slaves, tell me about 50 Shades of Grey

airport books?

― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:40 AM (2 minutes ago)

airport books exactly, but 'made' books tend not to be serialized or from established authors. IOW it's a way for publishers to maximise profits: take a small book by a no-name (or INTERNET FAMOUS) author writing an acknowledged genre w/ niche (and usually female, preferably young and uncritical) fanbase and print copies on the cheapo and bind w/ glue, flood book blogs/internet retailers/bookstores with promotional materials, get people talking about the book and then dump 100 copies in every b&m store at a v. reduced price. profit.

Wait - it's not even a one handed read? That was the only reason I thought for a nanosecond about reading it. Dammit.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:45 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Erica Jong says no. I haven't read it myself.

the scene I read was practically no-handed

'Let's Write Some Sex' is somehow the saddest phrase I've read all morning.

practically no-handed

Quite ambiguous...

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hb00ZP8AJbg/0.jpg

;_; at this lady
I miss Christian Grey. I miss him so much,” said attendee Mabel, who donned a silver tie

the worst thing about that is that is the name of one of my wife's grandmothers

the worst thing is that she is wearing a silver tie

I miss Christian Grey. I miss him so much,” said attendee Mabel, who donned a silver tie AND NOTHING ELSE

completely misread "one of my wife's" as "one of my wives"

Her words are reminding me of the lyrics to Call Me Maybe, this was a mashup I never asked for.

completely misread "one of my wife's" as "one of my wives"

signed, Black Mitt Romney

can we start a "Donald Glover as Christian Grey" tumblr

Should be good for a boatload of (un)surprising racism lols!

imho as far as commercially successful erotic BDSM novels go, this sounds awful and boring. at least the sleeping beauty trilogy had a cat licking butter off the main character's nipples.

I agree that this sounds tasteless and boring. I'm more interested in the fact that people are so starved for material that they will apparently gobble this up ^^ in this fashion.

it seems an inefficient way to distribute butter, even given the serving vessel

courtesy of facebook, where else
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/561383_10150795670397373_527187372_10067494_2105284245_n.jpg

Does "not a one-handed read" refer to the literal size of the book or to something about its insufficiently porn-y prose?

the sleeping beauty trilogy had a cat licking butter off the main character's nipples.

Trust me, that WILL wake you up.

It's not material, nec, it's "approved" material. Transgression without having to consider whether this makes you any different as a person than you already saw yourself as. The imprimatur of the book-that-shall-not-be-named's success gives this legitimacy above other BDSM books, which you would have to go to a different section of the bookstore to get, etc.

how likely is it that I could get published a novella titled "And Then He Spanked Me"?

e. l. james, what's on YOUR ipod??

― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:50 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://www.eljamesauthor.com/music/fifty-shades-of-grey-soundtrack

DJ Potter's "And Then He Spanked Me" is so sizzling hot that it will be topping the charts all summer...
Get it in ebook today!

Lakmé (Act I): Flower Duet Alain Lombard, Mady Mesple, Danielle Millet & Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique

okay guys, maybe we've been too harsh

Sex On Fire Kings of Leon

never mind, light up the torches and grab the pitchforks

that playlist has subzero imagination

Snow patrol, good lord.

I'm already working my own BDSM novel, "90 Grades of Shea" about a mysterious and domineering adjunct professor named Christopher Shea. How far will she go to remove that incomplete?

Spem in alium Harry Christophers & The Sixteen

man it's sad how much I'm willing to forgive her for her horrible books just by virtue of putting this out there

I thought it said sperm first

it's a seriously amazing piece of music; 40-part a capella organized into 8 5-part choruses with all kinds of crazy Renaissance counterpoint

I've been lucky enough to do it twice

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, May 22, 2012 7:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait wait is this actually true?? that is super fucked up

fanfic/slash fic writers really are the most disgusting savages

It's true, although apparently the connection to Twighlight was pretty tenuous anyway and it didn't take that much to rid it of any similarity.

shit, it is true

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fanfiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fanfiction websites under the penname "Snowqueen's Icedragon." The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fanfiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she rewrote Master of the Universe as an original piece with the principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and removed it from her website prior to publication.[1]

Can't wait to see how they're gonna turn this into a PG-13 movie

if anything it's sort of charming how quaint this phenomenon is. ime any kind of kinky sex media, from sade to porn, is not exactly hard to find. it's like the book doesn't really matter, somebody just found the last audience on earth who hadn't even heard of this kind of thing before

xp "Snowqueen's Icedragon" haha oh god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

let's stop talking about these books and talk about this instead

ime any kind of kinky sex media, from sade to porn

lol guess how I misread this

This book is ridiculously popular in the airport bookshop where I work. So much so that head office decided porn must sell well so ordered in a whole raft of titles most of which have 'punish' or 'slave' or 'mistress' somewhere in the title. Thing is '50 shades of grey' has a pretty nondescript front cover which people don't seem to mind picking up and bringing to the counter whereas the books they've ordered in have women in bondage gear looking either v distressed or resigned to their fate on the front cover. Not really likely to sell. Oh well.

A truley exquisite piece of music which I would never had come across had it not been for the book, dare I mention it's name. I agree that it's better to stumble into the sublime masterpiece rather than a 2 a penny pop tunes.My Christian is Max Brown aka Edward Seymour in The Tudors also patron of Thomas Tallis.

Janie Moore 20 hours ago

Can't wait to see how they're gonna turn this into a PG-13 movie

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Exit_to_eden_poster.jpg/220px-Exit_to_eden_poster.jpg

The best thing about Spem in alium is seeing a live performance of it; the piece as written starts out in choir 1 and travels down through choir 8, has a big climax with everyone singing, then restarts in 8 and travels back up through 1. You have this sense of the piece actually leaping from group to group, traveling all around the stage/hall (usually there are groups scattered all around to create this stereophonic effect) like a stately dance.

also, you're being assfucked

I will never be able to figure that movie out. What was the thought process involved to turn that book into a comedy starring Ackroyd and O'Donnell, aka the two people you never want to think about having kinky bondage sex? xxp

also, you're being assfucked

by 40 distinct voices!

50 or no deal

A little weird putting a followup post from the Excelsior thread back on a source thread but:

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There must be...fifty shades to lose your virginity.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:16 AM (15 minutes ago)

Just let out an "Ack!", Jack
Utter an "Oy!", Roy
Blurt out a "Yikes!", Mike
Then forcibly put your wang in her pooper

― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:22 AM (8 minutes ago)

occurred to me that the Kindle is what has made this book so big, because who wants to be seen holding a porno book on the subway? but with the kindle you can read your porn in public and no-one knows. except for the person looking over your shoulder (which was me, one day, on BART....I realized later that the book the woman was reading had to have been this. it was pages and pages of someone getting fucked in a bathroom and included the line "put your cock in my mouth". she was a polite looking middle aged mexican lady.)

anyway I'm sure none of this is as good as the anne rice porn books.

I saw someone reading the second bk on the train just this morning, don't think the covers are putting anyone off, really. Or getting anyone off, unfortunately.

The Roquelaure books are first-class for budding dabbling in erotica.

my wife's fb feed has been full of Midwestern moms posting e.g. "reading 50 Shades & my husband is getting sore from all the pounding" so I'm just happy nice people are getting megalaid out of this