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Originally Posted by MorganM
I was warned and I was told but I got 50 Shades of Grey and all I can say it was THE worst book I have ever read. Seriously....THE WORST. I wanted to put my KT through a window that's how much I hated the book.
Why the hell is it so popular world over? I don't get it? I felt my IQ lowering after the first chapter....
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I haven't read it, yet, but from what I've read about it it's about sex, taboos, guilty pleasures all wrapped up in a fantasy that apparently has a great appeal to a great number of women. So apparently women like a bit of porno fantasy and sex sells. This is a surprise?
If you were looking for the Booker prizewinner then you're obviously not going to find it here, but it's amazing the number of articles and posts I've seen from people who must have had ample opportunity to know what they were getting into but come out saying "I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to find out that this is not great literature" (apologies to Claude Rains). But if it makes you feel better to say so, then fine.
There's a article in the Grauniad entitled "
Why women love Fifty Shades of Grey" that you may want to read if you're interested, and
a whole section analyzing down to the nuts and bolts, ranging from "horrified Islington intelligentsia" to a "
who wrote this erotica?" quiz and a
who writes the best sex scenes article (though, being the Grauniad, they did have to qualify it as the best "literary" sex scenes.
It all seems to come down to the original answer - sex sells (particularly "naughty" sex). Who'd a thunk it? I know if I do ever read it I won't be expecting mental stimulation, well, at least not IQ type mental stimulation. But that's OK. I think my IQ can stand the battering for one or two books at least.