to wish that every person I speak to would stop trying to shove '50 shades of grey' at me??

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Everywhere I go, everyone I speak to seems to ask me if I have read it and when I say 'no', they try and persuade me that I really should blah blah.

I am stubbornly digging my heels in and refusing to bow to the hype with this book but wish my friends and colleagues would just stop (one of my colleagues told me today that her and her DP had sex 4 times on Sunday because of the book - I sat there wondering how me and DH would fit sex in 4 times with the DC running around )

Seriously is it not just porn under another guise??

I wouldn't say I 'look down my nose' at people who like these 50 Shades books... I think it is good that people who don't often read books are getting drawn into these series I just fecking hate the never ending stream of memes and facebook pictures about them... it is driving me insane. It is seriously annoying to have these constant comments of 'oooh you must read'... I got bought the Twilight series for Christmas a few years ago, and as I pretty much read anything that falls into my lap, I trogged through them. I remember thinking I might have enjoyed them as a twelve year old.

I resent people trying to offload their religion or political views on me, and people who wouldn't dream of doing those things do not seem to understand that nagging about this red room business is the same deal. You are the porn equivalent of Jehovah's Witnesses...

Just realised the 12 year old comment made it sound like I was looking down my nose... I just meant I was going through a vampire stage then, kept my window open every night for Lestat to fly in... :D

YANBU, OP. I read it (out of curiosity, as I was hearing about it constantly). Personally, I thought it was badly written shite - and not at all erotic, seriously, I have had a more racy sex live than Christian 'supposed BDSM enthusiast' Grey. The writing in the Sweet Valley High books I read when I was 8 was of a higher standard. One handed read? Only because my other hand was holding back my hair while I vomited at the insipid main character's incessant lip-biting, gasping, and breath hitching (wtf does that even mean??).

However, if people enjoy it (and many of my friends apparently have enjoyed it), then fair enough. Each to their own and all. I'd just prefer actual erotica, as opposed to sex scenes I could have written when I was 15 .

Shadows try any one of the Black Lace books instead. Also erotica aimed at women but the writing is much better.

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Thanks, carernotasaint, have just been on Amazon, Black Lace it is then .

What you need, OP, is one of [http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180921391897?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649]].

Or, if you prefer, one of these.

HTH

Oh bum. If you want a badge that says 'Not read it, not going to read it' you want to go here

gibbous yes Bring up the Bodies is good - read Wolf Hall first though ( now in paperback I think). I love Hilary Mantel and I love the Tudors, so bliss.

People have been recommending a BDSM-lite book to me? I just assumed it was a new Jodi Picoult book that was out, and nodded politely!

Bondage, domination, dominance and submission, sadism, masochism.

HTH

Thanks for all the responses and glad to see that I am not being unreasonable

I agree that I have no problem with others reading it if they want to but it is the incessant "but you must read it etc" comments that go on and on even when I have clearly said no! I do have a mind of my own and I have chosen not to get sucked in to the hype

Flyingspghetti yes, I know what you mean about Twilight and being 12 I actually upset me frined inadvertantly yesterday when she was trying to insist that I read the crap trying to persuade me that I would enjoy the 50 shades books...she asked me if I had read the Twilight books to which I replied 'no I am not 18 fgs' to which she responded that she had read them and really enjoyed them (she is older than me!)

I actually really enjoy rom-com books (think Marian Keyes-type stuff) so I do not read highbrow books by any stretch of the imagination - but at least those kind of books are well-read.

And the 'read it one-handed' comment is just ewwww it just reminds me of the joke about pages of pron mags being stuck together

I just don't get it. It's like we're all 12 again and have just discovered Judy Blume.

Thanks.

YANBU I have no intention of reading it either. I can think of a hundred books I would much rather read.

OP YANBU, I have had the same, I am an avid reader, I also read very quickly. I get many recommendations as everyone knows I am a bookworm, but I refuse to read this.

My sister tried to press her copy on me, I read the first three chapters and could not go on, had to return it and tell her she needed her head tested if she thought that was a good book.
Makes Mills and Boon look high brow.

DH has just bought it for me... He thinks it wil give me some ideas... I think I've been insulted! (4 months post birth, massivley tired and my pelvic floor is, well, on the floor!)
Maybe we should start a campaign to promote a different book. If the fasion is erotica at the moment we should all start posting everywhere about a decent one!

Big brown nut, I love your theory - like a day in the triffids scenario where everyone who liked at the lights/reads the book goes blind and only we, the non fifty shaders can fight the plants...
We could set up an erotica book club- ,not Richard and Judy but dick and...can't think of anything funny here.
Disclaimer: I have a vested interest I used to write black lace stuff.

Flobbadobs, hey I am trying

Love it, SGB

Right, I have just had a quick look at the MN Shades of Grey thread (I am at work ) - the thread is hilarious but is the book really written like that?? It sounds even worse than I am imagining!

I have no idea which part of the book inspired my friend to have so much sex last week - I am guessing they were maybe doing it after each chapter they were reading (her DP is also reading it)?