Anyway, Erica Jong was mostly pissed about the gravy train/Hollywood adaptation aspect of the brouhaha around this book.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
And its failure to be a proper "book of one hand"
A very cynical part of me says this is a calculated 'make' book in the way of Twilight, Julie and Julia, that David Benioff book about Soviet cannibals, the Dragon Tattoo, Hunger Games, Wimpy Kid, etc.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
... this a book for pooping? or does that phrase mean something else?
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Think again.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/i/partypictures/05_16_12/erica/fiftyshades.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Everybody Arghs
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
'make' = deliberately manufactured as a hit i.e. printed in huge runs on cheap paper and distributed in major lots w/ blitz/word-of-mouth advertising/in spite of reviews/tons. best comparison is, like, a blockbuster movie's PR campagin.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
airport books?
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't there already enough anal probing going on with airport security?
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
TSA workers wear harlequin masks and grey contacts, it's a whole new experience
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
Wait - it's not even a one handed read? That was the only reason I thought for a nanosecond about reading it. Dammit.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://perezhilton.com/2012-05-22-50-shades-of-grey-read-by-gilbert-gottfried
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
i have doubts this will be made into a movie, idk, i think maybe hollywood can handle some light B&D, but maybe not S&M (or poopers & wangs)
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
“I finished the series three weeks ago. I miss Christian Grey. I miss him so much,” said attendee Mabel, who donned a silver tie, a nod to the front cover of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
E.L. James’s New York City book tour stop for her hot bestseller, “Fifty Shades of Grey” felt more like a Justin Bieber concert for an older group of women than a book signing. But when you keep in mind the author’s claim that the novel “brings women together,” the energetic atmosphere is to be expected.The British author tried to explain the mass appeal of her series, which follows the multifaceted relationship between a recent college graduate named Anastasia Steele and a wealthy CEO with a flair for kinky sex, Christian Grey, to sexologist Dr. Logan Levkoff in front of a packed, hooting and hollering audience of about 200 at Barnes and Noble Union Square on Thursday evening.“I don’t get [the books' popularity] at all,” said James. “I wrote this little love story…But it brings women together. I think that’s it.”
The British author tried to explain the mass appeal of her series, which follows the multifaceted relationship between a recent college graduate named Anastasia Steele and a wealthy CEO with a flair for kinky sex, Christian Grey, to sexologist Dr. Logan Levkoff in front of a packed, hooting and hollering audience of about 200 at Barnes and Noble Union Square on Thursday evening.
“I don’t get [the books' popularity] at all,” said James. “I wrote this little love story…But it brings women together. I think that’s it.”
http://www.thejanedough.com/el-james-fifty-shades-of-grey/
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
James has said before that she wrote her books during her morning commute to work on the train, which begs the question: How can someone pen intense sexual experiences on public transit, which is just about the unsexiest place imaginable? James laughed at the question posed by Dr. Levkoff and said she got carried away in her own world of writing by listening to music.“[I would sometimes] get lost in writing and miss my stop,” she said, adding she had a “Let’s Write Some Sex” playlist she’d turn on.Though “Fifty Shades of Grey” has some very dirty sex scenes, James assured the crowd she’s a “dull and boring” person who’s looking forward to “four weeks of sleep” and time to redo her kitchen after the tour.
“[I would sometimes] get lost in writing and miss my stop,” she said, adding she had a “Let’s Write Some Sex” playlist she’d turn on.
Though “Fifty Shades of Grey” has some very dirty sex scenes, James assured the crowd she’s a “dull and boring” person who’s looking forward to “four weeks of sleep” and time to redo her kitchen after the tour.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
e. l. james, what's on YOUR ipod??
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
You guys I don't think we published this, this is not my fault, put down those baseball bats, please.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
OK. So this isn't about the Monkees's song *backs out quietly*
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
can we start a "Donald Glover as Christian Grey" tumblr
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:40 AM (2 minutes ago)
airport books exactly, but 'made' books tend not to be serialized or from established authors. IOW it's a way for publishers to maximise profits: take a small book by a no-name (or INTERNET FAMOUS) author writing an acknowledged genre w/ niche (and usually female, preferably young and uncritical) fanbase and print copies on the cheapo and bind w/ glue, flood book blogs/internet retailers/bookstores with promotional materials, get people talking about the book and then dump 100 copies in every b&m store at a v. reduced price. profit.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:45 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
Erica Jong says no. I haven't read it myself.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
the scene I read was practically no-handed
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
'Let's Write Some Sex' is somehow the saddest phrase I've read all morning.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
practically no-handed
Quite ambiguous...
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hb00ZP8AJbg/0.jpg
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
;_; at this ladyI miss Christian Grey. I miss him so much,” said attendee Mabel, who donned a silver tie
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
the worst thing about that is that is the name of one of my wife's grandmothers
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
the worst thing is that she is wearing a silver tie
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
I miss Christian Grey. I miss him so much,” said attendee Mabel, who donned a silver tie AND NOTHING ELSE
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
completely misread "one of my wife's" as "one of my wives"
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
Her words are reminding me of the lyrics to Call Me Maybe, this was a mashup I never asked for.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
signed, Black Mitt Romney
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
Should be good for a boatload of (un)surprising racism lols!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
imho as far as commercially successful erotic BDSM novels go, this sounds awful and boring. at least the sleeping beauty trilogy had a cat licking butter off the main character's nipples.
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
I agree that this sounds tasteless and boring. I'm more interested in the fact that people are so starved for material that they will apparently gobble this up ^^ in this fashion.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
it seems an inefficient way to distribute butter, even given the serving vessel
― remy bean, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
courtesy of facebook, where elsehttps://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/561383_10150795670397373_527187372_10067494_2105284245_n.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Does "not a one-handed read" refer to the literal size of the book or to something about its insufficiently porn-y prose?
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
the sleeping beauty trilogy had a cat licking butter off the main character's nipples.
Trust me, that WILL wake you up.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
It's not material, nec, it's "approved" material. Transgression without having to consider whether this makes you any different as a person than you already saw yourself as. The imprimatur of the book-that-shall-not-be-named's success gives this legitimacy above other BDSM books, which you would have to go to a different section of the bookstore to get, etc.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
how likely is it that I could get published a novella titled "And Then He Spanked Me"?
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
e. l. james, what's on YOUR ipod??― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:50 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:50 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
http://www.eljamesauthor.com/music/fifty-shades-of-grey-soundtrack
― Number None, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
DJ Potter's "And Then He Spanked Me" is so sizzling hot that it will be topping the charts all summer...Get it in ebook today!
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
Lakmé (Act I): Flower Duet Alain Lombard, Mady Mesple, Danielle Millet & Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique
okay guys, maybe we've been too harsh
Sex On Fire Kings of Leon
never mind, light up the torches and grab the pitchforks
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
that playlist has subzero imagination
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
Snow patrol, good lord.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm already working my own BDSM novel, "90 Grades of Shea" about a mysterious and domineering adjunct professor named Christopher Shea. How far will she go to remove that incomplete?
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Spem in alium Harry Christophers & The Sixteen
man it's sad how much I'm willing to forgive her for her horrible books just by virtue of putting this out there
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
yet ANOTHER way 50 shades is ripping off twilight, stephenie meyer notoriously rewrote twilight from edward's perspective and then canned it after a rough draft leaked to the internet. legend had it that robert pattinson traded his copy for drugs, but that's probably apocryphal.
― the jackal-snouted problem man (reddening), Thursday, 4 June 2015 06:44 (eight years ago) link
You knew this was gonna happen...
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12278656_10153726563164889_3445818379510825209_n.jpg?oh=52f1d1ea414599a6202aa5cd42e58ba2&oe=56F94ACD
― Boz Scaggs was Adele back in 1976 (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4667094/?ref_=m_nmfmd_act_1
― Professor Goodfeels (kingfish), Thursday, 19 November 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
do you get it, the tie is an erect penis
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 November 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
they've been showing this on hbo... this movie is hilarious, constant lols
― • (sleepingbag), Friday, 22 January 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
http://variety.com/2016/film/news/kim-basinger-fifty-shades-darker-1201689084/
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 January 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
butt room
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Thursday, 12 December 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
lmao she actually wrote the three Fifty Shades books again, from Christian's perspective? Jesus GOD, that's like the "Megahertz" episode of Weird Science (tv version).
also managed to get an actual non-50 shades book published: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mister
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Jezebel reviewed it, lmao
https://jezebel.com/e-l-jamess-the-mister-fucks-a-duck-1834456299
― Doop Snogg (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
She has a new one about a Jewish mobster from Brooklyn who's addicted to sunglasses:
Fifty Shades Freed
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link