50 Shades of Grey Phenomenom?!

admiralofthefleet · 19-07-2012 10:25PM

PK2008 wrote: »

Blah blah blah...Men only have one thing on their mind....yadda yadda..... men only think with their little heads.........

50 shades of grey, Rampant rabbits, Ann Summers, Magic Mike, etc etc etc

Who are the real perv eh? eh?

Women!! That's who!!!!

..and men...(me)

ever notice why women always sit at the back of a bus? thats where the engine is. the big vibrating engine;)

tan11ie · 19-07-2012 10:28PM

whitey90 wrote: »

Well yer wan is making a fortune out of it so fair play to her. God must be ragin though-he's getting the country wet for free

Seems Duracell are too

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mauzo · 19-07-2012 10:40PM

Fenian Army wrote: »

Read it, its crap.

As well as being warped.

Not warped at all, I've had sex like that before. But for a novel its badly written

Giselle · 19-07-2012 10:42PM

I started reading it. Its more cringeworthy than erotic and its really, really, badly written.

Porn for illiterates. A whole new genre.

MaroonAndGreen · 19-07-2012 10:45PM

What do you guys mean by badly written? Bad vocab or what?

AnnaVanilla · 19-07-2012 10:48PM

Eroticplants wrote: »

I've read it.
Got me wet as ****e.

Just finished the third one. Yes please, Mr Grey sir

super_furry · 19-07-2012 11:05PM

http://50shadesofarsenal.tumblr.com/quotes

If crap like this sells millions, someone should get those Trent stories published and make a fortune. Some real gold here.....

"Why is anyone the way they are? That’s kind of hard to answer. Why do some people like cheese and other people hate it? Do you like cheese?"

"I close my eyes, feeling the build up… pushing me higher, higher to the castle in the air."

"My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves."

"My inner goddess sits in the lotus position looking serene except for the sly, self-congratulatory smile on her face. "

"My inner goddess jumps up and down with cheer-leading pom-poms shouting yes at me. "

"My inner goddess looks like someone snatched her ice cream."

Gloomtastic! · 19-07-2012 11:08PM

Wife's just finished it. Gave it a 9 out of 10. She's getting the other two next week....

19-07-2012 11:10PM

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

Wife's just finished it. Gave it a 9 out of 10. She's getting the other two next week....

You should try spacing it out a bit, don't want to get all the sex at once and no more for the rest of the marriage.

Piste · 19-07-2012 11:14PM

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

What do you guys mean by badly written? Bad vocab or what?

The pacing is all off; between chapters, sections of chapters and especially between actual books there should be at least some sense of time having passed, but in this book it's as if the author just wrote s stream-of-consciousness and threw darts at random to decide on new paragraphs, chapters and where the books should end and begin.

There isn't even much of a story there, the premise could be good but the execution is just all off. I appreciate a good book that can explore human minds and emotions, and a book that explored the history of Grey and why he feels the need to be so controlling and sadistic of Ana, but it's badly explored and poorly fleshed-out (ooh er matron etc).

Novella · 19-07-2012 11:16PM

Got turned on for a while, then got bored.

littleteapot · 19-07-2012 11:21PM

I work for a well known book shop. This **** is selling bucketloads. We can't keep it in stock.
It's so funny when women bring it up to the counter, and put it face down as if we won't know what it is! I'm definitely more inclined to wave it around a bit when they do that.
50 shades pt 2 has been out of stock for a while. It's due back in tomorrow and we have a waiting list for it. Sad-asses.
Also, we've been having a lot of people trying to return it because the binding breaks. It's cause they keep opening the same pages to get off. So filthy.

Piste · 19-07-2012 11:24PM

I went to Dubray Books in Stephen's Green yesterday and they had plenty of part 2 and 3. I borrowed part 1 and bought parts 2 and 3. I figure if it's going to be talked about it so much I might as well at least know what people are talking about. Instead of jumping on either the "OMG he's so dreamy it's so sexy!" or "this is a load of poorly-written, misogynistic rubbish" bandwagon.

PK2008 · 19-07-2012 11:27PM

littleteapot wrote: »

I work for a well known book shop. This **** is selling bucketloads. We can't keep it in stock.
It's so funny when women bring it up to the counter, and put it face down as if we won't know what it is! I'm definitely more inclined to wave it around a bit when they do that.
50 shades pt 2 has been out of stock for a while. It's due back in tomorrow and we have a waiting list for it. Sad-asses.
Also, we've been having a lot of people trying to return it because the binding breaks. It's cause they keep opening the same pages to get off. So filthy.

You should give a free whip and gimp mask with every copy

GunRunner · 19-07-2012 11:30PM

It's not something I'd read. from what I've heard it just seems kinda pathetic. Also it strikes me as very midlife crisis-y.

Ms. Captain M · 19-07-2012 11:33PM

Mully_2011 wrote: »

"Mary Felt a warm liquid run down her neck; Jaysas she loved a good cup of tea"

He slipped his hand under the red silk.. "You're so beautiful in that dress. "Feck off, it was only a euro in Penneys!"

kryogen · 19-07-2012 11:34PM

Missus is reading this feckin trilogy now, load of **** from what she tells me to be honest. Dunno how these things catch on, sheep mentality I guess, plus it sounds very similar to that film Secretary.

Women don't like to watch porn, but they will read the **** out of it!

pushkii · 19-07-2012 11:35PM

Its not great to be honest, doesn't have anything too dark in it id prefer a good drugs book. Id agree it is badly written, quite juvenile. Ah sure ill finish it anyway ;-)

annascott · 19-07-2012 11:35PM

A friend on FB posted how good it was and (without knowing it is suppsedly erotic) I went out and bought all three books. I read about twenty pages. It doesn't seem very well written and the main (girl) character isn't even good looking. Actually. the main guy is supposed to be jaw droppingly handsome but he is ginger! It is the bad writing that is really putting me off. I may go back to it in a few weeks if my holiday turns out to be a washout but that is unlikely.

Big thumbs down from me.

19-07-2012 11:53PM

Piste wrote: »

threw darts at random

Or pingpong balls.

McChubbin · 19-07-2012 11:56PM

kryogen wrote: »

Missus is reading this feckin trilogy now, load of **** from what she tells me to be honest. Dunno how these things catch on, sheep mentality I guess, plus it sounds very similar to that film Secretary.

Women don't like to watch porn, but they will read the **** out of it!

Except that Secretary was actually quite sexy.

tan11ie · 20-07-2012 12:01AM

100 shades of grey anyone?

DOBBER112 · 20-07-2012 12:17AM

50 Shades Of Ireland: She looked at the bodywork...it was immaculately shaped, sculpted and maintained. "Any chance of a ride?" said Caroline as she swooned at Paudie's Honda 50.

westendgirlie · 20-07-2012 12:35AM

I think I'll stick to the thousands of free stories on the literotica website

Lyaiera · 20-07-2012 12:37AM

kryogen wrote: »

Missus is reading this feckin trilogy now, load of **** from what she tells me to be honest. Dunno how these things catch on, sheep mentality I guess, plus it sounds very similar to that film Secretary.

Secretary is a great film, so I'll have none of that. It's one of the few good RomComs out there.

Women don't like to watch porn, but they will read the **** out of it!

If there was more to porn than, spit on cock, slap arse, thrust a couple of times, slap arse with cock, blowjob, cum on face and tits then I'm sure there'd be far more women into porn.

omgitsthelazor · 20-07-2012 01:06AM

The only real "phenomenon" out of all this is how many men didn't know erotic literature existed before this.

Jammy Donut · 20-07-2012 01:09AM

WTF is it? Keep hearing about it... I know its a book and makes women as wet as a sweaty peado in a playschool but what's it about?

Ficheall · 20-07-2012 01:10AM

annascott wrote: »

A friend on FB posted how good it was and (without knowing it is suppsedly erotic) I went out and bought all three books.

Really?

REALLY??

Helix · 20-07-2012 01:18AM

The Snipe wrote: »

Its just like the entire Hunger Games phenomenon.

to be fair, it's slightly different

OakeyDokey · 20-07-2012 01:18AM

Read the books and found them bland. I skimmed through a lot of repetitive sex scenes. I found that they just threw them in when they needed space filled.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist but even I think it's absolute ridiculous that a women can be turned on to her boyfriend wanting to beat the sh!te out of her. She spends the first book freaked out and constantly changing her mind about him, the second book clingy and jealous and the last book just fcuking annoying!

50 Shades of Grey Phenomenom?!

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