Have you read this???

[harrys99]

Tried to find the thread about books and gave up.

Has anyone read 50 Shades of Grey? And do you recommend it? Was thinking about buying it and reading over the holiday weekend.

 

[samoas]

I don't think I am your average kind of gal. Some of my friends rave about it. I found the first to be annoying since it's written from a young woman's perspective. I have been told the story line improves in the 2nd and 3rd book. Been painful to get through the first book in the series.

If you are looking for well-written erotica, this ain't it, IMO I love to read and just find that this book does not appeal to me.

 

[harrys99]

I don't think I am your average kind of gal. Some of my friends rave about it. I found the first to be annoying since it's written from a young woman's perspective. I have been told the story line improves in the 2nd and 3rd book. Been painful to get through the first book in the series.

If you are looking for well-written erotica, this ain't it, IMO I love to read and just find that this book does not appeal to me.

If you have found it painful to get through the first book then that makes me hesitant to go out and buy it. Yea I was under the impression that it was easy read erotica.

Thanks-appreciate your thoughts

 

[rockycatt]

its text porn from what i here

 

[missmichelle]

Last week I went and bought all three. Started on the first one and decided to return the others. Just could not force myself to keep reading. After all the hoopla about it, I was real disappointed.

Michelle

 

[butterflyboogie]

Do you like suspense thrillers? Try Karin Slaughter....she is awesome. Several books in the series.

 

[skiny]

Someone is using the title 50 Shades of Grey?

So much for the book I was going to write about my beard.

Oh well. It's not really a beard anyway. It's more like a 5 O'clock shadow.

5 O'clock last Thursday.

 

[harrys99]

Someone is using the title 50 Shades of Grey?

So much for the book I was going to write about my beard.

Oh well. It's not really a beard anyway. It's more like a 5 O'clock shadow.

5 O'clock last Thursday.

Hee hee you crack me up Skiny! It's a book about desire. 5 O'clock shadows are distinguished looking BTW

 

[Jasminebed]

My daughter got a Kobo reader for her birthday, and she was showing me and I noticed she had the book.

She's 27 and says the writing is really bad. If she has to read muttered 3 times in three paragraphs, the author should have bought a thesaurus.

Sort of mild BDSM stuff, which doesn't excite me much even when well written.

 

[harrys99]

My daughter got a Kobo reader for her birthday, and she was showing me and I noticed she had the book.

She's 27 and says the writing is really bad. If she has to read muttered 3 times in three paragraphs, the author should have bought a thesaurus.

Sort of mild BDSM stuff, which doesn't excite me much even when well written.

I am glad that I asked first then before spending the money-I really wonder what all the hype is about then. I just read the other day that there are several really popular actors wanting to play the lead roles. Maybe the movie version will be better

 

[skiny]

If she has to read muttered 3 times in three paragraphs, the author should have bought a thesaurus.

Jasminebed tended to mutter to herself. "I need to stop muttering to myself." She muttered.


Hmm. Better off writing it like Dr. Suess.

Jasmine muttered but never she stuttered. My bread isn't buttered. But my counter's too cluttered!

So away she flew! And away she fluttered! Out of the kitchen! Her bread she had guttered!



Ok, maybe not.

 

[Jasminebed]

Skiny, have you been peeking in my windows again?

I'm six or seven shades of grey on the bread I left on counter before I left.

 

[oldtrvlagt]

After thirty pages (20 of them last night) the best thing about this book is that it helps me go to sleep What a snooze! I read the Hunger Games trilogy and couldn't put them down (well, other than the last which was a little long). This is a struggle....does anyone know if the others are any better, and, do you have to finish the first to have them make sense?

 

[missmichelle]

I am really starting to wonder where they are getting all the rave reviews from. lol I haven't seen one good comment about them. I even went to the Barnes and Nobel site and read the reviews there and most of them say how terrible it is.

Michelle

 

[skiny]

Skiny, have you been peeking in my windows again?

I'm six or seven shades of grey on the bread I left on counter before I left.

I have to freeze my bread. By the time I get around to eating it, it's six shades of blue.

 

[chayton]

lol I had to revive this thread after seeing this video...

 

[secret2]

lol I had to revive this thread after seeing this video...



Thanks Chay! I just LOVE Ellen.

I heard that it's the latest 'cult' book...but I am still not inclined to read it, though.

I want the video, instead.

Maybe Nifty can be the narrator...

 

[harrys99]

OMG Chayton-that video was worth the whole thread

Good find

 

[chayton]

Maybe Nifty can be the narrator...

I'd even buy the crappy book if Nifty would read it to me!

 

[samoas]

I'd even buy the crappy book if Nifty would read it to me!

Now that scenario.....just might peak my interest.

 

[samoas]

Better yet? Where's Seventh when you need him?:icon_evil

 

[chayton]

Actually better yet, just get Nifty to write a better book - I'd definitely buy that one!

Seriously though - I can't believe with all the crap reviews this book has gotten that it's turned into such a huge hypefest. If I'd have known there was such a market for 'mommy porn' I'd have written one myself. Though probably not without blushing. And not under my own name.

 

[skiny]

I could write Mummy porn.

Slowly the young dead pharaoh unwrapped the linen wound tightly around the queen of a neighbouring tomb. If he could see her face he might see her blush as the cloth unraveled and fell to the sandy floor. She stood and turned in circles to help speed up the process as unwrapping her was taking a little longer than they had anticipated. The rumpled pile grew at their feet as she continued to spin. Her uncovered eye gazed lovingly at him with each revolution. His heart leaped with each passing yard that gathered at her feet. Half unwrapped, she fell to the floor. Was it love he saw when he looked in her eyes or were they just all squirrelly from the spinning? He held her in a firm embrace. "Careful." she whispered. "I'm brittle."

Oh wait. You said "mommy porn."

Never mind.

 

[skiny]

Double post

 

[harrys99]

Actually better yet, just get Nifty to write a better book - I'd definitely buy that one!

Seriously though - I can't believe with all the crap reviews this book has gotten that it's turned into such a huge hypefest. If I'd have known there was such a market for 'mommy porn' I'd have written one myself. Though probably not without blushing. And not under my own name.

If you have any abilities in that area that could be really lucrative LOL. Seems to me that there are a lot of women looking for an escape from the everyday humdrum or perhaps a severe lacking in attention at home

 

[chayton]

If you have any abilities in that area that could be really lucrative LOL. Seems to me that there are a lot of women looking for an escape from the everyday humdrum or perhaps a severe lacking in attention at home

You know what though? Now that this one book is out, there will be a huge - I mean HUGE amount of that kind of thing on the market. Remember how the whole fantasy genre was revived when the first Harry Potter book became such a hit? I remember that there were crowds picketing outside bookstores saying "JK Rowling is teaching our children witchcraft and devil worship!" lol, I wonder where that crowd was when all the vampire crap came out? But I digress, the point is that publicity sure didn't hurt her sales, it actually helped her become where she is today - rolling in loot. But then for awhile everyone and his dog was writing a book about witchcraft or alternate dimensions or something wacky and the movie studios were running around throwing cash on all of them.

What sucks about this one is that even though it's supposedly really badly written and corny and cliche people will still buy it because of the hype. The hype because it's the very first of its kind - and possibly some people will buy it due to the hype that it's so bad. Just wait though, within a month or so the flea markets and second-hand bookstores will have them by the hundreds. And there will be a whole bunch of new ones on the bookstore shelves.