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50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
RokofAges75:
Oh god, now my teaching partner (who teaches next door to me) is gushing about this book! Noooo!!! It kills me to see smart, self-respecting women talking about how good it is. Twilight was bad enough, but like I said, I get the Twilight thing. Maybe it's just because I haven't given this book a real chance and am judging based on everything I've ever seen and heard about it, but I do NOT get this!
mare:
I don't get the Twilight thing either. I don't see how anyone thinks it's any good and never ever will and I did read that book! lol
I sometimes think it's the 'jump on the bandwagon' syndrome. I mean how often do we see that? When the majority of people are enjoying something people tend to go into it with that kind of attitude as well. It's so much easier to say "Did you read Fifty Shades of Gray? Wow that was great wasn't it? I wish Christian or whatever the hell his name is, would spank me like that!" And know that they would probably come off as sounding like they have something in common with the rest of the population instead of saying "50 shades of Gray, You liked that crap fest?"
It's the only way my mind can rationalize it without exploding. Although, I have to say besides a very very few people I know, no one is reading the book or if they have they haven't said a thing about it and the people I know reading it are also all consumed in pop culture. Love American Idol, The Bachelor, Rhianna, loves any sports team that is winning at the moment etc...
Friday will be the test. My book club gals are getting together so we'll see if they say anything about it and if they do i'll have to have an intervention of some kind! LMAO
RokofAges75:
You're probably right. It's just funny - workplace friends are all gushing about this book, and my fanfic friends are all dissing it. I like both groups, but it shows whom I've got more in common with. :P
Pengi:
Everywhere I go they're gushing about it - at Books a Million, at coffee shops, at the grocery store, at Target... Literally it seems like I keep running into people while they're standing around and discussing that stupid book. The only place I hadn't heard about it until recently was at my own work, and when it came up last week between two women sifting through our fiction shelves, one woman asked if we had it and I was like "Uumm..." and before I could even think to respond about how it's basically porn and would never ,ever be in our store, this random other woman leaped in and was gushing about how Satanic it is... I work at a Christian bookstore though so really it's not that big of a surprise. LOL. We get these crazy customers that talk about how Satanic everything is. This particular woman that was expounding on it that day was one that's complained about our contemporary Christian CDs because some of the "young men" performing have guitars in the background. Cos apparently Jesus hates guitars. LOL ... :crazy: ...But I couldn't help but chuckle to myself in this case because it's the first place I've heard mention of it off these posts that didn't gush of it.
RokofAges75:
LOL You can always count on those psycho-Christians!
I was at a purse party last night with some of my teacher friends who I thought were more on the same page as me with taste level, and even THEY are all reading this book! I was literally the only person at the party who hadn't read it, besides the hostess's husband LOL. I had to bite my tongue to prevent myself from asking if they knew it started out as Twilight fanfic - I'd already had three glasses of wine and was worried I might say too much if we got on the topic of fanfic LOL. I don't think most people even know what that is, although as word gets around about this book, I guess they're finding out!
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