Ok Guys...Fess Up

1356

Replies

  • 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:

    A.N. Roquelaire

    not that I would know anything about stuff like that

    and now I know why we have friends in common. :tongue:
  • Joehenny
    Joehenny Posts: 1,222 Member
    I'd rather play on train tracks
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 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

    and now I know why we have friends in common. :tongue:

    Cause... you're both awesome and should be friends already!! :noway:
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    @ OP - I think my gay friend might read them... but he probably still won't admit to it. :laugh:
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    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?

    your lucky i read this lol
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 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.

    Soooooo, you like your men "flawed?" How YOU doin'?
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1026476-need-new-smut-books-please?hl=smut

    Are the two of you smut sisters?
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 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!

    ^ ahhh!!!

    This is why I tend to stick to reading philosophy and psychology and your occasional sci-fi novel. I can make a lot more sense of human behavior that way.
  • norahwynn
    norahwynn Posts: 862 Member
    I bought 50 Shades and I could not make it past the 6th page. I'm a reader, and that book has to be one of the most poorly written books I've ever read, and I have absolutely no idea why it's so popular.

    But in saying that, I've read a few racy books in my day. :smokin: I mostly go for suspense or legal thrillers though...
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 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.

    I'm not a fan of the 50 Shades series...but if they're going to make movies based on it, I have a deeply sincere entreaty to Hollywood:

    Please, for the love of all that's holy, do NOT cast Kristen Stewart as Ana.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    50 shades is porn with a story behind it. Men dont have time for the story, we just like the good scenes.
    There's really no plot to speak of and as porn, I give it -10 out of 10.
  • 6spdeg
    6spdeg Posts: 394 Member
    if its not about weight lifting body building or nutrition... I CANT READ!..
  • rowanwood
    rowanwood Posts: 509 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.

    He's an abusive, controlling pig. I hear some people are into that. Those people are called Rihanna.
  • PhattiPhat
    PhattiPhat Posts: 349 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.

    :laugh:
  • oregonzoo
    oregonzoo Posts: 4,251 Member
    honestly I just prefer the Penthouse confessions people send in.
  • CorvusCorax77
    CorvusCorax77 Posts: 2,536 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.

    there's a lot of reasons why women may enjoy reading this crap while also not wanting to be treated like that in real life. Some having to do with evolution. Some about fantasy about being irresistibly desirable to the one man you want (and it's not rape if it's someone you consent to being with). And I think it also has a lot to do with eliminating sexual shame in the interaction.... I was raised catholic so it makes perfect sense to me.

    that being said, a guy reading these novels and thinking "this is what I should do to get some tail in real life" is probably going to end up in jail or shot.
  • PhattiPhat
    PhattiPhat Posts: 349 Member
    I love reading 50 Shades book reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. Waayyyy more entertaining than the actual "novel".
  • cheers_b
    cheers_b Posts: 74 Member
    ha ha - -i did read a book called "Between the Shades of Grey" -- it is about Russian prsion camps during the war - -but lots of peeps in the airport or on the plane were looking at me with sneers and grins......

    a good book i just read -- and i am not a big romatic novel kind-of-guy - - is "You Before Me".
    Good story - bring the tissue box
  • BeachGingerOnTheRocks
    BeachGingerOnTheRocks Posts: 3,927 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.

    I'm not a fan of the 50 Shades series...but if they're going to make movies based on it, I have a deeply sincere entreaty to Hollywood:

    Please, for the love of all that's holy, do NOT cast Kristen Stewart as Ana.

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say they're going to try to cast actors with talent, like Lily Collins and someone like Andrew Garfield. If he wasn't in the Spider Man franchise that is. Instead, they'll probably mess up Eddy Redmayne's career with it.
  • 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.
    No. No, he is not.

    there's a lot of reasons why women may enjoy reading this crap while also not wanting to be treated like that in real life. Some having to do with evolution. Some about fantasy about being irresistibly desirable to the one man you want (and it's not rape if it's someone you consent to being with). And I think it also has a lot to do with eliminating sexual shame in the interaction.... I was raised catholic so it makes perfect sense to me.

    that being said, a guy reading these novels and thinking "this is what I should do to get some tail in real life" is probably going to end up in jail or shot.

    Right??! It's fantasy! My point of saying men should read it is the passion, the fun and caring side to the character. Guess I should spell it out more clearly in the future. Sooo serious people! :huh:
  • missdibs1
    missdibs1 Posts: 1,092 Member
    I confess that I do not read any of that stuff.

    Men seem to prefer more photos less words

    Perhaps I should create a picture romance novel.....
  • 43932452
    43932452 Posts: 7,246 Member
    In the 90s, way before the ShadesOG series, Ann Rice wrote S&M erotica.
    I knew men who actually read that and there's another S+M author from
    the 70s men are knowing to collect but it is written as SciFi. Depends on how
    it's packaged to intrigue men I guess.
  • TravisBikes
    TravisBikes Posts: 674 Member
    I confess that I do not read any of that stuff.

    Men seem to prefer more photos less words

    Perhaps I should create a picture romance novel.....

    Are you going to be the star?
    :p

    just plain'
  • 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.

    there's a lot of reasons why women may enjoy reading this crap while also not wanting to be treated like that in real life. Some having to do with evolution. Some about fantasy about being irresistibly desirable to the one man you want (and it's not rape if it's someone you consent to being with). And I think it also has a lot to do with eliminating sexual shame in the interaction.... I was raised catholic so it makes perfect sense to me.

    that being said, a guy reading these novels and thinking "this is what I should do to get some tail in real life" is probably going to end up in jail or shot.

    Right??! It's fantasy! My point of saying men should read it is the passion, the fun and caring side to the character. Guess I should spell it out more clearly in the future. Sooo serious people! :huh:
    I do not want any man who I'm going to be involved with to read these books and take anything away from them except that they're awful. The characters are awful, the writing is awful, there is no real plot. And the sex isn't even that great.

    And he is NOT caring. He's selfish, abusive and suffocating.
  • jjscholar
    jjscholar Posts: 413 Member
    I will have to admit that I have never read any of the major romance novels...

    But, I have written a couple of short stories that are a cross between science fiction and romance... I had even written a poem about a beautiful tall blonde woman that I had a crush on for more than a year...
  • tinak33
    tinak33 Posts: 9,883 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

    Owned them.... read them ...uh..... more than once..... :blushing: Holy hell those are graphic!

    Loaned them to a friend and never saw them again. hahaha
  • Just_Scott
    Just_Scott Posts: 1,766 Member
    Gosh, not sure where to start...50 Shades will probably be summer reading....something tells me homework may be in order..
  • MaryJane_8810002
    MaryJane_8810002 Posts: 2,082 Member
    Why spend all that money when I can just go to literotica?
  • I_see_skinny_Me
    I_see_skinny_Me Posts: 37
    Have my wife reading Fifty Shades.
    Told her I expect a full ORAL report.
    And completed homework assignments.
    This is why I read them!
  • BeachGingerOnTheRocks
    BeachGingerOnTheRocks Posts: 3,927 Member
    Gosh, not sure where to start...50 Shades will probably be summer reading....something tells me homework may be in order..

    You will hate yourself about 50 pages in.

    I mean, really hate yourself.

Categories