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« on: May 21, 2012, 04:56:45 PM » |
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What's going on? Is it just me, or has the world flipped out completely? How, I ask you, HOW can people - readers- digest this particular meal and scream out "OMG! It ah-mazing!" I know so many people, most of whom I consider to be educated and usually attracted to intelligent writing. Yet, somehow, some of them are going off on this book like E.L. James is the next Anais Nin. Why? Because she "took" the Twilight series and added bad sex? Okay, forget the morphed fanfiction and mommy porn - no matter how you slice it, it's. just. awful. I mean, I could understand if all the excessive enthusiasm was being generated by readers who had NEVER read sexual encounters on the printed page before and this was their first exposure ( pun intended). But people whose literary opinions I ordinarily respect are effing "gushing" over this crap. WTF?  |
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2012, 06:00:20 PM » |
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Deep breaths, babe. Deep breaths.
Unfortunately I can't explain the insanity of people. I can't figure out how it happened, either. Just one of those 'right place, right time' deals.
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2012, 06:12:42 PM » |
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Not me, girlfriend. I wouldn't line the catbox --let alone read-- such insipid tripe. Amy ground her way through the book, and described it as "sophomoric"; but then, she always bends over backwards to be kind.  ~A~ |
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« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2012, 06:31:27 PM » |
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"but then, she always bends over backwards to be kind. "  Oh. Baby. |
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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2012, 10:53:01 PM » |
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A rather well-known agent is absolutely obsessed with this book, which I find even more astonishing than the reader responses. What especially gets to me about this book is, as I understand, even as a book about kink, it's not exactly flattering OR empowering or even accurate. So you can't even make the claim that it's a great breakthrough for kinksters everywhere.
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2012, 12:44:49 AM » |
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Yeah, I'm reading someone who is reviewing the book and she offered up some excerpts and no one even bothered changing the Britishisms (because the MC is an American, living in America). I barely survived though Twilight, I definitely couldn't survive this. It makes me cry  |
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2012, 12:49:44 AM » |
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I'm telling you, it's the magic of marketing.
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2012, 07:15:55 AM » |
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No kidding. I work in a library, and people are ALWAYS talking about this book now. Everyone is reading it, and yet...not a single person has said that it was any good. At all. My boss is trying to get me to read it just for kicks, but I just can't.  To each their own, I guess...but as someone trying to break into writing, it is beyond frustrating!! |
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2012, 08:07:53 AM » |
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I'm not contesting magical marketing or "right place right time" reasoning. I'm just confused by the sheer numbers of comments that it is, in fact, "a great book".
I did read it, begrudgingly. So many people who know me and know my book(s) asked me if I knew about it. Some of these people were the same ones who LOVED my books. And some of them thought FSOG was terrific. Some of them compared it to WGLG. So I had to see what they were talking about.
I'm scratching my head till it bleeds.
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2012, 10:09:33 AM » |
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Amy ground her way through the book, and described it as "sophomoric"; but then, she always bends over backwards to be kind. ~A~ |
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2012, 10:13:42 AM » |
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A rather well-known agent is absolutely obsessed with this book, which I find even more astonishing than the reader responses. What especially gets to me about this book is, as I understand, even as a book about kink, it's not exactly flattering OR empowering or even accurate. So you can't even make the claim that it's a great breakthrough for kinksters everywhere.
That's why, (once the OMG shock value fades) we'll be reading about this ~ahem~ author carping about her audience abandoning her second book, in about, (looks at his watch) a year. This is sleaze over substance and I KNOW sleaze. I lettered in it at high school. |
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Critiques should spur growth and improvement. Neither is painless.
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« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2012, 10:17:27 AM » |
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I'm telling you, it's the magic of marketing.
And, word of mouth from folks who don't know better and fashion sales to people who want to say they bought it but have no intention of reading it. Honestly, consider other run-away successes, would you want to be the critic/industry person to say Nirvana sucked, back in '92? |
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Critiques should spur growth and improvement. Neither is painless.
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Buona fortuna!
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« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2012, 11:39:57 AM » |
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That's why, (once the OMG shock value fades) we'll be reading about this ~ahem~ author carping about her audience abandoning her second book, in about, (looks at his watch) a year. This is sleaze over substance and I KNOW sleaze. I lettered in it at high school.
Oh, the second--and third--books are already out. 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Freed. A lot of people have read the entire series and are still babbling about how wonderful it is. |
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« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2012, 11:53:41 AM » |
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This is the best world of mouth: "Why does everyone love this book but me?" Appeals to lookie-loos, trendchasers, and haters alike.
Not for me though. I wasn't drawn in by the sample pages. If it were at the library, I'd flip to a random sex scene to see what the fuss is about, but that's about it.
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