Suffragette1 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Yep, just like the success of Harry Potter proves that all children want to be the orphaned child of murdered parents! And the success of the Twilight series that most women want to shack up with a vampire and become one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Congratulations. You win non-sequitur AND laboured pun of the week. Great! Many thanks. How does one follow a non-sequitur, though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffragette1 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Kind of interesting how this book is perceived by people. The ones who are against it seem to fall into three camps. Firstly there are the ones who just think its a badly written book. Which is fair enough. Everyones got an opinion. Then there are people who are disappointed its not filthier. Which again could be seen as either a failure on the part of the author or that the reader needs something more than "erotica"! Then theres a smaller third camp which seems to be the anti-characters camp and just doesn't like one or the other of the main people in the book for whatever reason. I can't help feeling though that this overwhelming dislike is because its popular. If it had sold 9 copies people wouldn't care nearly as much. It seems people are going really overboard to dislike a fairly innocuous book I dislike it for all 3 of the above. I have nothing wrong with popular fiction. I love Harry Potter, for example. I also do not think that it is innocuous, it is disturbing on many levels, as I have highlighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffragette1 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 It has some horrific reviews on amazon, seems its either loved or hated. Here's a couple that I particularly like: Oh My, I mean really, Oh my, oh my, oh my......No readers, I have not just been whipped (pardon the pun) into a bosom heaving wreck by the size of my partner's "impressive length". I have in fact, just dragged myself through to the final page of this ludicrous nonsense and found myself almost speechless. Almost... The main character, Christian Grey, is quite obviously deranged. This does not however, deter Ana, who for some inexplicable reason, has spent so long with her head in a book that she has never looked in a mirror and noticed that she is a "total babe". A "total babe" who also happens to be a 21 year old virgin. No, Ana, in the space of 3 weeks, falls so crazily in love with "Mr Grey" that she manages to bypass the whole deranged thing and instead concentrates all her efforts on a) going from virgin to porn star faster than Hussain Bolt off the blocks and b) deciding whether to let him hit her with stuff. As you do. As for Mr Grey, obviously, readers can't be allowed to see him as simply a deranged, manipulative psycho so let's give him smouldering good looks, a few zillion quid to throw around and hey, and this is the clincher, the ability to love art and music (y'know, like Nazi's do in the war films). (Note - the bit where he plays the "haunting" piano piece, semi naked, with his eyes closed actually made me laugh so much that I almost wet myself - in a non-orgasmic way. Check it out....enjoy! ). As if that wasn't enough he also has a personal and financial interest in saving the world from famine. Just that old world peace and cancer to sort out and then hey, job's a good `un. I mean really, how did the world ever shamble along without him? So what made this beautiful, charismatic and talented man so brutal? Could it be a traumatic childhood perhaps? Why, yes I think it could...yaaaaawn.... So, the 2 beautiful people come together (Oh my, another pun) and the rest of the book is basically about Ana wondering if she should let him hit her with stuff and then letting him hit her with stuff and Mr Grey wondering if he should stop hitting her with stuff but still hitting her with stuff while she whines on about wanting "more" love and less of the hitting stuff and he whines on about how he doesn't know how to give "more" cos he has only ever hit people with stuff. In between these nonsensical blatherings they have lots of sex, which, like piano playing, speaking foreign languages and making zillions of quid, he possesses boundless expertise. Obviously. Luckily, virginal Ana also has her "inner Goddess" to guide her on the art of sex play and soon becomes an orgasm machine, chucking them out all over the place in a rampant, fevered haze of lust. So much so that she overlooks Mr Grey's general bastardry and bends over nicely for a few beatings. She is also too enraptured to take much notice his incessant stalking, which would have got lesser men arrested. Oh, and his `feeder' tendencies that, if successful, would have surely added a good 10 stone onto Ana's lovely buttocks which in turn would have incurred the cost of a refurb' to the `red room of pain' when his ceiling shackles needed reinforcing. Luckily he can afford it. As many other readers have noted, the writing is appallingly poor and, if you removed the sex bits, would resemble a love struck teenager's diary. It's all been said before so I won't dwell on it. I will just say, if you are looking for erotic fiction, look elsewhere, if you are looking for an unintentionally laugh out loud bit of fluff and nonsense then crack open a bottle, put your feet up and prepare to be amused. Personally I would just say that there goes a day of my life that I will never get back. Oh my! and So I was thinking that we could all get some actual value from the terrible mistake we made in buying/borrowing this stinking pile of literary manure by turning it into a drinking game. Basically every time irritatingly vapid dishcloth Ana says/thinks/does/has any of the following, you have to drink: Biting lip Rolling eyes Foil packet Oh my Holy crap Inner goddess Darkening eyes Shattering Blushing If you are not totally mullered by the end of the first chapter, keep drinking until you no longer want to slap Ana - at least one thing I agree with the monumentally pompous Christian on is that she needs a good kicking. The other added benefit of being this drunk is that it wont hurt when you sew up your genitalia to avoid ever having sex this crushingly boring and lacking in genuine eroticism. The winner is the person who can actually find me a stunningly attractive 21 year old virgin (obvs minus the kind of religious background/chastity pledge which would have prevented her from taking part in the snorefest shag-a-thon) and there's a special prize if you can find a unicorn too. I think that the polarised views depend very much on the personal experiences and politics of the reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppins Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 I forgot I started this thread but didn't post on it I have no intentions of reading this book, just wondered how many people did, sounds like its become very popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bypassblade Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 is it a porn book, or vampire or something like that, I really have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffragette1 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 is it a porn book, or vampire or something like that, I really have no idea. After having read this thread, the links and surely reviews in the press, you seriously do not know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackLakeland Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Come on ladies you can't all be that frustrated that you have to get your kicks from a book?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootsBooster Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Come on ladies you can't all be that frustrated that you have to get your kicks from a book?... I heard a rumour that some men have read it too, can you imagine that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackLakeland Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I heard a rumour that some men have read it too, can you imagine that!! Soft whimps. Now wonder the women are frustrated if they have a bloke like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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