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

Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

Eh, BDSM culture seems to employ a lot of leather. :p
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

Common TrekBBS obsession: trucks that turn into robots that punch other robots.

50 Shades' readers' obsession: super-rich, smokin' hot people having lots and lots of mind-blowing sex.


... Anyone else feel as though we BBSers just might be on the wrong team here? :p

What about those of us who are obsessed with super-strong, smokin' hot people punching each other and having lots and lots of mind-blowing sex? :)

(edit: Occasional sex with robots is optional)
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

But how much of that shagging is actually seen/described? ;)
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

Topless Robot: where you go for massive amounts of WTF fanfic. There's some there that's downright traumatizing. And there's some that makes you wonder what the author was on.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

I know a couple of women who never read books that have picked up the 1st of these and seem to be really into it.

So it's definitely penetrating (ha) into the population of people who don't normally read, and I thin that has a lot to do with it's success.

I tried reading it out of curiosity and was kind of bored by it.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

I'm not gonna (or want to) argue against BDSM, what consenting people get up I couldn't care less about. But all I'm saying is I have read the book, and it's fairly explicitly stated that Christian Grey gets his rocks off by inflicting pain on women.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

Few women's opinion about the book(s):

EL James' erotic novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, began as a self-published e-book but has gone on to top the bestseller lists.
The story about billionaire businessman Christian Grey's romance with literature student, Anastasia Steele, became the first book to sell more than one million copies on Amazon's Kindle e-reading device and the fastest adult paperback novel to sell one million print copies.
BBC News joined the Camden Girls Book Group at their regular meeting at Drink Shop & Do in London to get their take on the book:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18972630

 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

I find it odd that there are age limits on games, but there a young girls buying this book.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

"Puts the 'B' in to Anal" is a cover quote if I ever saw one.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

Who's reading this?

Maybe you need to listen to it instead:
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA[/yt]
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

Who's reading this?

Maybe you need to listen to it instead:


If I had that audio version I might just be able to get through this book instead of giving up reading just a few pages of the Amazon Look Inside feature.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

I have managed to finish the 1st book, but I don't think I can make it though the other two.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

http://www.examiner.com/article/fifty-shades-of-grey-tops-harry-potter-as-fastest-selling-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?

Twilight and Stephenie Meyer could have the last laugh though if only because this series was actually a Twilight fanfic published FREE on fanfiction.net a few years ago. Christian and Ana were Edward and Bella.
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

^ Wait... so '50 Shades' is actually... 'My Immortal'?????
 
Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

No :p

It was an extremely popular fanfic named "Master of the Universe" by the same writer (or MOTU in twific parlance). Her moniker as a fanfic writer was "Snowqueens Icedragon".

There was even a YT vid made (the most watched one, at least) by JustBiel that's been since re-uploaded from what I can tell. It was hugely popular with millions of hits at one point:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A1HGsNdays&feature=plcp


And this is the second vid she put up. They were both hugely popular. It doesn't surprise me that 50 Shades is this popular. After MOTU was published, some fans even wanted Pattinson to sign on a MOTU printout, from what I've heard lol. Both Pattinson and Stewart knew about MOTU. It was that popular. I'm not surprised she went to a publisher with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqTAZsnkfh4&feature=relmfu
 
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Re: 50 Shades Of Grey phenomenon? Mommy porn outsells Potter and Twili

My Immortal was Harry Potter. And someone's actually come forward on FF saying he was Tara Gilesbie.
 
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