50 Shades - Great, or the Greatest?

Appalled at the closed-mindedness. It's like 1692 in here.

Think so? I happen to write erotica and have had some things published. Difference is I write GOOD erotica.

Well this took an interesting turn

Found it. Searched for Trapped! (with the exclamation).

Good job!

None of the authors start with R.

*sigh*

My fault, I just checked and because I made some changes they've taken it off temporarily. This is another:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/218967

Why stop at two cats?

Because I can't afford to take care of more than two.

I think the nay-sayers are forgetting the book was written by a women.

Yurippe, I'm sure you're a fine girl as well but this website (to say nothing of the novels we're discussing!) is for people over the age of 18 years, and from your profile picture you are clearly a two- or possibly three-year-old child.

No, this book was copied from Twilight by a woman. Just with some porn added and a lot of whipping. Please.

Twilight was written by a woman too!!!!!

Good point. Woman * woman = Feminism Manifesto out the ace.

r u for real? btw the trailer looks like a higher budget skinemax movie.

Please note I haven't seen the film. If it's half as thorough as the texts, it will likely become a classic; perhaps studied in college courses devoted to the subject matter.

It is the greatest love story of our time! It's a lesson in character development and growth. It's a masterful work of beautiful words strung together by a woman who probably walks on water and flies on angel wings, she's so perfect in her writing.

Every college-level English lit class should teach these books. ALL OF THEM.

Thank God I'm not alone here. Also thank you for the link from that columnist. Some choice exerpts for the naysayers:
"In short, Anastasia is a totally believable and realistic depiction of a normal twenty-one-year-old female American college student[...]"
"This is why the immense popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey is actually great news for men. It’s a signal from the female gender—not unlike the one broadcast by Shawna—transmitting an exciting and encouraging message to men everywhere[.]"
"If Jane Austen (another bestselling female British author) came back to life and read this book, she would kill herself." (The implication I think is out of shame that Austen's work would not be up-to-par.)

The problem with 50 Shades is that it tells me when to be horny, it doesn't make every cell in my body just know what's up. Good writing puts me in the scene, crappy writing puts a narrator on my shoulder.

r u for real? btw the trailer looks like a higher budget skinemax movie.

Please note I haven't seen the film. If it's half as thorough as the texts, it will likely become a classic; perhaps studied in college courses devoted to the subject matter.

It is the greatest love story of our time! It's a lesson in character development and growth. It's a masterful work of beautiful words strung together by a woman who probably walks on water and flies on angel wings, she's so perfect in her writing.

Every college-level English lit class should teach these books. ALL OF THEM.

Thank God I'm not alone here. Also thank you for the link from that columnist. Some choice exerpts for the naysayers:
"In short, Anastasia is a totally believable and realistic depiction of a normal twenty-one-year-old female American college student[...]"
"This is why the immense popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey is actually great news for men. It’s a signal from the female gender—not unlike the one broadcast by Shawna—transmitting an exciting and encouraging message to men everywhere[.]"
"If Jane Austen (another bestselling female British author) came back to life and read this book, she would kill herself." (The implication I think is out of shame that Austen's work would not be up-to-par.)

:huh: :huh: :huh: :huh:

It shocks me how much people enjoyed these terribly written books.

Am I the only one who enjoys violence in a book? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had two violent scenes, one of which was very satisfying.

Depends on what kind of violence.

Okay, so if we're talking BDSM novels, because I guess that's what 50 Shades tries to be, check out reader lists on goodreads.com and you'll find something much much better out there.

There's a lightyear difference and I'm truly bothered that the 50 Shades author writes like she never did any field studies, because in the real BDSM books it's clear that the authors know what they are talking about. If she was that interested, she should have explored the topic. Yes, she should have. And she should have gained first-hand experience. If she was too much of a sissy for that, then at least do some serious interviewing of people into the thing.

Fairly simple question. I've never seen a work of fiction so thoroughly explore women's issues. Can't believe they're making it into a film, considering Hollywood's penchant for populist pandering. Hard to believe that they'll tackle the hard issues like identity and sexual politics, and womens liberation -- all themes masterfully explored in the series.

I'm not looking forward to it. The book has done enough damage as is. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some staunch conservative that doesn't think sex should be talked about. My beef with it is that 50 shades did BDSM all wrong and moved into the realm of abusive and non consensual. Normally that would be okay, so long as everyone took it as the fiction that it is. The problem is women and men took 50 shades as a 101 beginners guide to BDSM and thousands of "50 shades bondage kits" hit the market. I can almost guarantee the people who bought these didn't bother to learn anything about BDSM, safe words, or really discuss what they wanted and didn't want to try before giving them a spin. It gives BDSM a bad name, not to mention it can lead to a lot of potential risks and getting seriously hurt if they take it too far without knowing what they are doing.

Fairly simple question. I've never seen a work of fiction so thoroughly explore women's issues. Can't believe they're making it into a film, considering Hollywood's penchant for populist pandering. Hard to believe that they'll tackle the hard issues like identity and sexual politics, and womens liberation -- all themes masterfully explored in the series.

I'm not looking forward to it. The book has done enough damage as is. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some staunch conservative that doesn't think sex should be talked about. My beef with it is that 50 shades did BDSM all wrong and moved into the realm of abusive and non consensual. Normally that would be okay, so long as everyone took it as the fiction that it is. The problem is women and men took 50 shades as a 101 beginners guide to BDSM and thousands of "50 shades bondage kits" hit the market. I can almost guarantee the people who bought these didn't bother to learn anything about BDSM, safe words, or really discuss what they wanted and didn't want to try before giving them a spin. It gives BDSM a bad name, not to mention it can lead to a lot of potential risks and getting seriously hurt if they take it too far without knowing what they are doing.

Just putting this nice little book in here: The Ultimate Guide to Kink by Tristan Taormino. It's actually written by different people to make it as accurate and safe as possible.

Am I the only one who enjoys violence in a book? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had two violent scenes, one of which was very satisfying.

Actually I loved that series.

Ah, yes. S&M for people who don't know anything about S&M.

Way to take someone else's preference, stereotype it, and then claim it's wrong for not fitting the stereotype you just tried to apply to it.

I read the books because all my female friends said it was the greatest thing ever. lol. It wasn't. The plots were ridiculous and the writing was crap, oh crap, double crap, and even triple crap. Not to mention that even the dirty scenes in the book were a bit vanilla.