Can anyone 'splain Fifty Shades of Gray to me?

[raisindot]

I'm counting on your Brits to let me know what this thing is all about.

I've heard it called everything from 'subpar Twilight fanfic' to 'Mommy porn.' Yet, apparently, it's about to become the next Harry Potter of the book group set and film studios are falling over each other to film it.

Would anyone here admit to reading it, or at least have a backstory?

 

[Tonyblack]

I've never heard of it.

 

[author3]

I've heard of it,I think my school book club read it at some point but I've no idea what it's about.

 

[Catch-up]

I've never heard of it either. Looked it up on Barnes & Noble, but it doesn't say a whole lot about it. And, "mommy porn"? I hate stupid phrases like that.

 

[chris.ph]

the right up on amazon is pretty good, its a teen romance with a dark heart novel

 

[SpideyGirl]

Can't be British otherwise it would be Fifty Shades of Grey surely? :think:

 

[Dotsie]

It is. I'd never heard of it till now, can't say I'm interested.

 

[Anonymous]

Story started out as a Twilight fanfiction (M-rated), gained a number of followers and then the author went, changed the names, added some very small new scenes and published it. The people that read the fanfiction bought the book. and a lot of regular twilight fans did too

 

[Molokov]

... and now they're making a movie of it.

 

[Catch-up]

Teen romance? That definitely doesn't make it sound appealing to me.

Can't be British otherwise it would be Fifty Shades of Grey surely? :think:

Is that the difference between grey and gray?! I've always wondered!

 

[raisindot]

Correct. It is, of course, "grey," not "gray".

This is the article from our local newspaper on thing, which is the first time I had heard of it. Made it sound like this thing was going to be bigger than the Bible.

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles ... _interest/

 

[The Mad Collector]

It;s supposed to be lightweight BDSM aimed at women readers. Doesn't appeal to me but then again I'm not part of the target audience

 

[high eight]

Teen romance? :x Fanfiction? Twilight fanfiction?

I don't usually advocate burning books, but...........

 

[Anonymous]

For once I'm all with you, h8.
And it's not only teenage romance twilight fanfiction. it's M-Rated (NC-17) teenage romance twilight fanfiction with some badly written BondageSadomaso.

 

[high eight]

For once I'm all with you, h8.
And it's not only teenage romance twilight fanfiction. it's M-Rated (NC-17) teenage romance twilight fanfiction with some badly written BondageSadomaso.

Oh. My. God.

Can't we arrange for an 'accident' at the distribution warehouse? A 100 megaton H-bomb should do it.

 

[Anonymous]

Hopefully Dx
And you know, as far as I know, it's not the first book that buggers the mind like that.
I think the titles are City Of Bones etc...books filled with blatant plagiarism, taking whole PAGES OF TEXT straight from other books like Harry Potter...and yet did get published...and sold well...

 

[raisindot]

Well, apparently this godawful fanfic-cum-mommy porn is now the best-selling series of "books" in the U.S.

Just goes to show--doesn't matter how much of a hack you are--write something that grabs the zeitgist and you're a best-seller.

 

[Anonymous]

While I know not everyone of you is fond of tumblr, this might be interesting to those that want to get an impression of the book:
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The comments by the one running the side often make it at least a little ... standable...
Enjoy

 

[serendipnick]

Hah! Although it shames me to admit this, I actually read this. I have kind of a problem with reading, not unlike some people and junk food or crack. After about three pages I was like, "I have to stop!", but I just couldn't stop looking. It exerts a bizarre hold, not unlike the sight of a small decaying woodland animal corpse. It stinks but at the same time it's morbidly fascinating.

Anyway. Fifty Shades of Puke is every bit as twee and and vile as its origins as a Twilight fanfic would imply. It is about a generic thinks-herself-skinny-and-dull-but-is-mysteriously-attractive-to-billionaires heroin and her tortured relationship (pardon the pun) with a handsome billionaire with a BDSM thing going on. I could mock the abysmal writing (any writer who uses "he smirked" in a non-comic sense deserves to be put in the stocks), or the storyline, or anything... in a way, there are so many things to hate about the book that it's almost worth it... but not really. It's horrible.

 

[Dotsie]

Thanks for helping me to avoid it!