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Mr grey anyone?!

Oh my Fu@&ing god!! This book is amazing!!
If you haven't already heard about it you need to go and buy it.... Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James....

Deffo a girly book, someone described it as 'mommy porn' I kind of agree smiley
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Takes a very interesting turn at chapter 7.... At one point further through the book I couldn't walk my legs had turned to jelly haha!!
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Woot for a book that's based on Twilight fan fiction.

Something that's a derivative of what amounts to a teenage girl's masturbatory fantasy can only be good.

ETA: Relevant.
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“I eye Christian’s toothbrush. It would be like having him in my mouth. Hmm… Glancing guiltily over my shoulder at the door, I feel the bristles on the toothbrush. They are damp. He must have used it already. Grabbing it quickly, I squirt toothpaste on it and brush my teeth in double quick time. I feel so naughty. It’s such a thrill.”


I need to know if that's a real or fake quote. >.> There's been a bunch of fake quotes from the book going around.
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Chubosaurus wrote:
I got excited and thought this was about Edward E Grey from Secretary.
Which everyone should watch by the way, it's about a sub/dom kind of relationship so a similar topic.


Which is an awesome film, plugging it because not enough people seem to have seen it.
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bbwbeth wrote:
Hahaha at some of the replies on this thread! Intellectual snobbery amuses me so so much!!

(Especially as it is so rarely a stance taken by the mature intellectuals of this world!)

Hahaha ... thanks for the giggle ... now excuse me while I get back to my badly written erotica.

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Lol!! With you on this one!!

I'm onto book two now.... And I'm still hooked!
I think the guys are only bothered about these books as they feel jealous we are turning our attention to Mr Grey instead of to them smiley
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Well I've finished book two and I'm into book three smiley
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I'm enjoying it, but then I liked Twilight and Harry Potter too. And before you scoff, I've read plenty of literary classics and enjoyed them. Fifty Shades is clearly not great literature but then I don't think it pretends or aspires to be. It trots along in a pacey way and there's lots of sex. Simples.

It isn't risibly bad but it's deeply unchallenging and therefore unsatisfying. The characters are chronically one-dimensional with a hefty portion of really lame cod psychology thrown in. Plot developments are signposted a mile off and set up clumsily. The sex is titillating though - Mr Grey is a bit smooth and masterful (at first) - but by the time you get to sex scene no. 20 it has become very repetitively described.

However, I welcome this phenomenon. Literotica.com is a good resource but you have to decide that you're looking for erotic fiction, which therefore meant it reached a fairly minority audience. Fifty Shades has suddenly catapulted erotic fiction for women into the bestseller-of-all-time list. This can surely only be a good thing. It might mean that someone writes something intelligent about sex for a change, or manages to describe it well, now that publishers have cottoned on that there's an audience for sexy literature. It's taken it out of sleaziness and into every bookshelf.

I don't know how many of you detractors have ever tried writing about sex without it sounding trite, repetitive, mechanical, hackneyed or plain mucky. Treading a line between romantic slush and over-graphic squelchiness is really tough. I've tried, and I'm not gonna give you the link to it, lol. Authors I admire have tried to write sex scenes and failed dismally. Martin Amis was nominated for The Literary Review's "bad sex" award and rightly so (for a passage out of The Pregnant Widow). Asked about it, Amis said: "Very few writers have got anywhere with sex... my father used to say that you can refer to it but you can't describe it."

I agree - even the "smutty" novels like Lace or Jilly Cooper's finest don't go there. They allude but gloss over. If the Fifty Shades success encourages more authors to write well about actual sex I'm all for it.

And if one man reads it and as a result is able to give his bird a better time in bed, halleluja. I don't mean with the whips and paddles that Mr Grey favours, just in terms of recognising that taking command (when warranted) or simply being good at what you do is a turn-on.

Meanwhile I actually can't put the damn trilogy down, haha. I'm telling myself that I'm just appraising myself of a current cultural phenomenon smiley
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