Who has read 50 Shades of Grey?

[RiffRandell]

Please give me your opinion if you have read it. It's now really popular with the Twilight Moms in my neighborhood, the trilogy is on the New York Times best seller list and all the libraries in my county pulled it from their shelves. The reviews on Amazon are pretty funny.



http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Shades-Grey-Book-Trilogy/dp/0345803485/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337099803&sr=1-1

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Have not read it. Probably won't read it.

Mommy porn, is what they call it. But I'm thrilled that it's taking on. It's just not my kind of genre.

I'm more interested in how the story evolved. Apparently it began as an online writing contest on one of the Twilight websites. Might have even been Stephenie Meyer's. The author kept adding to it and when it got too racy, she had to remove it and posted it on her own website.

Thrilled that these kind of things can happen to someone.

[RevStPatrick]

2. All the ladies at work are reading it now.

Each morning, the office is all atwitter about it.
They tell me I'm not allowed to read it.

On edit - Addendum: Part of why the office is atwitter about this, is because they all know how bad the writing is. Should have mentioned that originally...

[RiffRandell]

3. I don't trust any opinions of the people who raved about it to me.

If I weren't so lazy, I would try and pump out some chick lit to make some money. The shit sells.

[sharp_stick]

4. Just look at the dough

that Nicholas Sparks rolls in. Christ, I think he could pull and Uncle Scrooge and go swimming in the vault.

That guy spews a couple of thousand really bad words onto a page and they're already casting the movie.

[Chan790]

5. You couldn't give me enough money to have my work-output as reviled as Sparks'.

I mean, I love getting paid to write. I'm sure if you went and asked any of the several-dozen other DUers that earn a living as a working writer, they'd also say they love getting paid to write. I doubt too many of them are willing to churn out schlock they know sucks just to get paid more, even a lot more.

There is nothing lonelier or sadder than repressed-talent in favor of commercial-success.

[HappyMe]

6. I haven't read it.

I probably won't. Seems like it would be kind of schlocky.

[Withywindle]

7. I'm reading it now, thanks to some co-workers

who want to have a sort of "book club" talking about how bad it is.

It's not as awful as I thought it would be (knowing that it started out as Twilight fanfiction), but it is totally shlocky. You know, I read a lot of science fiction and fantasy, so I have a pretty well-developed suspension-of-disbelief muscle, and this book strains it way harder than the hokiest space opera. Both the heroine and the hero are completely ridiculous people. Also, there's a lot of stuff in there that's really dumb and offensive about BDSM and its culture in general. For all the supposed kink/titillation factor, it seems pretty tame and trite to me.

And... "subconscious." She keeps using that word. It doesn't mean what she thinks it means. ARGH.

[RiffRandell]

8. Thanks.

I'm going to pass.

[hedgehog]

9. How about the audio version?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Once again, Helen hits it in the middle of the funny bone.

[Yavin4]

13. "Don't Eat The Pancakes"

[Yavin4]

11. Reminds Me of Harold Robbins

I read his books when I was a kid. There was no internet porn.

[RiffRandell]

12. I did too!

My Mom had all of them. Sidney Sheldon too, but they weren't as steamy.

[RebelOne]

14. I read all of his books as a young adult. n/t

[HipChick]

15. I'm about to download the Audio version

[tru]

16. I started it but abandoned it pretty soon.

Creeped me out. I am not into abuse.