Ok Guys...Fess Up

2stepscloser
2stepscloser Posts: 2,900 Member
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I love reading the racy contemporary romance novels and spend a small fortune on Amazon downloading them. Of course, my husband enjoys that I read them as well :wink:

Are there any men who have read any of the romance novels like 50 Shades, Crossfire Series, etc? Do you read them with your spouse/SO or have you read them out of curiousity?
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  • Sublimely_Self_Righteous
    Sublimely_Self_Righteous Posts: 429
    I confess that I do not read any of that stuff.
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    I confess that I do not read any of that stuff.

    I have to go with this...sorry lol
  • TravisBikes
    TravisBikes Posts: 674 Member
    Nope. Can't say that I have. Give me some solid WoT, GoT, or a decent biography, and you have me sold.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    I'm not a guy, but I don't read them either. I am not opposed to erotic fiction, but it must be well written.
  • HouseWolf1960
    HouseWolf1960 Posts: 27
    Have my wife reading Fifty Shades.
    Told her I expect a full ORAL report.
    And completed homework assignments.
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    I'm not a guy, but I don't read them either. I am not opposed to erotic fiction, but it must be well written.

    Ditto.
  • sheenarama
    sheenarama Posts: 733 Member
    Yeah... Instead of reading 50 Shades, I'd just save some time and watch porn. Then read a good book.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I confess that I do not read any of that stuff.

    I will also confess that I do not read any of that stuff....
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  • 2stepscloser
    2stepscloser Posts: 2,900 Member
    Have my wife reading Fifty Shades.
    Told her I expect a full ORAL report.
    And completed homework assignments.

    My husband hasn't read any of them either but I know your wife will happily oblige to any homework assignments ;)
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    Yeah... Instead of reading 50 Shades, I'd just save some time and watch porn. Then read a good book.

    best answer yet lol
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Every time someone reads 50 Shades and enjoys it, a kitten is murdered.
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    I have not read much lately, but I have enjoyed the benefit of people reading some of the recent stuff.

    I would suggest the Beauty series by Anne Rice (under an non de plum) . I read much of that one out loud to someone a few years back. that was fun reading time. :happy:
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    None of that drivel can touch my imagination or even memories.
  • BigDaddyRonnie
    BigDaddyRonnie Posts: 506 Member
    I read 50 Shades.
    I didn't advertise that I was when in the middle of reading it. It was amazingly funny walking into some conversations women were having about the book and I was able to respond. Some of the looks on their faces were priceless!

    What surprised me even more was how some of the innuendos were and are taken totally out of the context and mean something else, but women don't know.
  • rowanwood
    rowanwood Posts: 509 Member
    I'm not a guy, but I don't read them either. I am not opposed to erotic fiction, but it must be well written.

    Ditto.

    Right on. 50 Shades of lousy juvenile fan fiction is a no. Kushiel's Dart? Yes.
  • PeanutButterLuver
    PeanutButterLuver Posts: 910
    *in for homework assignments*

    Michelle, get back to work!! Lol
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Nope.

    Well, I have seen reviews such as this one:

    http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/340987215


    And heard some audio excerpts. There is a ton of stuff from Usenet which is written with more style.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    Every time someone reads 50 Shades and enjoys it, a kitten is murdered.


    QFT.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Yeah... Instead of reading 50 Shades, I'd just save some time and watch porn. Then read a good book.

    How you doin'
  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    Every time someone reads 50 Shades and enjoys it, a kitten is murdered.

    That almost makes me want to read it.
  • sissiluv
    sissiluv Posts: 2,205 Member
    Blech, harlequins and romance novels. Give me a good action/adventure fantasy or western, or even better a murder mystery plskthx.
    If I want porn, I'll watch porn. Don't have it get in the way of/slow down a good plot.
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    Blech, harlequins and romance novels. Give me a good action/adventure fantasy or western, or even better a murder mystery plskthx.
    If I want porn, I'll watch porn. Don't have it get in the way of/slow down a good plot.

    Agreed. Get the job done. I hardly have to seduce myself.
  • Capt_Inzane
    Capt_Inzane Posts: 733 Member
    I've read those and many more. I enjoy reading and when I was younger was reading stuff from literotica.com but now I just read whatever. I'm currently reading the third book of the crossfire series. I read the 50 shades stuff and at times it was boring but overall I actually thought it was an ok introductory book.

    Gabriels Inferno/Rapture is another series off the top of my head. I dunno there's a bunch I typically will start a book and won't sleep/eat/etc until it's done unless it's just a massive book.

    I may get made fun of but I just say I'm doing research lol

    I read damn near any book within my reach. I have a fairly vivid imagination so smut is like porn to me except prolly better because I have a dirty mind.
  • Pebbles91909
    Pebbles91909 Posts: 59
    I'm not a guy, but I don't read them either. I am not opposed to erotic fiction, but it must be well written.

    Ditto.

    Double ditto
  • logicman69
    logicman69 Posts: 1,034 Member
    I did read Twilight... the books were not half bad, the movies though... *shudders*
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    Never have I. I wondered about the 50- shades when I was sitting at a bus stop when a girl walking down the street reading the book wandered into the bus stop, and practically sat on my lap despite the fact that I was the only other person in the place on an 8 foot bench. Someone tried to tell her she was going to lose her wallet from her bag, and she was oblivious.

    I wondered what could be so all engulfing that this girl would be so sucked in.

    I never did read it though.
  • edge_dragoncaller
    edge_dragoncaller Posts: 826 Member
    The Otherworld series by Yasmine Galenorn.
  • csuhar
    csuhar Posts: 779 Member
    I'm afraid I just don't read much fiction in general.

    After spending so much time in school being forced to dig for deep, hidden meanings in the books I read, I can put down a fiction book at any time.

    It's non-fiction, especially personal accounts, that tend to make up the books I grab onto nd don't want to put down. There's plenty of drama in real life without the contrived feeling. Even the romantic elements tend to feel more compelling than anything made up by an author.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    never even thought about it.

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