If one more of my RL friends...

tialeanne
tialeanne Posts: 186 Member
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tells me to read 50 Shades of Grey, I may disown them all and start anew.
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  • giggles7706
    giggles7706 Posts: 1,491 Member
    Haha. I've had a few tell me I need to read it and it's plastered all over my newsfeed on Facebook. Out of curiousity I had one of my co-workers who is reading it tell me the storyline. I was like :huh: no thanks.
  • tialeanne
    tialeanne Posts: 186 Member
    It's plastered all over my newsfeed too. And that's ok. It's their life, their time to waste. (Strange, though, how they'd probably get all upset if men posted how, "I just got finished "reading" the latest issue of Penthouse, going to take a "shower" now. ;) I, however, have no urge to to read it. And they keep trying to force it on me. "It's sooooo hot, you've got to read it, you'll get addicted just like us." Um. No.
  • PinkEarthMama
    PinkEarthMama Posts: 987 Member
    I'm afraid to read it.

    I have high standards.
  • Beastette
    Beastette Posts: 1,497 Member
    This thread=full of win.

    Carry on.
  • Phoenix59
    Phoenix59 Posts: 364 Member
    Ugh...I'm getting the same thing about this stupid trilogy. It sounds like a Harlequin romance on Viagra. I have no interest, either.
  • Drenched_N_Motivation
    Drenched_N_Motivation Posts: 1,004 Member
    Ive never even heard of it so...what up?
  • chocolateandvodka
    chocolateandvodka Posts: 1,850 Member
    I've heard it's a backseat baby of Twilight and a really bad bdsm porn movie.

    i'm intrigued only because i'm familiar with bdsm in real life and i'm interested in how it's portrayed in print. as far as the plotline? not so much, k thanks.
  • babyshme
    babyshme Posts: 310 Member
    I read the reviews for this book. Read the reviews. The reviews say it all. Out of 50 reviews I read maybe 1-3 good ones.

    I have also heard and read from the reviews and other web sites, 50 shades of gray is a rip off of twilight. I will not be reading these to find out.
  • AshlyRamos
    AshlyRamos Posts: 76 Member
    Funny I came across this post. I saw that book laying on my Mother's table & wondered what it was about. ?
  • JulieH3art
    JulieH3art Posts: 293 Member
    Ahaha, I'm reading it. It's funny. Why shouldn't I?

    If we only read "high standard" books we'd have nothing to compare with.
  • liufunnygrl
    liufunnygrl Posts: 6
    Yeah I don't get it. If you want to read porn then read porn. I just don't get why 50 shades of grey has put reading porn on the forefront and become the topic among women. It seems absurd to me. A lady can read it but she certainly doesn't need talk about it or push it on her friends. We all know how to find that stuff if and when we want it.
    I think the internet and face book has made people forget everyone doesn't need to know everything about you! or care!
  • itgeekwoman
    itgeekwoman Posts: 804 Member
    I read the trilogy. While it is erotic, there is a good story and I found it rather engaging. If it's your thing then read it, if not, don't.

    I really appreciate the freedoms we have and the choices we can make.
  • tialeanne
    tialeanne Posts: 186 Member
    Ive never even heard of it so...what up?

    From what I can tell from goodreads.com reviews, it started as Twilight fanfic, named Master of the Universe or some such, complete with the names Edward and Bella, but became so popular among horny housewives that it got a rewrite with new names and less sparkles and became 50 Shades of Grey, then actually got published, cause why the foop not, and proceeded to titillate women across the globe.
  • jenj1313
    jenj1313 Posts: 898 Member
    Huh. Guess I live in a hole or something... I have no idea what you're talking about :-)
  • stevewynjones
    stevewynjones Posts: 1,052 Member
    It's sh1t!!!!

    there I've said it......
  • ScatteredThoughts
    ScatteredThoughts Posts: 3,562 Member
    Ive never even heard of it so...what up?

    From what I can tell from goodreads.com reviews, it started as Twilight fanfic, named Master of the Universe or some such, complete with the names Edward and Bella, but became so popular among horny housewives that it got a rewrite with new names and less sparkles and became 50 Shades of Grey, then actually got published, cause why the foop not, and proceeded to titillate women across the globe.

    Interesting. I've seen some of the buzz here on MFP, but didn't know it had started as fan fiction.

    I found this article to be informative - http://www.blogher.com/50-shades-grey-when-if-fan-fiction-not-fan-fiction
  • tialeanne
    tialeanne Posts: 186 Member
    Hey I'm not telling other people not to read it, I'm saying *I* don't want to read it. *I* am tired of people telling *me* to read it. And *I* am going to go postal if people don't stop talking to *me* about it.
  • CarrieQuiteContrary
    CarrieQuiteContrary Posts: 98 Member
    agreeeeeeeeed
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    I think I'd rather just read short story erotica.

    All of the action without messing around with a drawn-out story line.
  • Tennessee2019
    Tennessee2019 Posts: 676 Member
    Consider yourself warned that the Fifty Shades of Grey is actually a Trilogy:

    Book 1: Fifty Shades of Grey ~ Book 2: Fifty Shades Darker ~ Book 3: Fifty Shades Freed

    I saw them all for sale at Costco & have no interest in reading ANY of them.
  • IMYarnCraz33
    IMYarnCraz33 Posts: 1,016 Member
    I think the internet and face book has made people forget everyone doesn't need to know everything about you! or care!

    Yep sounds about right to me!
  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    I've heard it's a backseat baby of Twilight and a really bad bdsm porn movie.

    i'm intrigued only because i'm familiar with bdsm in real life and i'm interested in how it's portrayed in print. as far as the plotline? not so much, k thanks.

    That's a lovely mirror you have in your profile pics. Where did you buy it?
  • SpydrMnky27
    SpydrMnky27 Posts: 381 Member
    Ive never even heard of it so...what up?

    From what I can tell from goodreads.com reviews, it started as Twilight fanfic, named Master of the Universe or some such, complete with the names Edward and Bella, but became so popular among horny housewives that it got a rewrite with new names and less sparkles and became 50 Shades of Grey, then actually got published, cause why the foop not, and proceeded to titillate women across the globe.

    Ha! I didnt know that! I used to read twilight fanfiction and I read some of Master of the Universe. I was cheesy but I think all fanfic is so I took it for what is was and I enjoyed it. I don't think I'll be reading 50 Shades of Grey anytime soon though.
  • laurarpa
    laurarpa Posts: 244 Member
    I might like it if the writing even approached mediocre.
  • Mom2rh
    Mom2rh Posts: 612 Member
    I have made the conscious choice NOT to read it.
  • megmay2591
    megmay2591 Posts: 621 Member
    I was NOT interested in Twilight whatsoever because it's some trashy teenage love story , that has no literary value. This book seems worse, I don't feel the need or want to read a "spin-off" or fan-fic of Twilight. Even without the Twilight aspect of it, I am not interested in reading an erotic novel, or series. As a writer (still in college) it bothers me that these are the types of books that get all of the hype.

    Please tell me that you reasonable people on this board will read my Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels when they come out and tell your friends to read them. Sorry, it won't be erotic. :noway:
  • tialeanne
    tialeanne Posts: 186 Member
    I was NOT interested in Twilight whatsoever because it's some trashy teenage love story , that has no literary value. This book seems worse, I don't feel the need or want to read a "spin-off" or fan-fic of Twilight. Even without the Twilight aspect of it, I am not interested in reading an erotic novel, or series. As a writer (still in college) it bothers me that these are the types of books that get all of the hype.

    Please tell me that you reasonable people on this board will read my Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels when they come out and tell your friends to read them. Sorry, it won't be erotic. :noway:

    That's mainly what I read, sci-fi and fantasy, with some regular fiction thrown in for spice. Atwood is a favorite.
  • megmay2591
    megmay2591 Posts: 621 Member
    I haven't read much Atwood, but I do like what I have read of hers. I'm a huge fan of Vonnegut.
  • dollipop
    dollipop Posts: 379 Member
    Hey I'm not telling other people not to read it, I'm saying *I* don't want to read it. *I* am tired of people telling *me* to read it. And *I* am going to go postal if people don't stop talking to *me* about it.
    You should totally read it. Postal yet?
  • tialeanne
    tialeanne Posts: 186 Member
    Hey I'm not telling other people not to read it, I'm saying *I* don't want to read it. *I* am tired of people telling *me* to read it. And *I* am going to go postal if people don't stop talking to *me* about it.
    You should totally read it. Postal yet?

    Yup, I've just gone to purchase my semi-automatic. Too bad there's a three day wait in my state. (jokes people, rest assured I'm probably not going to kill anyone over 50 Shades. Probably...)

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