Fifty Shades.

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. 😆

emma82
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.

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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 iliteracy.

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.