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Ok Guys...Fess Up

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  • tuckerrj
    tuckerrj Posts: 1,453 Member
    Uh, no. Just no
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    No, my husband is not reading that. Neither did I.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Every time someone reads 50 Shades and enjoys it, a kitten is murdered.

    That almost makes me want to read it.
    You have to also enjoy it.
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    men need pictures... even in the past!

    yep, just google 1800's porn

    True. We are more visually oriented. It's evolution baby!
  • 2stepscloser
    2stepscloser Posts: 2,900 Member
    I agree that 50 Shades was not the best I've read. A lot of people don't know what contemporary romance is unless you mention 50 Shades...like another person said, a guy walking into a 50 Shades conversation is pretty funny.

    *in for homework assignments*

    Michelle, get back to work!! Lol

    WTH, PBL? I'm still in vacation mode, remember?
  • BeachGingerOnTheRocks
    BeachGingerOnTheRocks Posts: 3,927 Member
    I read the 50 shades books.

    I was in a dark place in my life. I finished book 1 while on a girls' trip with a friend of mine, and I started crying at the end. She asked me why, and I said "I can't ever get those 3 hours of my life back."

    Then in my state of self-punishment, I read books 2 and 3. I had bought the trilogy together for my Kindle and don't ever not finish a book I've bought.

    ETA: Hubs wouldn't ever, and should never read.
  • TwinkieDong
    TwinkieDong Posts: 1,564 Member
    so who will be Mr. Grey in the movie?
  • Reza151
    Reza151 Posts: 517 Member
    Nope. Can't say that I have. Give me some solid WoT, GoT, or a decent biography, and you have me sold.

    YES GAME OF THRONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    I don't like romance novels...Well...some scenes are worth skipping to;)

    But for an actual good read and plot, I stick to fantasy and sci fi
  • xvxCelticWandererxvx
    xvxCelticWandererxvx Posts: 2,890 Member
    Books such as 50 Shades of Grey should be a must read requirement for all men! Just sayin' ... Woot! Woot! :drinker:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    so who will be Mr. Grey in the movie?
    Someone looking to commit career suicide?
  • VorJoshigan
    VorJoshigan Posts: 1,106 Member
    I prefer victorian erotica. I had some 50 shades read to me, and it's a little too tame for my tastes.
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Books such as 50 Shades of Grey should be a must read requirement for all men! Just sayin' ... Woot! Woot! :drinker:

    Why?
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Have my wife reading Fifty Shades.
    Told her I expect a full ORAL report.
    And completed homework assignments.

    Did you start an account just so you could say that without getting a strike?? :laugh:
  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    I've read some Nicholas Sparks stuff in the past, but that's as close as I've gotten, and nothing like that in a long time.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Books such as 50 Shades of Grey should be a must read requirement for all men! Just sayin' ... Woot! Woot! :drinker:
    Yes! Let's encourage men to stalk and emotionally abuse women!

    Woo hoo!
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    so who will be Mr. Grey in the movie?
    Someone looking to commit career suicide?

    Keanu Reeves - He's got nothing to lose.
  • dltaylorii
    dltaylorii Posts: 132
    I once saw some lady in the seat in front of me at a Cubs game reading 50 Shades. About as close as I've gotten to them.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Every time someone reads 50 Shades and enjoys it, a kitten is murdered.

    Agreed...I have read the first book but can't say it was enjoyable..but it was a gift so felt a bit obligated so when they asked about certian parts I could answer.

    It is really pathetic excuse of a book and does a dis-service to any woman who reads it that is impressionable enough to think all young 20 something woman are like that...ick
  • Otter1422
    Otter1422 Posts: 162 Member
    I do not read them but I do enjoy the spoils of her reading them. :devil:
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    so who will be Mr. Grey in the movie?
    Someone looking to commit career suicide?

    Keanu Reeves - He's got nothing to lose.
    Keanu can do Shakespeare and do it well. That means he has a brain. He would not take this role!

    I think the guy who played Julia Roberts' hisband in Sleeping With the Enemy should play Grey. He already has the part down, after all.
  • Iron_Duchess
    Iron_Duchess Posts: 429 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.

    Double ditto

    Yeah; “50 Shades” is a total waste of time.
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    I once saw some lady in the seat in front of me at a Cubs game reading 50 Shades. About as close as I've gotten to them.

    At a baseball game?!

    Geeze. Probably had ketchup on her hot dog too.
  • xvxCelticWandererxvx
    xvxCelticWandererxvx Posts: 2,890 Member
    Books such as 50 Shades of Grey should be a must read requirement for all men! Just sayin' ... Woot! Woot! :drinker:
    Yes! Let's encourage men to stalk and emotionally abuse women!

    Woo hoo!

    Don't take the book word for word so seriously! Grey is a great character. Flawed and beautiful.
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 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:

    A.N. Roquelaire

    not that I would know anything about stuff like that
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Books such as 50 Shades of Grey should be a must read requirement for all men! Just sayin' ... Woot! Woot! :drinker:
    Yes! Let's encourage men to stalk and emotionally abuse women!

    Woo hoo!

    Don't take the book word for word so seriously! Grey is a great character. Flawed and beautiful.
    No. No, he is not.
  • Amazonbella
    Amazonbella Posts: 338
    Read Shayla Black's novels, they are better and more fun! :)
  • BrainyBurro
    BrainyBurro Posts: 6,129 Member
    I once saw some lady in the seat in front of me at a Cubs game reading 50 Shades. About as close as I've gotten to them.

    At a baseball game?!

    Geeze. Probably had ketchup on her hot dog too.

    he didn't say baseball game, he said CUBS game.

    biiiiiiiiiig difference!

    bazinga.gif
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 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:

    A.N. Roquelaire

    not that I would know anything about stuff like that
    You can find them under Anne Rice's name, too.

    I tried the first one. It was a bit too much for me! But at least it wasn't a 10-year-old girl's romantic fantasy written at about the level a 5-year-old would write.
  • clobern
    clobern Posts: 341 Member
    No, but I think I am going to start writing them.
  • carbons2k
    carbons2k Posts: 383 Member
    50 shades is porn with a story behind it. Men dont have time for the story, we just like the good scenes.
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