As far as I understand it, it's a BDSM Twilight fan-fic that got purchased by Stephanie Meyer's publisher, dickered w/ to remove copyright infringements and stand slightly more alone, and became an extra-big bestseller.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
how did it get so popular? many of the folks I work with are reading it any talking about weiner-slavery in the lunch room and how to use ben wa balls, and how they're into submission. a: that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine and b: who is this targeted to and c: does it have a celebrity endorsement or marketing push i don't understand and d: i've heard it compared to both steig larsson and stephanie meyers and that makes me certain i will Not Go There
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
my mother in law was really excited to read this until I said, "I hope you enjoy vampire porn"; now she is not so excited
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
I leafed through a copy of it last night at the bookstore, and it looked pretty dull until I came to a list of SUPPLIES and RULES that included some variation of "nitrile gloves and "no defectation" and thought nope, not for me, not for little remy bean
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link
from wiki:
The plot traces the relationship between recent college graduate Anastasia Steele and manipulative billionaire Christian Grey. Steele is required by Grey to sign a contract allowing him complete control over her life. As she gets to know him, she learns that his sexual tastes involve bondage, domination and sadism, and that childhood abuse left him a deeply damaged individual. In order to be his partner she agrees to experiment with BDSM, but struggles to reconcile who she is (a virgin who has never previously had a boyfriend) with whom Christian wants her to be: his submissive, to-do-with-as-he-pleases partner in his "Red Room of Pain."
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
lmao at 'weiner-slavery'
― Hungry4Ass, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
Exactly. It's really weird to me that this author isn't in any sort of legal trouble for borrowing so heavily from another work. I know a few public librarians, and they've all been shocked and disgusted at the popularity of this book because it's poorly written (apparently there's a lot of typos?) and basically fanfic.
Remy, I'm a little shocked that your co-workers are talking about this stuff at lunch!
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
So it's like The Story of O for deeply stupid people?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
the hollywood pitch wd probably be Story of O crossed with Atlas Shrugged
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
The Story of O, The Oprah Magazine
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
Stedman, we hardly knew ye.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
the most offensive line in the whole wiki is the phrase childhood abuse left him a deeply damaged individual
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
white, male, straight, & economic privilege left him a deeply damaged individual
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
I flipped to one scene in an airport bookstore out of idle curiosity and iirc it was a graphic description of him forcibly putting his wang into her pooper*
*ftr that may not have been what it actually was but now that I've typed that, I'm not deleting it
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
He put the wang in the pooper and drank it all up.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
(sorry)
no you aren't!
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/fff0e18e796786245cb133b316809c7a/592373.jpg
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:47 (eleven years ago) link
This tumblr is funny, it has some choice quotes from the books.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, dude! Don't y'all have an HR department or somethin'?
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
The most egregious thing about this book's existence is that you know a slew of hack "writers" are gonna try to piggyback on the same idea (either via a million new S&M books or via writing barely-veiled fanfic of popular books and figuring out a way to successfully self-promote), a la the glut of post-Sense And Sensibility And Zombies trash.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
meanwhile Jacqueline Carey is sitting at home going, "seriously, fuck all of you"
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder who she's sitting on these days?
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
Don Cheeseley and Brionie Grainchurch are gonna get it seventy ways from Sunday in Larry Cotter and the Chamber of Inserts.
double lol
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
I read this great thing from Erica Jong about it:here is the link
“Argh,” she says, losing her virginity. This from a virginal contemporary college student, whose hymen is penetrated? The penetrator is one of the “Masters of the Universe” and he dresses in grey. And is named Christopher Grey, has gray eyes, wears gray ties, gray suits and speaks in clichés from badly-written romance novels (which are actually improving).
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:06 (eleven years ago) link
maybe she's a pirate?
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
“Argh,” she says, losing her virginity.
this is hilarious
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
I am interested in ebb and flow of the nation's interest in lite porny novels, though. It really seems to erupt at the strangest times.
Fear of Flying was a long time ago (that was definitely not a romance novel)
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
I love that she says "argh" like she's Cathy.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
"Ack!" she says, losing her virginity as she crams chocolates into her mouth.
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
dying here
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
That's the kind of sound you make when you lose your keys down a storm drain, maybe, but not your virginity.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
bleurgh!
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:14 (eleven years ago) link
Man, that would be some serious perversion, making your little virginal slave say, "Ack", when you're devirginizing her.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
ACK! My hymen!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
"Kloont!" she said, losing her virginity.
-- Don Martin's 50 Shades of Grey
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
what is the approved onomatopoeia utterance for losing one's virginity?
"Oomf?" "Guh?" "Owwie owwie owwie?" "Fuck you, you actual fucking clown." < blink > "POP!" < / blink>
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
Heavens! My virginity ;-)
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
Dr. Seuss's The 500 Shades of Bartholomew Greyins
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, Erica Jong was mostly pissed about the gravy train/Hollywood adaptation aspect of the brouhaha around this book.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
And its failure to be a proper "book of one hand"
A very cynical part of me says this is a calculated 'make' book in the way of Twilight, Julie and Julia, that David Benioff book about Soviet cannibals, the Dragon Tattoo, Hunger Games, Wimpy Kid, etc.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
... this a book for pooping? or does that phrase mean something else?
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Think again.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/05_16_12/erica/fiftyshades.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Everybody Arghs
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
'make' = deliberately manufactured as a hit i.e. printed in huge runs on cheap paper and distributed in major lots w/ blitz/word-of-mouth advertising/in spite of reviews/tons. best comparison is, like, a blockbuster movie's PR campagin.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
airport books?
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't there already enough anal probing going on with airport security?
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
and the sequels will tank
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
get ready for a lot of overwrought mainstream sex dramas; if someone isn't rebootying last tango, postman always rings twice and body heat right now, it's because the rights are tied upc what i did there
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
actually if this leads to more "adult" (or even adult) romantic dramas, then i'm all for it
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 16 February 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
A friend who works in a theatre just informed me that someone left a whip behind at one screening (though this reeks more of "ironic" viewing than anything).
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 16 February 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
my sister works at a movie theater, and last night she told me they found a condom on the floor during cleanup. i was like "ew, those 50 shades fans are sick" and she said "no, it was in the theater for the Spongebob movie."
― bonkers candle ancestors (reddening), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Universal’s second highest opening weekend of all time, just behind “Fast & Furious 6″ ($160.3 million).
"Fast & Furious 6" starring Jenna Jameson et al
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
xpost
wouldn't this have been more appropriate?http://www.todaysponge.com/images/press-sponge.jpg
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Monday, 16 February 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
So people are going to this like they would to see the Chippendales strippers or go to a lol naughty sextoy sales night? #sadhousewives
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
a whip or whippits?
― mh, Monday, 16 February 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
the Phish crossover market
― It's strange to me too. But we're talking about praxis, man. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
Universal’s second highest opening weekend of all time, just behind “Fast & Furious 6″
lol @ medium of film
― A MOOC, what's a MOOC? (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link
can't lie, I'll be buying tickets for the seventh chapter in the F&F franchise
― mh, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 14:21 (nine years ago) link
excited about the revival of the EROTIC THRILLER genre
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
This lacks thrills though right?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
its just an EROTIC
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure people find it thrilling in exactly the same way Wild Orchid was thrilling
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I remember my parents going to see Wild Orchid. A year or so later, when it hit cable, I snuck downstairs late at night to watch some of it and was pretty much like "so, this is what adults find hot?!"
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Thanks to winning a VCR circa 84/85 at a fundraiser raffle, my father treated the entire family to some uncomfortable family movie nights with movies like Body Heat and 9 1/2 Weeks. My takeaway was that my dad is super shameless and a total hero.
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Way to go dad
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
So, basically, this movie is book one, and there will doubtless be three eventually.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Ok, I have now read more of this thread.
Basically, Stevie D's review is otm.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
they're going to break the third book out in to three separate movies though
― gr8080, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
The desolation of SM
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 13:03 (nine years ago) link
applause
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
50 Shades of Armond: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/413741/50-shades-dull-armond-white
Enterprises such as 50 Shades of Grey and Gone Girl, designed to exploit modern moral confusion, also mean to rationalize political disorientation. Anastasia and Grey’s sadomasochistic love/hate symbolizes contemporary bewilderment regarding capitalist politics. Rich, empowered men like Grey are shown to lead and seduce us, while a new consumerist myth (replacing rugged individualism) suggests that our naïve affection — the opposite of buyer’s remorse — can redeem them, just as Bill Clinton has been redeemed and sanctioned by the mainstream media.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
I think he is getting at something but not getting all the way there
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 20 February 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
armond white is quoting X and giving a big-up Eddie Murphy's Vampire In Brooklyn for the National Review
― da croupier, Friday, 20 February 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
So Jamie Dornan has quit the franchise?
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
I resubmit...
http://www.atlasshruggedmovie.com/css/01-382188340005332013/default/assets/dvd_boxset.jpg
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
three covers with pictures of...bridges? and a clip art of atlas carrying the comfort inn logo.
― brosario nawson (m bison), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
have I posted yet with the idea that knowing who her parents are, this is probably like the fifteenth most screwy enterprise Dakota Johnson has been a part of. we just don't know.
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
Her mother lived with a pet lion in their house, who the hell knows.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:50 (nine years ago) link
Funny name for a lion.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 07:46 (nine years ago) link
and then this happened. shocked that he didn't get one donation
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1839613945/fifty-shades-of-poop
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
shocked that you're the one telling ilx about a bad poop joke
― gr8080, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
https://usatthebiglead.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/arkansas-fan-gives-the-double-bird-during-game-against-cal1.gif
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
can't lie, I flagged the poop joke post
― mh, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:47 (nine years ago) link
sam taylor-johnson is out:
I forged close and lasting relationships with the cast, producers and crew and most especially, with Dakota and Jamie. While I will not be returning to direct the sequels, I wish nothing but success to whosoever takes on the exciting challenges of films two and three.
'exciting challenges'
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
http://blog.eljamesauthor.com/?p=1173
should have been called 50 Grades of Steele obviously
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:55 (eight years ago) link
this might be my favorite ile thread title. always makes me chuckle
― da croupier, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
yet ANOTHER way 50 shades is ripping off twilight, stephenie meyer notoriously rewrote twilight from edward's perspective and then canned it after a rough draft leaked to the internet. legend had it that robert pattinson traded his copy for drugs, but that's probably apocryphal.
― the jackal-snouted problem man (reddening), Thursday, 4 June 2015 06:44 (eight years ago) link
You knew this was gonna happen...
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12278656_10153726563164889_3445818379510825209_n.jpg?oh=52f1d1ea414599a6202aa5cd42e58ba2&oe=56F94ACD
― Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4667094/?ref_=m_nmfmd_act_1
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
do you get it, the tie is an erect penis
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
they've been showing this on hbo... this movie is hilarious, constant lols
― • (sleepingbag), Friday, 22 January 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/kim-basinger-fifty-shades-darker-1201689084/
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
butt room
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 December 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
lmao she actually wrote the three Fifty Shades books again, from Christian's perspective? Jesus GOD, that's like the "Megahertz" episode of Weird Science (tv version).
also managed to get an actual non-50 shades book published: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mister
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Jezebel reviewed it, lmao
https://jezebel.com/e-l-jamess-the-mister-fucks-a-duck-1834456299
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
She has a new one about a Jewish mobster from Brooklyn who's addicted to sunglasses:
Fifty Shades Freed
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link