Can anyone 'splain Fifty Shades of Gray to me?

[pip]

[Dotsie]

[BatrickPatrick]

After Holy Hype Triad of Twilight/City of Whatever/Hunger Games I'm avoiding hype-books...

[Toothy]

@ Bouncy's latest gem

Those I know who've actually read any of it say it's badly written and pure hype. The Story of O is a classic in the SM arena. 50 Shades of How Can I Just Rake in The Cash, on the other hand, sounds like a trouser leg of time away.

[Bouncy Castle]

But what I can't understand is it started out as Twilight fan-fiction.

How'd you get from sparkly vampires to S&M?

[raisindot]

But what I can't understand is it started out as Twilight fan-fiction.

How'd you get from sparkly vampires to S&M?

You, apparently, have not read any of the True Blood books (or seen the series).

[Bouncy Castle]

I have and I have.

Is this Christian Gray a vampire then?

[Bouncy Castle]

50 Sheds of Grey ‏

As we left hospital once again, we wondered whether to change the safe word from llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

[Bouncy Castle]

50 Sheds of Grey ‏

She stood before me, naked in my shed. 'I'm yours for today,' she gasped, 'You can do whatever you want with me.' So I took her to Nando's.

[Bouncy Castle]

50 Sheds of Grey ‏

'Not in this shed,' she said, 'I'm an exhibitionist. I need to do it somewhere we can be seen.' I was horrified. 'Not . . the conservatory?'

[raptornx01]

But what I can't understand is it started out as Twilight fan-fiction.

How'd you get from sparkly vampires to S&M?

The whole of vampire lore is one Domination and submission story after another.

as someone thats been there, i find it kind of boring. in theory its fun and a turn on, but I'd rather a woman i'm with have a mind of her own.

[janet]

Most of us do
...and I'm with Bouncy......been there, done that, got the T-shirt......
Anyone heard of Anais Nin?

[Tonyblack]

Well one good thing about 50 Shades of Grey is that, apparently, due to it being mentioned in the book, Thomas Tallis's 'Spem In Alium'* has been doing really well in the Classical Music charts.





*You don't suppose it was a typo, do you?

[Joolz]

I sniffed her arse. She sniffed mine. And we knew. We knew where this would end, unless she's faster than she looks- 50 Shades of Greyhound

[Bouncy Castle]