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?
