Triple shot

[nialla42]

Forbes: Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey, anyone?)

I love the first line: "Perhaps it should be called Spamazon." Also, I actually got a chance to go shopping in the real world and saw the 50 Shades of Gray trilogy on sale in Target. FSM wept garlic tears.

Sinfest: Perfect Storm of Pain

I think I may make an icon out of the second panel,

Comments

[lunachickk]

Skynet had me all a-giggle this morning.

[or_mabinogi]

If he hadn't given the date I would've guessed Skynet became self-aware on 4/20.

[sidlj]

I was going through my old WIP/story ideas folder this weekend, and I found the notes for a Jack/Daniel story covering the time period spanning episodes 3x17 (Jack is stranded on Edora with Laira) and 3x18 (Jack goes undercover and tells Daniel there's not much foundation.)

Naturally this story is titled A Hundred Shades of Grey, which now amuses me. *g*

[nialla42]

At least you'd have better sex scenes. ;)

[reedfem]

Don't vomit, but the author of Fifty Shades of Grey is in Time magazine as one of their 100 most influential people in the world in the "Breakout" subdivision...

[imkalena]

Bleeding hell.

[nialla42]

Ditto.

I'm also conveniently forgetting that one person asked for the series in the library. It was on a day I was out and my part-time employee mentioned it to me. Unless someone else asks, I'm avoiding it.

I know I shouldn't on librarian principles, but damn, this whole thing just kills me on general principles.

[imkalena]

Well, number one, I'm astounded that a writer of women's porn (which I obviously hold in high regard, porn, I mean) is legitimized as influential ANYTHING -- nobody's going to put any writer of men's porn in there

[aurora_novarum]

So, what is this Shades of Grey thing? I never heard of it until last week and now every news show and morning DJ is talking about it. Is it true it was Twilight Fanfic?

Is this coolish or Cassie Claireish?

Do I even want to know?

[justalurkr]

I have yet to read any undiluted positive reviews or articles about it. The 4/23/2012 cover story from Newsweek mentioned it as an example of literature for women who want to be spanked but don't want to own wanting to be spanked. The bare bones description of the first book's plot sounded pretty dismal. Ingenue so adores hero that she'll try anything to please him even though BDSM is Not Her Thing. The whole thing started on ff.net as a Twilight AU, if I recall correctly.

[nialla42]

I've read excerpts. It's so poorly written, it makes me flinch.

I know too many fanfic authors who could write circles around it, and it seems the only reasons it succeeded is (a) it's Twilight's tropes all over again, sans vampires, and (b) a large chunk of the Twilight fandom itself acted as a launching pad and cheerleaders.

[archersangel]

this helps explain things;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Shades_of_Grey