50 Shades of Shit

[cyranothe2nd]

  First, read this giftastic and hilarious review of Fifty Shades of Gray. I'll wait.

You're back? Okay--so here's the deal. The problem with the book isn't that it's badly written, or that the characters are fan fic caricatures of Bella, Edward and Jacob. It isn't even that the book is created to titillate women who have apparently never seen

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[thexphial]

Look, if you want facts you shouldn't be reading fiction! (no joke, this is an argument someone made to me once, that realism has no place in fiction)

[cyranothe2nd]

Uuuuuuh, okay. Because fictional works never influence people's decision making, nor culture. *seriously side-eyeing your friend*

[thexphial]

Oh, it wasn't a friend. It was someone being an idiot in Amazon comments.

[kitcatitalica]

I usually refrain from bashing Meyer or her literary spawn such as this because 1) it's been done to death already, and 2) they're filling a niche in the book-reading market, so I've gotta give them credit for that. But with the huge financial success of 50Shades, I have to step up and join in the bashing, because *what that niche is* is a terrifying truth about the general population. The fact that *there are people out there who want to read this*, and even *like it*. Sickens me.

[jean_c_pepper]

I have already heard horrible things about this fic- and I don't really mind bad published fic(once read and still own an obscure gay gothic called The Master of Seacrest which is nothing more than a bastardization of Victoria Holt's Mistress of Mellyn with male characters and then some added bits from Gaywyck to make up the rest and this shit got published).
I read the review and sorry to say there's plenty of stupid women who would think that this shit is romantic and TBH the tampon scene was already done in 9 1/2 weeks(the book, not the horrid movie) and it sounds like alot of other shit was stolen from 9 1/2 weeks too(story about a man who demands that his woman be under his control...). NO thank you. Unfortunately this shit appeals to women who somehow think they can 'save' men. It also appeals to women who are told that nothing is MORE IMPORTANT THAN HAVING A MAN and ONCE YOU HAVE THAT MAN YOU MUST DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO KEEP HIM.

[treenahasthaal]

LOL... all this talk has got me curious to read this s**t myself just to cheer me up with a good laugh! So... you're saying someone changed names in a fanfic tale and published it??

*wanders off and wonders if she can do the same... Oh, wait... I don't write sex...*

[cyranothe2nd]

If you want to read it, save your money; I can email you a pdf.

[skittish_derby]

agreed. Geez, I remember writing very similar things about Twilight when I read it. This one, I couldn't even get past the first 20%. what a piece of shit that was.