St Caitlin of Moran refers to 50 shades as Mummy Porn. Otherwise I know that there was a huge debate at Mrs Jer's book club last Thursday as  to whether they should pick that one.

Did they..?

Personally, I'd give the author a good spanking! 

DiL mentioned these books yesterday. Most of the women in her workplace have read/are reading them - and she has been told the sex scenes are pretty graphic.

It was £2.70 on Amazon.  I downloaded it to my kindle and flicked through to see what all the fuss was about.   Thank god I didn't waste more than £2.70 - it's not even well written smut from what I saw.    I did read an article though that said hardware shops are reporting huge increases in sales of rope, so that'll give you an idea of the content.  

Oh blimey I'm quite shocked that such a rudey book has become so mainstream, I figured the story must be that good..!

Fun fact... The series started life as a Twilight fan-fiction, but then the author decided to change the names of the characters from Edward and Bella, and it blew up from there.

the o/h is currently reading 50 shades of grey and she says its pretty pornographic, but  she's still reading it.

(Just been out for our 'llowance)

 

One of Mrs Jer's book club members had read it and decided it was badly written and that she could have done better. One was reading it because she thought it was her duty to do so and was surprised at the content. The majority being ladies of a certain age couldn't see what the fuss was about although I understand it developed into a discussion about whether women enjoyed pornography as much as men do. Do women need that sort of stimulation. Are they wired differently.

That old chestnuut.

I've nothing against cliterature, but this sounds like it is encouraging women to allow themselves to be dominated, controlled and hurt.

 

Not keen on that! 

It sounds more like a market led campaign to encourage women to dip into a tired old publishing genre to me like.

I agree,men are all for it in America,their support of the book,making their wives more interesting in the bedroom is what made it famous

I've heard it's basically Twilight fan fiction, where Edward and Bella actually shag (I guess this was before the fourth(?) book/film?) but with added BDSM.

 

I haven't read it on account of it being sparkly twihard 'mummy porn' as Jer put it  

Ooh are the characters vampires then? I love twilight, I hope it doesn't take the pee out of the series!

Doesn't matter whether you are buying them because they are a twilight fan fic or for titillation purposes - they are so bad on both levels. I can't believe these are so popular - badly written doesn't cover it! You can tell the author is a twilight fan - some whole sentences are directly from the twilight books. I am basing this on the few chapters I skim read before realising it wasn't going to get any better and there was no point putting myself through anymore of this tacky fluffy insipid rude version of a mills and boon. Maybe I've lived too much but the only thing I had the overwhelming desire to do after reading a rude bit was to go out the kettle on and have a cup of coffee Some people must have led very sheltered lives to be getting all turned on by these books

i love it when you talk dirty...

 

*trembles*

Twilight?  Where does Twilight come into it?  The bits I read made Twilight look like it was written by Shakespeare.

Well quite! Surely there are better places to get your fix of BDSM soft porn than poorly written fan fiction

I bought them yesterday to take on holiday.  After reading this thread, I might return them.  I'll probably take them with me, but have them at the bottom of the pile as the 'desperation reads' once I've read everything else.

I have bought them to take on holiday too. I don't expect them to be literary masterpieces, just some old tat that I can read by the pool will do me fine

I don't think JK Rowling is a good writer, but I love her imagination. I noticed the last HP book was slightly better written. Maybe she just can't write for children.

I don't mind a bit of tat either Rexi (I loved the Twilight books!), I think the problem is that I read a review of these before I scanned through book and I just couldn't take it seriously.   The review said something like 'she shattered into a thousand pieces' so often it's a wonder she ever got herself together again.. and I read that sentence three times in the few minutes I was scanning through it  

 

I'm only on Chapter 4 and think it's badly written but will persevere with the trilogy.  They haven't got up to any norty stuff yet so I need to read more to give a true reflection on what I think

Warning...  blog written by a guy who read the book "so you don't have to" and his comments.    The language is dreadful, but if you're not easily offended and want a laugh.....     (was this that made me download the book - I may even read it properly one day)    If you don't like bad language and are offended by sexual sweary words - DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.

 

Oh - and it has spoilers so don't click if you don't want to know what happens

 

 

 

http://bizzybiz.blogspot.co.uk...screams-of-hate.html

Oh joy! I've a treat in store, haven't I?!!

I have read all three and they are not as pornographic or as brilliant as the hype makes out! The author obviously has no access to a thesaurus as all three are very repetitve and the storyline is shockingly bad!!! There are some  moments...the tampax one was my most  one!! Shan't be rushing to read them again, though Mr grey is a very memorable hero....and he's ginger!!!!!!

Oh NOW I'm interested..... 

Everyone is talking about this book/trilogy! But the people who are enjoying it the most seem to be people who don't usually read books, so I might not bother. Maybe I'll borrow it from someone.

 

Why is this book so popular? Is it fuelled by social media, Facebook etc?

Those reviews are fantastic, I love that person!

That reviewer really doesn't like EL James

"Once again, I find myself translating what she's written as an attempt to be romantic with what she's actually saying, which is not:

"I'm going to do something you don't like or want against your will."
"But it's against my will. You just said that."
"Not important. I already said I was going to do it, so that's what's happening."

THIS IS NOT OK, THIS IS SO NOT OK, WHY WHY WHY IS THIS HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN? WHY ARE SO MANY WOMEN READING THIS BOOK AND NOT NOTICING THAT THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS?"

It sounds like it's been written by a child.

I just put my set up for sale on FB and a blooming war broke out over them!!!!! Didn't like to tell the women they aren't worth the arguing!!!!

She certainly has a limited vocab and imagination!!!!

 

I'm staggered they are thinking of making the film.....it will be awful!!!!

I wonder if they'll use cheesy 70's porn music as the soundtrack.

 

I was once told about it 

Yuck. 

 

I wonder if Conor has read it someone has read it to Conor! 

The quotations from that review are just awful... how did it get past an editor?!

I can do smut if ya want

 

"He wiped his tail on my panties and set to work on me."

 

You want more? You could handle any more LOL 

Spoke to someone else today who's just started reading this trilogy. She never reads books. There's a pattern emerging here, lol.