Anyone one else’s partner reading this shite?
I’m a reader. My wife isn’t, however she’s a voracious appetite for this stuff.
Should I read it?
My Mrs recently read it as part of her book group. She said it was pretty shit. Forgetting the content for a moment, the standard of writing is awful and its roots as a piece of Twilight fan fiction are all too obvious.
it's lady-pron. gets them all worked up.
Go with top shelf porn, at least you get to look at the pictures while your misses reads the stories 😉
The missus is reading it at the mo. I've not had any payback from it yet 😛
Mrs Coolhandluke read it, she thought it was badly written, poor story line, weak characters, and not that good as porn unless you're into BDSM.
it's lady-pron. gets them all worked up.
No it's not and no it doesn't. I am so sick of listening to people banging in about this effing book. It's a book for Christ sake. It's kinda like that crap Joseph kony video that went viral, completely annoying. People are sheep. Drives me mad, there are plenty of books of erotica, DVDs/clips on the Internet yet women have 'only just discover pron' because of this stupid book? Get a grip. 😆
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I'm sure there's a demographic of prim and/or proper housewives out there who have embraced this 'pron dressed as romance' with a deep sense of relief..
AFAIK it's just one of those naif service station erotic fiction novels that went viral after a celeb was papped reading it..
it's making an estimated 800k per week in sales, with a movie in the pipeline and two more parts to the (probably very hastily constructed) trilogy..
the power of the intrerwebz 😯
My mam is reading it, she thinks she's rock n roll and keeps trying to embarrass me by getting me to read it when I'm round. Awful!
Mmmmmm, from what I've been told/read about the book, if being beaten as part of a sex act by a man who has a deep desire to harm his mother after his childhood abuse then there are a lot of very confused women out there.
You're right it's not going to do much harm and if it it kick starts a few fantasies and deminished sex lives hats a good thing but it's just a book, it really does not need the attention it's getting. I might spark up a convo about shaving Ryan's privates or Debbie does Dallas next time it comes up 🙂
Edit: why are my sentences not finishing? Stupid phone.
Its the top selling female moisturiser i hear..
Not read it either but the number of women on facebook I went to school with who are a bit heated about it is quite astounding. In some respects if it gets people off then fine.
Everything on telly that is on after 9pm is full of bonking anyhow.
Miss Flees brought the first one home from someone at work and I had a read to see what the fuss was about. I got about half way through the first book then decided that I couldn't care what happens next and closed it. It's easy and fast to read as badly written. If the majority of your reading is OK or Now magazine then you will be at home with it. The much hyped sex seemed to be present only to keep prim virginal types interested in what otherwise a mundane love story. It was like an American mini TV series were producers could see ratings would flag as it was a bit weak so sex scenes were added to keep intrest, the closer to the bone the better (pardon the pun) I have heard there are massive twists but I couldn't keep myself interested long enough to find out as I was busy reading proper books and having real sex.
One for unadventourous housewives who don't read much and want to be seen on the lastest bandwagon.
deluded - Member
Anyone one else’s partner reading this shite?
I’m a reader. My wife isn’t, however she’s a voracious appetite for this stuff.
Should I read it?
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NO! Go out on your bike and come home to the afterparty. I predict a 2013 baby boom.
if being beaten as part of a sex act by a man who has a deep desire to harm his mother
How did you know?
Reviews on tinterwebs! Have read bits about it, curiosity an all that.... it's the base for the whole first book apparently.
Right. My wife has read them. There have been side effects. All is good.
^ this. Second book arrived yesterday and I predict an early night 🙂
read the first couple of chapters.
there are better pieces of fanfiction on the web!!
laughable sex scenes. I think the hype is getting out of hand, everyone is buying it because everyone else is buying it LOL!
I think the hype is getting out of hand, everyone is buying it because everyone else is buying it LOL!
just like harry potter then, if i see more than one prole on the train reading it then it's one to avoid.
there is so much good fiction out there to read, why go near that drivel.
hmmm, not like harry potter!!
HP at least had a story and some characters. comparing it to this shit isn't fair. Twighlight is closer to the mark.
I wonder if there is a fifty shades thread on mumsnet, bet it makes more interesting reading than this one!
EDIT: just checked, stw & mumsnet have found something to agree on
Started out as a twilight book Emsz as far as I know
There have been side effects. All is good.
See this is good! Lolz 🙂
Liking this on Twitter: @50 Sheds of Grey
'She knelt before me on the shed floor and tugged gently then harder until finally it came. I moaned with pleasure. Now for the other boot'
My wife told me to get Fifty Shades of Grey to liven things up in the bedroom.
I told her I liked the colour as it is now.
IGMC.
Via Twitter,
@mattwhatsit: "Put the immersion on" she said. I knew instantly a bath was only an hour away. #fiftyshadesofgran
Very disappointed, was expecting a seminal work on curing male colourblindness.
I think it is another book that encourages non-readers to read which is all good. Any side effects are useful.
It doesn't matter how pap it is. Harry Potter wasn't that well written, it was hard for me to finish the first book but my son loved it. And that Da Vinci code bilge was awful but it got lots of people's heads in books.
Why is reading a crap book important? It's not like the alternative is iliteracy.
It's not like the alternative is[b] iliteracy.[/b]
I like what you did there.
was expecting a seminal work
You weren't totally wrong then.
The extracts I've seen quoted make Jilly Cooper look like Emily Bronte.
Publishers seem to see pushing some overhyped viral title (eg Larssen) as part of the standard business plan now.
very poor read, did nowt for my other half - i suggest soaking the pages with rohypnol if you want guaranteed results.
Sorry about that, was between meetings and rushing my post.
I hang my head in shame.
It's actually just a book about the weather in June so I've heard!
My girlfriend told me she was interested in getting into S&M, so I bought her a crayfish and rocket sandwich on focaccia bread and a cashmere blend cardigan.
Apparently I don't understand her.
Never mind 50 Shades, every time there's shaggin in Mad Men we have to buy the box set to find out the conclusion...ken?
Mrs Ed turned up with a copy today/yesterday and it has been sat on the kitchen table, out of curiosity I picked a page from the middle at random and read it. I thought Dan Brown was poor and this was worse, very badly written....
Pmsl at the singletrack authors. Can't wait the read all your books, there is more bs on this forum than 10 farms.
if you want properly dark and sensuous erotica written by a lady for ladies, then Anne rice's sleeping beauty trilogy is supposedly rather fab.
I've read it.
Terribly written even by chick lit standards. Poor character development which considering it's character led doesn't do it any favours. Sex scenes are the best bit, if not a bit repetitive. It's also very much the first book in a trilogy so doesn't really come to a conclusion but leaves you hanging not wanting more.
Pmsl at the singletrack authors. Can't wait [s]the[/s] [b]to[/b] read all your books, there is more bs on this forum than 10 farms.
Can we see some selections from yours, then? You need to improve your proof-reading, too.
Vladimir Nabokov had guitly erotica nailed.
[i]Pmsl at the singletrack authors. Can't wait the read all your books, there is more bs on this forum than 10 farms. [/i]
Here you go.
[url] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Bent-Links-ebook/dp/B004QS995E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341211401&sr=8-1 [/url]
I particularly like this review.
"Felt like it had been written by a 11 year old. Ended up skipping over much of the book and was glad to finish "
Yep, that pretty much sums it up for me too.
^ this. Second book arrived yesterday and I predict an early night
I was right 8)
Do you have to have been published to know whether a book is good or not?
Do we also have to have produced a cinema blockbuster to be able to know whether a film was good or not?
And don't you be talking about space exploration or abortion either.
I feel oppressed by it, I have enough commitments in my life without having to spank women as well. Plus keeping a well-stocked dungeon is expensive. This sort of pap is ruining romance as we know it 😕
mastiles_fanylion - Member
Do you have to have been published to know whether a book is good or not?Do we also have to have produced a cinema blockbuster to be able to know whether a film was good or not?
Of course. From now on STW will only critique spreadsheets.
Had never heard of it till it was on the news a few weeks ago. Fell into the trap of reading to find out what the fuss was about.
"oh my" its garbage.
This doesn't bode well for humanity.
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(Cats serves as the typical internet control)
So what's this "Syria" book about then ?
People on here might like it, they sure as hell love telling everyone how much they dislike anything "popular" 😉
Here you go.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Bent-Links-ebook/dp/B004QS995E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341211401&sr=8-1I particularly like this review.
"Felt like it had been written by a 11 year old. Ended up skipping over much of the book and was glad to finish "
Yep, that pretty much sums it up for me too.
"Richard" prefers hair-clippers to bicycling books 😆
I feel sorry for anyone who has to sit at home watching their partner read a crap book to get her going.
Throw her book in the bin, drag her into the bedroom and MTFU.
Women are odd (sometimes)
drag her into the bedroom and MTFU.
I think you missed the "C" off.
(cave)MTFU
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Imagine how your wife would feel if you told her you needed to watch some pron before you could get it up for her...
And for all of you whose wives are reading it... remember she is just hot because she's fantasising that you are actually Christian Grey... Lovely thought.
[i]Imagine how your wife would feel if you told her you needed to watch some pron before you could get it up for her...[/i]
Hang on a minute. Visualising different people is how I control the flow, as it were. If I want to slow the action down I think about Piers Morgan or Mo Mowlem. To speed things up again I'm back to Angelina or that girl down the cafe near my mums house.
It doesn't always work though. It takes a special kind of cold shower to remove the memory of ejaculating while thinking about Piers.
Lovl!
My post commencing this thread was not very considered or well written - apologies. I’d engaged in some ‘drunk typing’ at 1 or 2 in the morning having returned from a meal at a mates house, during which FSoG was discussed. As we know, being drunk in-front of the keyboard on STW can lead to all sorts of carnage!
I’ve not read the book, so it’s ignorant of me to express an opinion without doing so, but everything I’ve heard thus far about the sells phenomenon that is the Fifty Shades trilogy, is enough to prevent me from investing any time or energy into it. It appears to be porn dressed up as romance, or romance dressed up as porn ... whatever, it’s titillated a certain demographic, but the material is unlikely to do the same with me.
What I find interesting and clever/lucky, on behalf of the author and publishers is that the driver for the success of the books, is it being purchased by people that read infrequently or buy 2 or 3 books (digital or paper) a year, not those who regularly spend time reading and have a decent sized library/collection. As more 20 - 50 something year old females talk about it at work and learn of the controversy and hype that surrounds the series in the media, sells rise exponentially.
Now we all have to do, is brace ourselves for the inevitable movie that will come along. The mind boggles at who will be cast in that - I imagine it will resemble something like ‘Body of Evidence’ - remember that agonizingly incompetent entry in the ‘Basic Instinct’ genre?
If my wife comes home with a copy, I'm gonna nip to the petrol station and get a copy of Readers Wives Over Forties Big n Bouncy to read.
The missus suggested i read all 3 after she did 😆
No matter how shite the book might be - big respect to the author for making it viral!
Bit like that Kony vid....
[i] It appears to be porn dressed up as romance, or romance dressed up as porn ... [/i]
Personally, I've not taken ten minutes on Fifty Shades, outside of looking at its opening pages. It is most damnable! It is written by a man with a diseased mind and a soul so black that he would obscure even the darkness of hell!
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This version is for dogs.
i think im the only girl in the world not reading it..id rather have good sex than read about it personally
That's odd. I'm sure there should've been a stampede around here somewhere.
So am I...cute profile picture (good luck with the CBT!)
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i spent about 6 hours sitting with mrsconsequence and her friends making wedding decorations, the topic of the afternoon.... all the girls sexual fantasies... not all from the book, but it appears to have awoken a sexual side, a willingness to experiment and confidence in them. Mrsconsequence hasn't read it yet but she was bought a copy for her birthday by one of the friends so we'll see what happens i suppose 😯
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hehe saw that photo online earlier.... they missed the opportunity to put a 'caution: wet floor' next to it though 😆
Certainly not interested in the books, but a piece of music by Thomas Tallis has gone to no.1 in the classical music charts after it was described as being played on an iPod in one scene from the book.
I rather like Tallis, and it's on iTunes, so thanks to this book I'll be enjoying a beautiful piece of music soon. 😀