Post by eightangryreindeer on May 25, 2012 8:59:23 GMT -5
...this book has become something that people are mentioning AT WORK. One of my co-workers is reading it on the train during her commute (wut?)
Am I just a prudie or is this just... off? Some of my co-workers have a hard time with appropriateness regularly so I'm inclined to think they just don't understand certain boundaries.
I'm on the 3rd one and dear god the SEX! It's too much, I actually have to skip over these parts because it's awkward and incredibly repetitive , how much sex can one couple realistically have?
I work at a bookstore, and I have a feeling that a lot of people are reading it without knowing what it's actually about. It's a sad truth that some people just read what they are told.
ETA- Obviously they know after they start reading it, but they bow to social pressure.
i actually started reading the first version of it, when it was a twilight fanfic, at the request of one of my friends who picked it for book club. the writing was so atrocious i had to abandon it only a quarter of the way in.
but, i figured with all the hoopla it warrants another read and i don't know, i don't think i would bat an eye if i saw someone else reading it, even knowing what lies within.
now, when i see fb status proclaiming how awesome it is..... eh, it's a little much.
My mom was having a bad day the other day and told me she was going to go start reading it to calm down. I wonder if she really knows what kind of book it is. I quickly changed the topic, I do NOT want to be talking about that with my mom.
I was hanging out with a group of college friends at one of their apts, and she kept going on and on about how "hot" this was and kept trying to convince the rest of us to read it. To the point where she started reading some parts aloud to us, in her living room. We all love her, but holy jesus NO NO NO. We kept making jokes about dribbling ice cream on each other all weekend, trying to make light of the fact that we just had Porn Story Hour. Ack!
Post by EmilieMadison on May 25, 2012 9:16:50 GMT -5
You're not a prude. Although it's not really the smuttiness of the book as the reason people should read 50 Shades in the privacy of their own home. It's the embarrassment they should feel, knowing that they're reading such a ridiculously poor example of "writing" right out in public with NO SHAME!
Its so poorly written! I made it through a chapter or so and couldn't stand the writing anymore. If people are into erotica there are so many better written novels out there.
And yeah, I'm in the camp of not appropriate for work.
You are not a prude. Talking about it at work, reading it in public (I've heard other stories) and borrowing a physical copy from the library all gross me out.
I fully support people reading smut in their own home.
it is SO poorly written and repetitive, and it actually makes me angry to read, but i do this horrible thing sometimes where i HAVE to know what happens.
this. Stop boring your lip, murmuring, and clambering! Thesaurus?!
Omggg the murmuring!!! Those people murmur more than anyone I've ever known. And they're always murmuring introductions and hellos.. impolite much? Lol. Am I the only one who found the whole thing incredibly boring? The sex was neat like the first 1 or 2 times but after that not even a sex room w paddles fazed me. I just googled spoilers for the 2nd and 3rd books to save myself the time and brain cells.
I agree, reading it in a public place is a little...eeww.
I wouldn't sit and read that in public any more than I would sit with a Playboy or Hustler in public. And I think I would die if my mother asked me about it.
Not a prude! Someone had a fb post earlier this week that said: "Looking for a good book for my girls weekend at the beach...hunger games or fifty shades of grey or something else??" The overwhelming response was for 50 Shades, and the word naughty was used four times in the replies (I counted). Ew.
it is SO poorly written and repetitive, and it actually makes me angry to read, but i do this horrible thing sometimes where i HAVE to know what happens.
this. Stop boring your lip, murmuring, and clambering! Thesaurus?!
ugh! me too. I just started the 3rd book and I feel angry about it. lol. how stupid is that?
I just want it to be over.
Why do I even care?
Ugh - again.
Side note: I read The Lucky One while on a trip and I was SO embarrassed by the cover. it looks like a smut novel. I *almost* just ripped the cover off the book, but instead, made my best effort to keep it folded over the back of the book while reading.
Post by Daria Morgandorffer on May 25, 2012 10:23:19 GMT -5
You know what's really not cool to do on the train? Watching porn on your Ipad. The guy next to me was doing that the other day. He thought he was being sly by facing more toward me so that the screen faced the window. He was not sly. Not cool dude. Not cool AT ALL.
Post by casarosada on May 25, 2012 11:05:27 GMT -5
A friend on facebook just posted something about reading this book and how it's making her blush. I would never read the book but if I did I sure as heck wouldn't announce it to all of my facebook.
You know what's really not cool to do on the train? Watching porn on your Ipad. The guy next to me was doing that the other day. He thought he was being sly by facing more toward me so that the screen faced the window. He was not sly. Not cool dude. Not cool AT ALL.
I would have said EW! really loud. Or I would have called someone and told them "I am sitting next to a guy watching PORN on his IPAD! Gross!" That's how I do things.
I noticed just as we were pulling to a stop at the station- I was getting my things together and dropped something, and he dipped down to help me grab it. The Ipad dipped down too. He quick snapped it back up but realized that I saw it. He turned the brightest shade of red ever and I just gave him the most disgusted face I could manage until I got off the train.
I don't think you are a prude. Lol. My SIL posted a pic on instagram of her kindle in a ziplock bag with the caption " 50 shades of grey in the bath.." I was kinda
I don't think you are a prude. Lol. My SIL posted a pic on instagram of her kindle in a ziplock bag with the caption " 50 shades of grey in the bath.." I was kinda
Post by melindafelinda on May 25, 2012 11:28:57 GMT -5
I had a nightmare last night that our wedding cake decorator was trying to steal my BF by telling him how she was really into 50SOG. I beat her ass for both the book and trying to steal my BF.
Post by pollyprissypants on May 25, 2012 11:29:50 GMT -5
My mother has been driving me crazy about this book. She keeps telling me what an amazing book it is and how she read it 3 times already. She also keeps sending me pictures of actors that she thinks would be great for the part of Christian Grey. It is driving me insane. I started to read it but I just got too annoyed so I haven't got very far.
I don't think you are a prude. Lol. My SIL posted a pic on instagram of her kindle in a ziplock bag with the caption " 50 shades of grey in the bath.." I was kinda