Fifty Shades of Grey, viewpoint of a child.

[Cruel2BKind]

I guess that a FSoG thread is like puberty. It's just something embarrassing that everybody has to go through, and now I'm the one proudly waving around my bloodstained underpants.

I found an article where a mother of a six year old girl decided to show her the covers of several classics and see what the girl thought that they were about just by looking at the covers. The mother admits that FSoG isn't a classic, but she wanted to see what her daughter thought about the book from this cover.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...CoverArt.jpg/220px-50ShadesofGreyCoverArt.jpg

"On the cover is a very weird looking Zebra. The book is about a zebra that wears pants. It’s a drama book about this zebra guy who likes to go fishing for aces."



On reflection, I would totally read the book that the kid sees.

 

[sr71plt]

Oh, God. The thread topic that WILL NOT DIE.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/vi...lasses/nostalgia-critic/35939-baby-geniuses-2

Doug Walker is the nostalgia critic. He reviews bad movies, but for a real FSoG related laugh, skip to about nineteen minutes in.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Paperback romance covers, viewpoint of a child.

Coffe-can art, viewpoint of a child.

Cigarette packaging, viewpoint of a child.

Acetaminophen bottles, viewpoint of a child.

Breast surgery, viewpoint of a child.

A child's viewpoint has no bearing at all on any of these things.

 

[lovecraft68]

This article is a plant if I ever saw one. This is as bad as "sales of rope are up in NY, is it because of 50 Shades?

Check this woman's bank account, she just got a check from Random house.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Paperback romance covers, viewpoint of a child.

Coffe-can art, viewpoint of a child.

Cigarette packaging, viewpoint of a child.

Acetaminophen bottles, viewpoint of a child.

Breast surgery, viewpoint of a child.

A child's viewpoint has no bearing at all on any of these things.

It has a hilarious bearing on all of those things.

Otherwise, this show would have never existed.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qnTmvPPPs...600/Kids-Say-the-Darndest-Things-Volume-2.jpg

And this wouldn't be so funny.

http://wilk4.com/humor/humorm48.htm

And we wouldn't have the expression "From the mouthes of Babes."


I didn't post this because I thought that the mother of this child had a legitimate point, or because I believed that the kid was onto something. I posted it because I found it amusing.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

This article is a plant if I ever saw one. This is as bad as "sales of rope are up in NY, is it because of 50 Shades?

Check this woman's bank account, she just got a check from Random house.

No more than all of the other billions of mindless tidbits that are posted as 'news' on the internet.

Scroll through yahoo news, tell me how much of it is about legitimate goings-on and how much of it is about celebrities.

 

[lovecraft68]

No more than all of the other billions of mindless tidbits that are posted as 'news' on the internet.

Scroll through yahoo news, tell me how much of it is about legitimate goings-on and how much of it is about celebrities.

That would be hard, because I don;t read about celebrities. No TMZ for me, I don;t give a rats ass what they're doing. If I like them in a movie, fine, but as to what they do otherwise I could care less.

Whats disturbing(and a good indication of where this countries priorities are) is that often an article about some dumb ass celebrity will have many more hits then something about the laws and politics and things that do actually affect your life.

You have a good point about it being one of a ocean of snippets. I would imagine they have someone searching these and then make sure the good ones get attention.

I wonder how many"This book is a piece of shit" snippets they go by and pretend they didn't see.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

That would be hard, because I don;t read about celebrities. No TMZ for me, I don;t give a rats ass what they're doing. If I like them in a movie, fine, but as to what they do otherwise I could care less.

Whats disturbing(and a good indication of where this countries priorities are) is that often an article about some dumb ass celebrity will have many more hits then something about the laws and politics and things that do actually affect your life.

You have a good point about it being one of a ocean of snippets. I would imagine they have someone searching these and then make sure the good ones get attention.

I wonder how many"This book is a piece of shit" snippets they go by and pretend they didn't see.

Seriously?

Check out the video link from my second post on this thread. Go to minute nineteen. It's six grown men reading fifty shades out loud (with voice impressions) on a king sized hotel bed. I literally do not even know how to make a joke out of that.

 

[lovecraft68]

Seriously?

Check out the video link from my second post on this thread. Go to minute nineteen. It's six grown men reading fifty shades out loud (with voice impressions) on a king sized hotel bed. I literally do not even know how to make a joke out of that.

It can't top Gilbert Gottfried reading it.

You know I hate to say it, but Shades is inspiring me. For the first time in my life I want to right fanfic!

I want to write a story where Christian Gray runs in Abigail Lefay AKA the Lady Persephone, from my Broken series.

Abigail is a dominatrix as well as a witch, as they say in 300 "It won't be quick and he wouldn't enjoy it."

Poser would get his for damn sure.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm beginning to wonder if those raising the profile of the book don't work for the publishers.

 

[PennLady]

It can't top Gilbert Gottfried reading it.

You know I hate to say it, but Shades is inspiring me. For the first time in my life I want to right fanfic!

I want to write a story where Christian Gray runs in Abigail Lefay AKA the Lady Persephone, from my Broken series.

Abigail is a dominatrix as well as a witch, as they say in 300 "It won't be quick and he wouldn't enjoy it."

Poser would get his for damn sure.

You realize if you wrote fanfic, you'd only increase the number of people who would then go read the original for themselves.

I don't understand why you're acting like Christian Gray is a real guy who wrote this book as a personal offense to you. He's a fictional character, for God's sake.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

You realize if you wrote fanfic, you'd only increase the number of people who would then go read the original for themselves.

I don't understand why you're acting like Christian Gray is a real guy who wrote this book as a personal offense to you. He's a fictional character, for God's sake.

There are a lot of fictional characters that I take serious offense to.

Bella swan, (every female protagonist of every vampire/romance/drama ever)
Stephan King 'Bullies'
Jondalar


There are others, but I can't think of them right now.

 

[PennLady]

There are a lot of fictional characters that I take serious offense to.

Bella swan, (every female protagonist of every vampire/romance/drama ever)
Stephan King 'Bullies'
Jondalar


There are others, but I can't think of them right now.

But why? I mean, yes, there are characters in books and movies I don't like either, but I don't get worked up like this.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm beginning to wonder if those raising the profile of the book don't work for the publishers.

Including posters incessantly posting about it (both pro and con) on Lit.?

 

[jomar]

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/vi...lasses/nostalgia-critic/35939-baby-geniuses-2

Doug Walker is the nostalgia critic. He reviews bad movies, but for a real FSoG related laugh, skip to about nineteen minutes in.

I liked Mr. Cranky's reviews, but he folded.

 

[lovecraft68]

You realize if you wrote fanfic, you'd only increase the number of people who would then go read the original for themselves.

I don't understand why you're acting like Christian Gray is a real guy who wrote this book as a personal offense to you. He's a fictional character, for God's sake.

Ummm, I know he's fictional, hence Fanfic, pretty sure my girl Abby is fake as well, although there are times I swear she's muse.

and I doubt a fanfic story here, would drive a lot of people to Shades(that haven't read it already) I'd be doing it for fun, my fun.

 

[lovecraft68]

There are a lot of fictional characters that I take serious offense to.

Bella swan, (every female protagonist of every vampire/romance/drama ever)
Stephan King 'Bullies'
Jondalar


There are others, but I can't think of them right now.

You know this would be a great topic of a thread, fictional characters you loathe.

Gray wouldn't count for me, because I have not read much more than some snippets of the book, I just think he's lame.

The first one that comes to my mind would be Lestat, when I read the first few Rice books, I swear if that fucker wept one more time I was going to throw the book out the window.

 

[lovecraft68]

But why? I mean, yes, there are characters in books and movies I don't like either, but I don't get worked up like this.

I think if you loathe a character-I mean in general, not like obsesses over it, but someone mentions the book and you have a reaction-then the author did something right, because you're thinking about it.

That is if it's the actual character, see my example of Lestat. I don;t dislike Vampires, but he pissed me off.

My feelings with Gray are just more along the lines of having spent a good portion of my life around the "real deal" and the portions I've read featuring him make me roll my eyes, but that's the authors shortcoming in that "field" not the character.

 

[lovecraft68]

Including posters incessantly posting about it (both pro and con) on Lit.?

But I doubt the "boosters" would find a thread here they would want to push up to the limelight, especially the ones in the BDSM forum.

In fact there is a thread over there touting a negative Shades article that mention James BDSM portrayal as being uneducated to the point of being dangerous(I don't believe that for the record, people need to know fantasy from reality) but I doubt they would want that showing up on the Yahoo home page

 

[PennLady]

But why? I mean, yes, there are characters in books and movies I don't like either, but I don't get worked up like this.

Sorry -- when I wrote this I thought I was responding to something LC said. Serves me right for not reading more closely. Guess I need those glasses more often.

I would have to think on a character that I hated so much and yet continued to read the book. Usually if I dislike a character to that degree, then there must be something else that counterbalances, or I will stop reading. The only one that comes to mind is Thomas Covenant, and I did finish the book, but I never read any others.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Remember, there are many shades of hate.

I LOVE it when an author can make me truly hate a character. Dolores Umbrige from Harry Potter is a primary example. I hate her guts, but I love the character.

Somebody like the bully from Stephen King's 'Rage' (or It, or the Body, or Dreamcatcher, or Carrie, or Christine, oh fucking christ they are all the same goddamn fifties-greased-hair-switchknife-clone!) is just poorly written. I can't concentrate on the story for having to read about the poorly written stereotype.

So do you hate Thomas Covenant's CHARACTER?
Or do you hate Thomas Covenant?

 

[PennLady]

Remember, there are many shades of hate.

More than 50? 'Cause I only have so much time.

I LOVE it when an author can make me truly hate a character. Dolores Umbrige from Harry Potter is a primary example. I hate her guts, but I love the character.

I loved the Umbridge character, too, but I didn't "hate" her. The HP books were too... cute, in a way, for me to hate any of them. I saw accurate reflections and portrayals, and that didn't lead me to hate.

So do you hate Thomas Covenant's CHARACTER?
Or do you hate Thomas Covenant?

I don't know. I'ts been too long since I read the books. Although I guess I'd say the former; I disliked the character to the point that I didn't read any more of the books. Not sure what that says about the author's work -- I definitely had a reaction to the character, but probably not the one he wanted.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I loved the Umbridge character, too, but I didn't "hate" her. The HP books were too... cute, in a way, for me to hate any of them. I saw accurate reflections and portrayals, and that didn't lead me to hate.
.

Cute?

http://www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter.html

How about perverted?

 

[lovecraft68]

Sorry -- when I wrote this I thought I was responding to something LC said. Serves me right for not reading more closely. Guess I need those glasses more often.

I would have to think on a character that I hated so much and yet continued to read the book. Usually if I dislike a character to that degree, then there must be something else that counterbalances, or I will stop reading. The only one that comes to mind is Thomas Covenant, and I did finish the book, but I never read any others.

Covenant was an asshole, but the Land and the supporting characters kept me reading

The second series was much better because it was from another characters pov so you weren't subjected to all of Covenants endless conflict/moping