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50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
kevmylove:
My best friend loved the book and I was excited to know it came from a fan fic writer. So she passednit on to me, but I've only gotten through two chapters and I'm lagging it to keep reading. Does that mean I'm not that interested?!? I'm not sure. I will try and keep on reading.
RokofAges75:
S&M sells, Mare. Maybe if Mel had had some steamy, incestuous relationship with one of her brothers, more people would be raving about your book! :P
I'll be the first to admit that I haven't read 50 Shades, so I have no room to judge, but at the risk of offending anyone on here who has read it and liked it, these are my thoughts on it:
Recently I've heard and seen a lot of my co-workers, most of whom are middle-aged mothers, raving about this book on Facebook and in person, although they tend to do it in code: "Have you started THAT BOOK yet?" "OMG yeah, I can't put it down!!" One of the ones I'm teaching a workshop with this week has actually been carrying one of the sequels around in her purse because apparently she literally could not put it down.
Overhearing these women gush about it is awkward because I've heard enough about it to know that it's graphic and involves kinky S&M kind of stuff, but I think what really makes me feel embarrassed for them is knowing that it was originally a Twilight fanfic. That "Christian Grey" everyone's obsessed with is actually just sparkly Edward without his bloodlust, being even creepier than he is in Twilight, and the girl is pathetic Bella. I can't speak for the quality of the writing, but hearing these reading teachers rave about it just makes me shake my head.
More power to this author for turning her fanfic into a goldmine, but I feel like she's giving other fanfic authors a bad name. Modern fanfic started out being written by Trekkies, whom people picture as grown men living in their mother's basements, but now I feel like fanfic writers are going to be typecast as people like this woman and Stephenie Meyer - desperate housewives living out their sexual fantasies vicariously through barely-disguised fictional versions of themselves in the stories they write. Some BSB fanfic authors already convey that image, and I feel like as this brings more publicity to fanfiction, people are going to assume we're all that way. It's hard enough to explain why I write stories about the Backstreet Boys without adding that stereotype to the mix.
mare:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on June 10, 2012, 04:02:19 PM ---You should publish it to Kindle :)
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Writers actually have to pay Amazon to have their books put on Kindle and I just don't have the money to do that. Maybe I can borrow some from this chick. Lol yeah, I'm jealous. I admit it. Especially if she sucks as an author as badly as most people say she does.
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: mare on June 10, 2012, 04:35:44 PM ---Writers actually have to pay Amazon to have their books put on Kindle and I just don't have the money to do that. Maybe I can borrow some from this chick. Lol yeah, I'm jealous. I admit it. Especially if she sucks as an author as badly as most people say she does.
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You have to pay them? Don't they take a bit of commission or something? I don't know how it works.
Yeah, she sucks! I wouldn't mind some of her money though :)
mare:
I'm sure they would get a commission from the publisher maybe but yeah we have to pay them initially. I think that's how hey make their initial profit because if it doesn't sell they still manage to make money.
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