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Never read that or 50 shades, dare say, I never will. If I want porn, I watch porn.

Having said that - not sure what the actual problem here is? .. The blogger seems surprised that a reasonably graphic book about sex written from a mans perspective wouldn't involve references to his cock - like a lot?

The one point that they made that gelled was the point about him escalating from her asking him if he was gay to a rage that see's him wanting to prove he's not by fucking her over a desk/chair whatever it was .. I mean, sure its hardly a reasoned or balanced response but, its the kinda response a great many men still have to being called gay .. not so much wanting to screw someone on a chair but, to be unreasonably outraged. Comment worthy from a moral/sociological perspective but, as a part of one persons inner narrative, my guess is that that is the sort of guy he is - maybe?
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This book sold a million copies in its first week of release. I doubt Shakespeare, Hemingway or Faulkner ever managed this. So EL James must have done something right.

But I've neither read her works, nor do I intend to.
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I moved this to Literature, although I am aware that it requires the word 'literature' to be used very loosely.
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Christian Grey is a scary abusive fuckboy and I am actually looking forward to EL James' even more batshit attempts to justify his horrific behaviour because he is rich and handsome and therefore it's okay to stalk people.
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lol fuckboy
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Anakin McFly wrote:wtf is this book http://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/i-r ... enlkOK7P5R
I like the way Anastasia Steele's continuous references to her 'inner goddess' are replaced by Christian Grey continually referring to his cock. My cock is indifferent to the whole thing.
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Normally, I feel bad for authors whose work gets mocked, but I make an exception here because EL James is in a league of her own: http://uproxx.com/webculture/2015/06/ask-el-james/

And speaking of her inner goddess:

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainme ... s-of-grey/

"My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves."
"My inner goddess glows so bright she could light up Portland."
"My inner goddess leaps up cheering from her chaise longue."

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You all knew I was going to post it:

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For serious, Fifty Shades of Grey is supposed to be the story of an emotionally damaged man being redeemed by the love of a good woman. What it actually is is the story of an entitled psychopath and the slow capitulation of his victim. He straight-up admits that his interest in BDSM is not a healthy taste for unorthodox sexual expression but an opportunity to beat and humiliate women who look like his birth mother. Christian Grey is an abusive sexual predator who should be chemically castrated. And EL James should be hit in the face with a kipper.
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D:

Apparently a lot of people from the BDSM community are pissed off at EL James, because they say what the books portray is abuse and not BDSM.
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I was never able to understand the big huge gigantic difference between a lot of BDSM and just regular plain ole' abuse anyway. Like, I know there are differences, but a lot of those differences don't seem to be as strong as advertised. But sure, this book probably misrepresents BDSM in a lot of ways.
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Well, the main difference is that BDSM is (theoretically) consensual.
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I thought this thread was gonna be about Grey Malkin.
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aels wrote:Well, the main difference is that BDSM is (theoretically) consensual.
Sure, but "consent" is a tricky and complicated concept.
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