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« Reply #30 on: May 22, 2012, 06:29:32 PM » |
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I'm starting to picture Quagmire from Family Guy as Christian Grey just to make it more palatable.
Elliot: Hey, bro, just calling to see if you tapped that drunken skag from the bar last night.
Christian: Not yet! She's still too wasted to sign the release forms.
Ani: I think I have a pen in my purse.
Christian: Oh, yeah! Gigity-gigity-goo!
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« Reply #32 on: May 22, 2012, 09:45:37 PM » |
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I'm on chapter 9 of the recaps and all I can think is... ...how is this garbage laden piece of shit published and not me?!    (Jennifer is amazing, btw, and I totally respect her for that whole name mix up fiasco. People are such assholes.) |
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« Reply #33 on: May 22, 2012, 10:13:26 PM » |
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If I want a D/s relationship with a bit of BDSM thrown in on the side? I'll watch Secretary.
Someone was reading 50 SHADES DARKER across fromme on the train today. I wanted to grab it out of her hands and thrust a YA novel into her hands. Just about anything is better than that SHADES. *facepalm*
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« Reply #34 on: May 22, 2012, 11:01:59 PM » |
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I'm convinced this is a Twilight/Secretary mashup. But The Secretary was much hotter.
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« Reply #35 on: May 23, 2012, 09:14:05 AM » |
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Trust me Bowden,
the most stimulating thing about the sexual scenes in FSOG will be the sensation your fingers get flipping to the pages. And it you're into the BDSM, you might be lucky enough to get a papercut along the way...
Trust me.
Hahahaha! I read the entire series (I deserve a medal or some heavy drugs at least for that effort) and it was... Honesty, I can't even tell you what I thought under the Bambi Principle: If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. I have absolutely nothing nice to say. And I have read plenty of good BDSM, so it's not a genre thing. Trends in books, like in fashion, have no rhyme or reason to me. I've seen some crappy styles on people that are all the rage, just like I've read books that have so much WTFery going on, it makes me dizzy. This is such a case. Ah, if only I could write something that caught fire like that... Preferably representing the genre a bit better. |
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« Reply #36 on: May 23, 2012, 09:14:49 AM » |
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I'm convinced this is a Twilight/Secretary mashup. But The Secretary was much hotter.
Twilight + 9 1/2 weeks. Even the male MC has the same name. Grey/Gray. |
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« Reply #37 on: May 23, 2012, 09:43:25 AM » |
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I'm convinced this is a Twilight/Secretary mashup. But The Secretary was much hotter.
And, with a third-less Mormon misogyny subtext of other lite beers--wait, wrong product. Never mind. |
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« Reply #38 on: May 23, 2012, 09:44:49 AM » |
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If I want a D/s relationship with a bit of BDSM thrown in on the side? I'll watch Secretary.
Someone was reading 50 SHADES DARKER across fromme on the train today. I wanted to grab it out of her hands and thrust a YA novel into her hands. Just about anything is better than that SHADES. *facepalm*
Jacqueline Carey's KUSHIEL'S DART, high fantasy, (on a variety of levels). Just saying. |
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Buona fortuna!
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« Reply #39 on: May 24, 2012, 02:07:38 AM » |
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I'm late - as always. But I just read this blog and  I haven't laughed this hard in months!!! Who would have thought that brushing your teeth with someone else's toothbrush is erotic? Holy cow - my husband and I have been missing that all these years!  (Igitts! The thought is so disgusting!) Do most people REALLY enjoy reading this stuff?  ? |
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« Reply #40 on: May 27, 2012, 09:13:38 AM » |
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And keep in mind that they weren't even dating when she did that.  |
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« Reply #41 on: May 27, 2012, 10:16:12 AM » |
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« Reply #42 on: May 27, 2012, 05:42:39 PM » |
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Saw Emily Rooney on "Greater Boston" (PBS) featuring a discussion on this book. She played a recording of herself reading a sex passage from the book, and said, "I can't believe I read that aloud." she looked disgusted with herself. Why would that show even take on such a book, other to banter about why such a badly written book is selling like crazy. that show alone probably boosted the sales as well as any other promotion.
From what I heard read from this book, it's just printed bilge. It smells, but it sells.
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« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2012, 06:54:43 PM » |
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First Random House, now PBS?  This is like the scariest "Twilight Zone" episode ever. |
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« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2012, 07:41:49 PM » |
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i just try to tell myself that more people reading is good for all of us, and if they have to become readers by starting with something crappy, then so be it. It just means our stuff will blow them out of the water  |
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