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Author Topic: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts  (Read 49200 times)

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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #150 on: June 27, 2012, 11:59:07 AM »

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!
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #151 on: June 27, 2012, 12:38:44 PM »

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
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #152 on: June 27, 2012, 02:24:21 PM »

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
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #153 on: June 28, 2012, 02:21:47 PM »

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.
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #154 on: June 28, 2012, 03:50:18 PM »

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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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #155 on: June 28, 2012, 04:32:03 PM »

Ugh, my stepmum phoned me today and after asking how me and the kids were, the next thing she said was "Are you reading that book?"  I told her no, and then went on to tell her exactly what I thought of it, and ended up having to explain what fanfic was (I left out the part about me writing it).  She admitted that she bought it because everyone was talking about it, she even said she found it a bit boring and the sex scenes clinical and not at all realistic. 
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #156 on: June 28, 2012, 08:39:32 PM »

Everyone last night was saying the first three chapters are slow and boring, and they were about to give up on it until they got to Chapter 4, or wherever the first sex scene is... and then they were hooked.  I don't see the appeal of creepy S&M sex scenes, though, unless that's the appeal - that they're creepy and weird LOL.  I read enough horror to get that.
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #157 on: June 28, 2012, 09:51:53 PM »

The stupid thing is the first sex scene isn't even all that sexy? And it's definitely not S&M the first time. The writer writes like she's never had sex before. It's really weird and awkward feeling. lol  ???
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #158 on: June 29, 2012, 02:01:01 AM »

Yup, creepy clinical s&m sex with a control freak stalker doesn't appeal to me either!  If I want to read something a bit naughty, I would read a Jackie Collins or Jilly Cooper book, they leave it to the reader's imagination without getting too graphic too :)

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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #159 on: June 29, 2012, 09:37:53 AM »

I actually hadn't had anyone ask me if I'd read the book until yesterday.  My old manager will sometimes e-mail me asking if I've read books.  If I have she will ask my opinion on them and if I recommend them.  She asked if I read it and I told her that I had no desire to read it.  I'm a little sad she didn't question me further so I could get into why I didn't want to but at least she didn't give me crap about not wanting to read it. HEH
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #160 on: June 29, 2012, 02:22:22 PM »

Everyone last night was saying the first three chapters are slow and boring, and they were about to give up on it until they got to Chapter 4, or wherever the first sex scene is... and then they were hooked.  I don't see the appeal of creepy S&M sex scenes, though, unless that's the appeal - that they're creepy and weird LOL.  I read enough horror to get that.

Honestly, Stephen King writes better erotica lol

I read the whole series for the sake of forming an opinion and I kept texting my roommate and saying "Seriously... nothing has happened yet. I'm like 80 pages in and nothing." Then when I finally got to the "BIG SEX SCENE" I laughed at the ridiculousness of it. It was so uncomfortable and awkward and totally laughable mainly because Bella...I mean... Anna(?) goes from virgin to Jenna Jameson in 2.8 seconds.
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #161 on: June 29, 2012, 03:42:40 PM »

Hey, don't discredit her for being faster than a Porsche to learn to Jenna Jameson it up... Maybe she's a natural born submissive.  ??? lmao... I kid, of course.  :P
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #162 on: June 29, 2012, 03:54:15 PM »

Tonight is my book club night. I really hope no one brings this book up for my own sanity lol
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Re: 50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
« Reply #163 on: June 29, 2012, 03:56:32 PM »

Hey, don't discredit her for being faster than a Porsche to learn to Jenna Jameson it up... Maybe she's a natural born submissive.  ??? lmao... I kid, of course.  :P

But she is hardly a submissive at all. Even after she agrees to it she flips out the first time he really does anything to her! What pisses me off the most is that she accepts emotionall/psychological abuse through the whole thing but when she AGREES to physical abuse she flips.
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« Reply #164 on: June 29, 2012, 08:35:24 PM »

But she is hardly a submissive at all. Even after she agrees to it she flips out the first time he really does anything to her! What pisses me off the most is that she accepts emotionall/psychological abuse through the whole thing but when she AGREES to physical abuse she flips.

LOL I don't think I made it far enough to witness any of these scenes but I definitely can see that happening from what I did read.

It makes me kinda wonder what the author's been through or done that she came up with this story actually. I mean I know I tend to put things into my writing that I've encountered. Does she do the same?

My sister was talking about 50 Shades earlier, she said everyone in her office is reading it too and was like "I don't know what it is?" and I was like "its pretty much porn." and she was like "No way would the ladies I'm talking about read pron..." LOL I was like one step away from getting my copy and letting her look at it to prove it was really that bad. LOL
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