50 Shades of WTF?!
Jun. 20th, 2012 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hippie_chick
Okay so it would appear that the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy of books (or is it just the first one?) is the fastest selling paper back of all time. Even beat out Harry Potter! Though, to be fair most HP fans bought the hard back editions the second they came out so yeah. *shrug*
The last time I wrote about these books, libraries in Brevard County here in Florida had banned them due to the content. I understand that ban has since been lifted. Anyway, I'm just still not understanding why this is being lapped up like a kitten to a dish of milk? I started the first book and it was so bad. It read like a bad Harlequin Romance novel.
People are acting like erotica never existed before, like this is some huge epiphany! Ladies, get out there and find some decent erotica to read! I'm also hearing that Mark Wahlberg is pretty much securing the movie rights? MOVIE? Oh no, please spare us all. But I'm sure the theaters will fill up nonetheless. *eyeroll*
As an amusing aside, since this was based off a Twilight inspired fanfic: Kristen Stewart was spotted reading 50 Shades. *nods*
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Date: 2012-06-20 02:26 pm (UTC)This was based off of a fanfic? Really?
I heard about the movie and groaned out loud.
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Date: 2012-06-20 02:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-20 07:20 pm (UTC)Perfect description!
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Date: 2012-06-20 10:13 pm (UTC)Furthermore, I've heard that it deals with BDSM and I can totally believe you when you say it reads like a harlequin novel - a badly written one.
The fact that it's originally a Twilight fanfiction hardly makes it any better..
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Date: 2012-06-21 01:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-24 08:04 am (UTC)On the train ride home the other night, my friend
It. Was. Terrible.
I don't even know how many pages it was, but we counted nearly a dozen uses of the phrase "a ghost of a smile" in that one chapter alone (much like "chagrin" in Twilight, I suppose?), and the guy's eyes "flared," "blazed," "burned," and lord knows what other flammable sorts of things...and THERE WAS NO SEX. No foreplay, even! NOTHING HOT AT ALL. It was boooorrrrring. If Amazon thought that sample would tempt anyone who hasn't already fallen prey, they're sadly misinformed. We did laugh a lot for our hour-long commute, at least. :D
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Date: 2012-06-24 08:07 am (UTC)That's the impression I got from the Kindle sample I read, yeah. It got as far as the lead guy showing up at the hardware store where the supposed heroine (??) works, and he gets her to help him pick out types of ropes to buy and such. If you can read the sample online at Amazon, do it; it'll make you 100% sure you won't want to read the rest!
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Date: 2012-06-24 08:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-06-24 01:47 pm (UTC)I dabble in writing, but I'm not very good, myself. I just do it for fun, and hopefully the more I do it the better I get / more I learn.
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