Fifty Shades of Grey

[LitteraryWench]

So, I am curious if anyone here has read this. I just started reading it because a friend mentioned it and because I found out that it was originally a Twilight fan fic. It's supposed to be VERY kinky and have some BDSM in it.

Thoughts?

 

[Cruel2BKind]

So, I am curious if anyone here has read this. I just started reading it because a friend mentioned it and because I found out that it was originally a Twilight fan fic. It's supposed to be VERY kinky and have some BDSM in it.

Thoughts?

Already several huge threads that have bitched about it... Sorry, but you're kinda like that person who found out about Kony2012 a few days ago.

 

[LitteraryWench]

I'm a newbie, so without scrolling through bajillions of threads, I wouldn't have known that.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I'm a newbie, so without scrolling through bajillions of threads, I wouldn't have known that.

It's fine, just a warning. I hope the residents will take note that you have been suitably chastised :caning: and now know the order of things.

 

[LitteraryWench]

Thanks for the heads up!

And how did you know I liked spanking????

 

[sr71plt]

What's Kony2012? And the newbie has a good point, I think. I went back a couple of days on the menu to try to find a thread to send the poster to (which it would have been nice that you did rather than be snippy) and didn't find it. So I can understand that someone who didn't know there were threads already hadn't found one.

 

[LitteraryWench]

What's Kony2012? And the newbie has a good point, I think. I went back a couple of days on the menu to try to find a thread to send the poster to (which it would have been nice that you did rather than be snippy) and didn't find it. So I can understand that someone who didn't know there were threads already hadn't found one.

As said newbie in question, I'm used to being newbies other places as well. It's often the case that tired, constantly harped about topics are reposted by newbies who just find things out and don't know if others know. Of course, in today's instant info world, perhaps one should assume that unless it's breaking news, it's already been discussed.

I personally just learned about this series a week ago. So, I may be Miss Tardy to the Party, but it was new news to me.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

What's Kony2012?

look it up, miss tardy-to-the-party

I like that, I might use that from now on.

 

[LitteraryWench]

look it up, miss tardy-to-the-party

I like that, I might use that from now on.

I can't take credit. Thank Miss Abby Sciuto from NCIS.

 

[sr71plt]

look it up, miss tardy-to-the-party

I like that, I might use that from now on.

Why should I? I don't see that it's relevant to anything other than you being snotty. I don't really care what it means.

 

[estragon]

Wench, welcome to Lit. Read your story "Aye, There's a Wench" and liked it publicly on my "Embarras de Richesse" thread on the SF BB. Good debut.

Kony2012 is a move made by Invisible Children to promote the capture of Joseph Kony, Ugandan war criminal, by this December. Right?

 

[PennLady]

So, I am curious if anyone here has read this. I just started reading it because a friend mentioned it and because I found out that it was originally a Twilight fan fic. It's supposed to be VERY kinky and have some BDSM in it.

Thoughts?

Haven't read it myself -- no real desire too -- but I've heard what you have. It was originally Twilight fanfic but has been changed pretty significantly to get away from that. As for how kinky it is, I can't say; I get the impression it may only be "very kinky" to those who don't know much about BDSM.

Kony2012 is a move made by Invisible Children to promote the capture of Joseph Kony, Ugandan war criminal, by this December. Right?

Yes, that's true. However, since the release, there's been a lot of controversy regarding how accurate their statements are, or the movie is, and things like that.

 

[PayDay]

Already several huge threads that have bitched about it... Sorry, but you're kinda like that person who found out about Kony2012 a few days ago.

What's Kony2012? And the newbie has a good point, I think. I went back a couple of days on the menu to try to find a thread to send the poster to (which it would have been nice that you did rather than be snippy) and didn't find it. So I can understand that someone who didn't know there were threads already hadn't found one.

Fuck those threads, this one works.

Haven't read it myself -- no real desire too -- but I've heard what you have. It was originally Twilight fanfic but has been changed pretty significantly to get away from that. As for how kinky it is, I can't say; I get the impression it may only be "very kinky" to those who don't know much about BDSM.

This----------------------^

Did any of you catch the headline on the main page today?

"Fifty Shades of Grey exposes erotica to women readers..."

As if women don't read porn. From the article (Pretty good for USA Today):

The trilogy shows BDSM "in a very responsible way," citing the "extended discussion about what each character wants from the sexual relationship, with great examples of 'hard limits' but also compromises."

She says, however, that the term "mommy porn" some have used to describe the books is "another way of denigrating women's interest in sexuality."

 

[THROBBS]

Thanks for the link PayDay.

 

[lovecraft68]

Here you go

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=800684

Read near the end where I post that since it "made it big" on Good Morning America one in every 3 reviews is a one bomb.

When it had no expectations it was doing well, now that people are being force fed how good it is they are buying it and are very disappointed in it.

As a book it bites. The writing is so-so and the sex as hardcore as watching the old late at night showtime movies, in fact they were hotter.

The book is a contrived tool created to vulture off of the Twilight crowd. IN fact I keep finding myself wondering how it landed on Good Morning America to begin with?

I'll tell you how. It is like one of those fifties bands the producers would put together. No talent, no originality, but the right look.

My other half bought it, I swear to piss me off, then put it down after 6 chapters and said all kidding aside, someone would have to pay her to finish. That she reads 20 stories a week on lit that are better.

said it before and I will say it again, as a book? Garbage. As a product? Brilliant.

 

[lovecraft68]

Originally Posted by Susan Wright of Phoenix founder of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
The trilogy shows BDSM "in a very responsible way," citing the "extended discussion about what each character wants from the sexual relationship, with great examples of 'hard limits' but also compromises."

She says, however, that the term "mommy porn" some have used to describe the books is "another way of denigrating women's interest in sexuality."

This trilogy contains BDSM explained over and over and over by someone who has never experienced it and researched it over google.

The extended discussions are the author drilling it into the readers head so they "get it" because the author herself is clueless.

Red room of Pain.

You use something like that you best know how to deliver the real deal.

 

[THROBBS]

On the bright side!
GreyGraygreygray should open doors for good work.
and that is cool!

 

[lovecraft68]

look it up, miss tardy-to-the-party

I like that, I might use that from now on.

For Pilot to know what that is he would have to acknowledge something other than himself.

Surprising that someone still supposedly connected with the Government wouldn't be all over KOny 2012 I'm sure it was a hot topic at all the embassy parties that he attends.

as part of the wait staff.

 

[sr71plt]

For Pilot to know what that is he would have to acknowledge something other than himself.

Surprising that someone still supposedly connected with the Government wouldn't be all over KOny 2012 I'm sure it was a hot topic at all the embassy parties that he attends.

as part of the wait staff.

Sorry, I still won't go to the prom with you, jackass. Your obsession with me will remain unfulfilled.

 

[THROBBS]

Would you guys go get a room!

 

[sr71plt]

Would you guys go get a room!

I have a better idea. Lovecraft can get a room by himself. He's the one trying to put his nose up my ass all of the time.

(when he's not trying to get in cruel2bkind's pants, of course).

 

[THROBBS]

ANYWAY!

I think it is a really good thing that fifty shades is getting publicity...and that it is subsequently getting poor reviews. That will mean that people will start to wonder what is "good" erotica (BDSM or otherwise). So.... be ready.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Twilight, I'm sick of that series...


http://thesykoward.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/twilight.jpg

 

[lovecraft68]

ANYWAY!

I think it is a really good thing that fifty shades is getting publicity...and that it is subsequently getting poor reviews. That will mean that people will start to wonder what is "good" erotica (BDSM or otherwise). So.... be ready.

Yup it should get some better works some attention.

I would love to still be hanging around the clubs though when the women reading this thing waltz in and think all doms are just oh so sweet and romantic underneath all that "dominant stuff"

On a personal level I think Shades bugs me because I have always had the "misunderstood" bad boy that in the end is a great guy and a good woman can change him.

.I guess I just hate romanticized crap, but I understand that's the draw, its why I see shades as more romance than erotica.

 

[PennLady]

On a personal level I think Shades bugs me because I have always had the "misunderstood" bad boy that in the end is a great guy and a good woman can change him.

I guess I just hate romanticized crap, but I understand that's the draw, its why I see shades as more romance than erotica.

This may all be true about Shades, but I can't dismiss it outright because I haven't read it. I'm using what I've heard and read about it to make my decisions at the moment, but eventually I suppose I'll read it so I can see it for myself and make any decisions for myself.

Still, at the moment, I'm not interested.