I don’t get the 50 shades thing or the Twilight series either.
Thank you for posting this. My friends were recommending this and I thought it was just a more graphic romance novel. Now I know that I WILL NOT be buying this book.
The book is based on not just a story that was pulled from a website... it was a Twilight Fan Fiction. The names were changed for the 50 shades release.
Makes sense now, doesn’t it ?
Also, the book is meant to gauge control factors in the population. It seems that role-models are gone, and now it’s all about glorifying submission.
I don’t think it will be on my reading list anytime soon.
I will be glad when the hype about this stupid book is over......It appears bored housewives aren’t the only people to be reading it either seems it’s a big hit with teen girls.
I work with mostly women and they talk about it in the break room quite often.
No kidding, the women who dig this stuff are Obama voters for sure!
It may be hard to swallow Rush, but I'd bet Hillary did plenty of submitting to land her Bubba.
Thank you and thank Rush and Katherine from sparing me..I have friends who devour romance novels. Not for me...I’ve read some tolerable stuff they gave me, like Nora Roberts to pass the hours when I was taking care of my mother. This doesn’t sound like ‘it.’.
In fact the only really good ‘chick book’ series (if you want to call it that) that I have read were the “Clan of the Cave Bear” series by Jean Auel. They were outstanding.
Michelle Obama is reading the 57 Shades of Grey
...or so I’ve heard.
I have a friend who read the trilogy. She has become obsessed with it. She talks about Christian Grey like he really exists. She ran out and bought gray and blue contact lenses so she and her husband can role play as the characters from the book. She now wants a pair of silver ben-wa balls that apparently figure prominently in the book. And all I can think is why in the world would you find a mental case like this guy appealing in any way, shape or form and fantasize about a sexual relationship based on mutual degradation? Gross!
To be honest ..... I don't understand what all the hype is about a bunch of paint brochures and swatches!!!!
There are many women who like “bad boys”.
There is a reason prominent convicted murderers get multiple solicitations while serving a life sentence.
Some are women with “daddy issues” stemming from our single parent, divorced culture. They want a man who is their father and master.
The popularity of this book is all easily explained and understood as appealing to a subculture and something subconscious in many women, even if they do not openly admit it or realize it.
Unfortunately, the popularity of the book will expand and extend this subculture to the conscious level. Expect S&M clubs and domination to rise from the shadows (where it exists today) to something that MUST be accepted (so we will be told).
I tried to read it. The story was so insipid that I couldn’t get past the half way point.
My wife, who writes for a living, could not get passed ten pages.
Our good friend, who is an author—like she gets paid a lot to write—said she couldn’t get past page three.
I think all of us like sex. But, reading poorly written porn is simply absurd. If I wanted that, I could have read Penthouse forum. At least that has pictures.
It isn't a romance book.
It is not about love, nothing of the sort
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Next you'll be telling me there aren't any vampires in it.
What is this world coming to, anyway?
Yeah, sure, I have friends telling me to read it. But the two turn offs I have heard about it are that it’s poorly written (I have low tolerance for that) and that it’s about s&m and I am just very not interested. Nothing I have heard from these swooning friends makes me want to get it. To each their own.