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In reply to the discussion: Why are Women Devouring Fifty Shades of Grey? [View all]Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)24. that was me, too. it is so poorly written and the plot line is so trite that I was bored.
chapter two and I was snoring
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It is a whole sub-genre - has its own name that I can't quite recall and wont google at work - henta
Warren Stupidity
Jul 2012
#160
"hentai is a kanji compound of "hen;" "change", "weird", or "strange") and "tai;" "attitude" or
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#180
Given the quality of the writing, only Gilbert Gottfried could make it bearable!
backscatter712
Jul 2012
#197
My daughter said she tried to read it as the folks at her office were pushing her to do so
Sherman A1
Jul 2012
#126
It's really not that dramatically different from traditional romance novels.
Withywindle
Jul 2012
#3
And they don't at all like to read stories about rejecting wealth to be with a poor man...
antigone382
Jul 2012
#23
"Hi, I'm a poor man. I'd like to tie you up and humiliate you for my sexual pleasure."
Dreamer Tatum
Jul 2012
#49
Like all those stories about women falling in love with the underdog bandits who kidnap them?
antigone382
Jul 2012
#61
Getting 'ravaged' by a rich guy is at the rock bottom of MY list of fantasies.
Chemisse
Jul 2012
#204
I mean, that was a book by a well-regarded author, that sold lots of copies, and involved dudes
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#196
Did it ever occur to you that people can derive sexual pleasure from being tied up and humiliated?
TheCruces
Jul 2012
#232
That's even better. "I'm so hot, I can reject the rich guy if I want to." n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jul 2012
#63
What then is the reasonable extrapolation of the person playing Grand Theft Auto?
LanternWaste
Jul 2012
#157
Umm...at the end of the Titanic she abandons her family and assumes a new identity...
antigone382
Jul 2012
#164
It's not only boring but the writing style is inferior. It's just a poorly written book. I finished
virgogal
Jul 2012
#33
Everyone keeps telling me to read it and for some reason, I have aboslutely no interest whatsoever.
smirkymonkey
Jul 2012
#214
that was me, too. it is so poorly written and the plot line is so trite that I was bored.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jul 2012
#24
aren't those books a HOOT? it's hard to believe such an elegant lady could come up with them
bedazzled
Jul 2012
#142
Now, you've done it! I'm going to have fantasies about being whipped by Rosie O'Donnell...
LongTomH
Jul 2012
#219
It caters to people's sense of self-doubt as well as their need of escapist lit...
Taverner
Jul 2012
#27
I'd just like to point out: women have been reading "naughty" books for a long time.
Chorophyll
Jul 2012
#36
Maybe for the same reason I read twilight. Yes it was as bad as they say. I read
madmom
Jul 2012
#38
actually i think the people who are into these books are the same ones into crap tv shows
JI7
Jul 2012
#64
Do you think The audience is the same as the people who love Jane Austen? I don't! Nt
adigal
Jul 2012
#136
For me, I love austen, and the horrible writing in these works would make me nuts!
adigal
Jul 2012
#149
Are you parodying the argument that rape porn might mean men actually want to rape women?
antigone382
Jul 2012
#75
Stopped reading at "the sex in Fifty Shades is as cruel and sadistic as in mainstream porn"
opiate69
Jul 2012
#85
Gail Dines is pro-censorship and associated with the Religious Right anti-porn movement
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#92
So you missed the alliance of Andrea Dworkin, Catherine MacKinnon and Ed Meese, then?
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#117
I don't think censorship and teaming up with Theocratic godbags is progressive in any fashion.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#120
"people who have repeatedly praised the words and "science" of Judith Reisman" - if that's
HiPointDem
Jul 2012
#129
If that was "supposed to be about" you, I would have said so. I didn't.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#131
The legislation inferred all sorts of dubious Dworkinite baloney, starting with the axiom that
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#206
I assume you have evidence of this widespread non-consent in porn, then?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#243
I'd never read it. It's perfect for the Kardashian/American Idol crowd tho....
progressivebydesign
Jul 2012
#99
"Nothing wrong with a little kink if that's what floats your boat." ... BLASPHEMY!!!!!!
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#166
Actually, my non-vanilla friends are in a riot of Fifty Shades of Grey.... They can't stand it!
cecilfirefox
Jul 2012
#113
Why do women watch porn all the way to the end? To see if the couple gets married.
mikeytherat
Jul 2012
#132
pr at work. it is crappy writing. it has crappy reviews. it is being bought by how many to only
seabeyond
Jul 2012
#148
I prefer convoluted thrillers where the main character has a fluid sense of identity
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#207
Given the way the books fly out the door at Costco in our very blue area
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#244
Which is why I can be accused of many things, but not duplicity, hypocrisy or disingenuousness.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2012
#247
Most of all the young nurses (and a few of the older ones) are reading it on my floor.
eilen
Jul 2012
#213
She just passed J.K. Rowling as the biggest selling author in Amazon history..
SomethingFishy
Aug 2012
#250
Read it for yourself and see. If you think "popular = well written" then... well...
Zalatix
Aug 2012
#271