50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twilight

[Deckerd]

I like your niece.

[Bob The Skutter]

^She loves the Twilight series...

[Deckerd]

Is that the one who dragged you along to the fims? She's entitled to like them, she was a pre-16 year-old.

[Bob The Skutter]

^Indeed it is. And I think it's mostly cos she fancies what's his face?

[Ethros]

I want the audiobook version read by Gilbert Gottfried

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA

[Peach Wookiee]

I'm checking this out at the library when I get a chance. I want to see if this Bella is more interesting.

[Dream]

Man Assaults Girlfriend with Steak Sauce over ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

A British man was charged with assault for his attempt to stop his girlfriend from reading the sexy bestseller.

While the erotic trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey has been credited with arousing the passions of millions of women around the world, for one British man, it only aroused his wrath.

When Emma McCormick, of Carlisle, UK, read aloud passages from her copy of Fifty Shades to her long-term boyfriend Raymond Hodgson, he wasn’t thrilled about hearing McCormick narrate the book’s racy scenes of bondage and seduction. Hodgson, 31, later told authorities that he thought the book was “pornographic” and “distasteful” and didn’t feel it was appropriate for McCormick to read it. He was so bothered, he drove to McCormick’s home the following day and, armed with a bottle of steak sauce, resumed the argument. The fight escalated until Hodgson pulled out the bottle and squirted it in McCormick’s face. He reportedly said he wanted to show her what ‘saucy’ really meant.

Yikes!

[Ethros]

Well if women really like 50 Shades so much, shouldn't they like men who beat them?


Explains why Chris Brown is still popular.

[Bob The Skutter]

Shame Hermiod isn't around to let us all know that people don't understand BDSM.

[cardinal biggles]

Peach Wookiee wrote:

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I'm checking this out at the library when I get a chance. I want to see if this Bella is more interesting.

She's actually more irritating.

Dream wrote:

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Man Assaults Girlfriend with Steak Sauce over ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Yikes!

I read that yesterday. Some folks were making some great food-related puns.

Bob the Skutter wrote:

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Shame Hermiod isn't around to let us all know that people don't understand BDSM.

You owe me a new keyboard.

I read all three books in the Fifty Shades trilogy, and they were awful. AWFUL. It had nothing to do with the sex, but the writing itself. Clichéd characters, repetitive writing (I wanted to stab myself every time ELJ mentioned Ana's "inner goddess," who is basically an irritating shoulder angel with a closetful of costumes and props), all spiced up with just enough BDSM to make people pay attention and hopefully forget that right under the surface it's Yet Another Hackneyed Girl-Saves-Self-Destructive-Guy-From-Himself Story. Not worth your time or your money. I wish I could get both of mine back.

[MacLeod]

Dream wrote:

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http://www.examiner.com/article/fift...ling-book-ever

This is the first time I've heard of this. Apparently these books, starting with 50 Shades of Grey, have become the next book phenomenon and holds the title of fastest-selling novel beating Harry Potter and Twilight. They are now even going to be turned into movies.

I can understand Harry Potter and Twilight getting popular. One has a boy learning he is a wizard and going to a magic school, while the other has a vampire and a teenage girl falling in love with each other.

But this? I glanced at the plot of the first book it looks like it is just romance with a bunch of BDSM sex. Amusingly this series started out as Twilight fan fiction.

How did these books get so huge? Has anyone here read them or seen others reading these books?

Note the article says Paperback, books like Harry Potter where sold in Hardback as well. A quick websearch puts the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as selling 11 million copies in the first 24hrs. (8.3 US & 2.7m UK).

[Crusher Disciple]

I've got my own perspective on this. I enjoy reading and writing erotica. And any time an erotic novel gets some attention from the mainstream, that's good news for me. That means I'll have an audience.

And I've been surprised at how many different kinds and ages of women who admit that they've read the books. I think it's more than women being lonely and unfulfilled. I think it's more that they're willing to explore other facets of their sexuality, which is never a bad thing IMO.

FPAlpha wrote:

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Middle aged women who seek the perfect relationship/sex and apparently get it.. wish fulfilment fantasy at its best. Just the target demographic has switched from kids/teenagers to middle aged women.

Well, they might as well have something targeted towards them. Hollywood ignores them and goes after the 17-34 male demographic.

cardinal biggles wrote:

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I read all three books in the Fifty Shades trilogy, and they were awful. AWFUL. It had nothing to do with the sex, but the writing itself. Clichéd characters, repetitive writing (I wanted to stab myself every time ELJ mentioned Ana's "inner goddess," who is basically an irritating shoulder angel with a closetful of costumes and props), all spiced up with just enough BDSM to make people pay attention and hopefully forget that right under the surface it's Yet Another Hackneyed Girl-Saves-Self-Destructive-Guy-From-Himself Story. Not worth your time or your money. I wish I could get both of mine back.

Yeah, the inner goddess thing is annoying. Just say she's conflicted, for chrissake!

[FPAlpha]

Crusher Disciple wrote:

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Well, they might as well have something targeted towards them. Hollywood ignores them and goes after the 17-34 male demographic.

Which is why the box office will explode as soon as it hits theatres and studios will scramble to get their hands on any similar themed story they can make into movies.. i guess it could be one of the next series of movie hits in about 2-3 years.

[JarodRussell]

Dream wrote:

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How did these books get so huge?

I'm getting very skeptical about these magical blockbuster book sales lately.

There have been cases of music labels buying their own CDs just to get them into the top ten to create buzz. Then I guess the larger the buzz, the more some film studio is willing to pay for the rights. And if the book is turned into a film or not is then not really that important anymore to the publisher.

[RoJoHen]

So, I don't know much about this series, but is this the kind of thing that have mass-market appeal as a film series? It seems geared heavily toward adult women; just how graphic is the story, and can it be given a PG-13 rating without being ruined?