slaves, tell me about 50 Shades of Grey

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'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.

airport books?

Isn't there already enough anal probing going on with airport security?

TSA workers wear harlequin masks and grey contacts, it's a whole new experience

Wait - it's not even a one handed read? That was the only reason I thought for a nanosecond about reading it. Dammit.

http://perezhilton.com/2012-05-22-50-shades-of-grey-read-by-gilbert-gottfried

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)

“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.”

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.”

http://www.thejanedough.com/el-james-fifty-shades-of-grey/

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.

e. l. james, what's on YOUR ipod??

You guys I don't think we published this, this is not my fault, put down those baseball bats, please.

OK. So this isn't about the Monkees's song *backs out quietly*

can we start a "Donald Glover as Christian Grey" tumblr

airport books?

― 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.

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, May 22, 2012 9:45 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

Erica Jong says no. I haven't read it myself.

the scene I read was practically no-handed

'Let's Write Some Sex' is somehow the saddest phrase I've read all morning.

practically no-handed

Quite ambiguous...

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hb00ZP8AJbg/0.jpg

;_; at this lady
I miss Christian Grey. I miss him so much,” said attendee Mabel, who donned a silver tie

the worst thing about that is that is the name of one of my wife's grandmothers

the worst thing is that she is wearing a silver tie

I miss Christian Grey. I miss him so much,” said attendee Mabel, who donned a silver tie AND NOTHING ELSE

completely misread "one of my wife's" as "one of my wives"

Her words are reminding me of the lyrics to Call Me Maybe, this was a mashup I never asked for.

completely misread "one of my wife's" as "one of my wives"

signed, Black Mitt Romney

can we start a "Donald Glover as Christian Grey" tumblr

Should be good for a boatload of (un)surprising racism lols!

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.

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.

it seems an inefficient way to distribute butter, even given the serving vessel

courtesy of facebook, where else
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/561383_10150795670397373_527187372_10067494_2105284245_n.jpg

Does "not a one-handed read" refer to the literal size of the book or to something about its insufficiently porn-y prose?

the sleeping beauty trilogy had a cat licking butter off the main character's nipples.

Trust me, that WILL wake you up.

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 likely is it that I could get published a novella titled "And Then He Spanked Me"?

e. l. james, what's on YOUR ipod??

― 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

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!

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 playlist has subzero imagination

Snow patrol, good lord.

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?

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

I thought it said sperm first

it's a seriously amazing piece of music; 40-part a capella organized into 8 5-part choruses with all kinds of crazy Renaissance counterpoint

I've been lucky enough to do it twice

As far as I understand it, it's a BDSM Twilight fan-fic that got purchased by Stephanie Meyer's publisher, dickered w/ to remove copyright infringements and stand slightly more alone, and became an extra-big bestseller.

― remy bean, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 7:48 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait wait is this actually true?? that is super fucked up

fanfic/slash fic writers really are the most disgusting savages

It's true, although apparently the connection to Twighlight was pretty tenuous anyway and it didn't take that much to rid it of any similarity.

shit, it is true

The Fifty Shades trilogy was developed from a Twilight fanfiction originally titled Master of the Universe and published episodically on fanfiction websites under the penname "Snowqueen's Icedragon." The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in Twilight, Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fanfiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she rewrote Master of the Universe as an original piece with the principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and removed it from her website prior to publication.[1]

butt room

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

Jezebel reviewed it, lmao

https://jezebel.com/e-l-jamess-the-mister-fucks-a-duck-1834456299

She has a new one about a Jewish mobster from Brooklyn who's addicted to sunglasses:

Fifty Shades Freed