Shades of Grey

[Dino Velvet]

No wonder you and Dino get along so famously...

You know he's Tony Randall, right? Bad enough I gotta be Quincy.

[Wendy Summers]

You know he's Tony Randall, right? Bad enough I gotta be Quincy.

Yep - strangely I tolerate both of you...

[Dino Velvet]

Yep - strangely I tolerate both of you...

Your mind must be very open and vast to tolerate both of us at the same time.

[reformedcharacter]

typical example of how packaging can make an otherwise unremarkable book into a best seller

before clit lit became popular there was a trend in chick lit a few years ago where if the cover in certain style it was guaranteed to be a best seller.

I swear if they had repackaged Das Kapital with a stick woman with a handbag on the cover and the title in quirky letters it would have sold by the bucket load

[bassman2546]

Thought this might be a Sasha Grey thread. Dang.

[Dino Velvet]

Thought this might be a Sasha Grey thread. Dang.

I thought it would be about Spaghetti Westerns.

[GrimFusion]

I agree with Prospero. It's a poorly written porn novel. I'm just a little surprised at the number of women I've seen reading it or discussing the book publicly. I'm all for sexual liberation, but screw this double-standard. If men are often chastised and disciplined as deviants for browsing through porn in public, then why should women be allowed to wet down bus seats and park benches doing the same shit?

I'd understand if there were some kind of intelligible merit to reading 50 Shades of Grey, but E.L. James has the writing prowess of a 14-year-old. There's simply nothing enriching about a story in which a millionaire fucks his sex slave over and over. In fact, the message the book seems to put across actively conflicts with the views most feminists and women's liberation activists have been fighting against for generations.

There's nothing wrong with smut, but if I can't walk out in public with a porn magazine in-hand without causing some kind of social taboo, 50 Shades fans can keep that shit in the bedroom where it belongs.

[Wendy Summers]

Your mind must be very open and vast to tolerate both of us at the same time.

It's not my mind that has to be vast to accomodate both of you.

[Wendy Summers]

typical example of how packaging can make an otherwise unremarkable book into a best seller

before clit lit became popular there was a trend in chick lit a few years ago where if the cover in certain style it was guaranteed to be a best seller.

I swear if they had repackaged Das Kapital with a stick woman with a handbag on the cover and the title in quirky letters it would have sold by the bucket load

I call bullshit. If that was the case Mein Kampf would have the same sales as Fifty Shades of Grey - same basic style. They're both full of bullshit too

[Wendy Summers]

I agree with Prospero. It's a poorly written porn novel. I'm just a little surprised at the number of women I've seen reading it or discussing the book publicly. I'm all for sexual liberation, but screw this double-standard. If men are often chastised and disciplined as deviants for browsing through porn in public, then why should women be allowed to wet down bus seats and park benches doing the same shit?

I'd understand if there were some kind of intelligible merit to reading 50 Shades of Grey, but E.L. James has the writing prowess of a 14-year-old. There's simply nothing enriching about a story in which a millionaire fucks his sex slave over and over. In fact, the message the book seems to put across actively conflicts with the views most feminists and women's liberation activists have been fighting against for generations.

There's nothing wrong with smut, but if I can't walk out in public with a porn magazine in-hand without causing some kind of social taboo, 50 Shades fans can keep that shit in the bedroom where it belongs.

See you don't get the book... it's about how a Vanilla girl reaches the power hungry corporate hunk who needs to learn how to love.