), it’s a ton of fun. I’ve done it ten years running.
I have a 79 year old friend that keeps talking abut it. After I read the review at Amazon I decided I was not interested.
Was he talking about this book, or curiosity in general?
She has never heard of “National Novel Writing Month”.
Thanks for the info.
As you say, the appetites that both fanfic and fan art generally accomodate aren't particularly highbrow. I did fanfic for my consumption, but a sample art order went something like "Sailor Jupiter in her Sailor costume flashing pink panties and give her like a DDD-sized chest...er, make that EEE...actually, how big can you make her?" (At this point I thumb through my portfolio for the image that my wife used to call "beach balls girl.") "Awesome!! Just like her, only bigger!"
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