To think fifty shades of grey is a nightmare?

[keely027]

Being tied up and bossed about by a man doesn't make me go weak at the knees? Or am I just weird?

I'd much rather read mumsnet in my spare time actually than plough through that crap in 50SOG. Nothing wrong with sub/dom different sexual tastes etc but the whole big rich man controlling meek submissive virgin just leaves me cold tbh.

Just been on hols and every 2nd woman around the pool was reading it. Yawn.

I imagine all these yummy mummies getting their bits twitchy in full public view would have been less impressed if a bloke had pulled out his pornography in front of the dc's.

I really, really despair of my gender sometimes.

I didn't know about the unborn baby bit

My mum, who's 82, mentioned it to me the other day. She said a lot of women are reading it you know. I said to her not to bother reading it as it's so badly written she'd baulk. I know she'll be off to Waterstones to get it though She lives with her dp who's almost 55. Been together 20 years. She's very with it

I ordered the story of O from Amazon. Dp's already read it years ago and said we should get it. I've wanted it for ages though even before this Grey malarkey.

Not sure what you were linking there Reality - was it Bizzybiz or Cassandra Parkin? (both are great)

I imagine all these yummy mummies getting their bits twitchy in full public view would have been less impressed if a bloke had pulled out his pornography in front of the dc's.

Depends if the bloke's porn is fiction or photographs of a REAL person.

I am seriously considering picking up book 2 just so I can snigger knowingly at the read-along.

You should read the other one too!

ive not read it so can't really say, but i did feel queesy on sat, as a mother int he park was totally ignoring her young children probably age 2 and 3
while reading this book for about 2 hours, totally ingorning the kids who were hitting each other etc
it was as if she couldnt put it down for a second

Well, I was pretty glued to my early Stephen King, tbh, but perhaps for very different reasons

i'm sure solid. TBH though i wouldn't actively seek to read it. sometimes there is a sex scene in a book i am reading which is fine but I don't want to read erotic fiction.

i did read Lady Chatterly's lover and Jackie Collins stuff when i was younger.

No, its poorly written and offensive.

YANBU the thing I don't get is people who post on fb that they plan to spend the evening with Mr Grey. Why would anyone announce that they are going to strum themselves to everyone they know.

actually it was almost like the mum in the park wanted everyone to see what she was reading.

I defriended a few peeps on FB for that, nuilt

"Mr Grey, my ideal man. Wish my hubby was Mr Grey"

FGS, we all need an abusive bloke, don't we ? Just what the doctor ordered.

wonder if the author was paid upfront or has a share in the profits?

Dreadfully written and dull, and (I think) relatively tame, book

He (Grey) kept referring to her as 'baby' from quite early on, that would have been enough for me to discard him, without all the rest.

My 16yo dd picked it up in Asda.

Like that relationship is really one for the teenage girls to think is ok.

I don't fucking think so. And because all the yummy mummies are getting their bits twitchy by the pool/at the park/in the hospital waiting room ffs, it normalises it.

Bad news, to me

And because all the yummy mummies are getting their bits twitchy by the pool/at the park/in the hospital waiting room ffs, it normalises it.

Just as allowing a topless women in a daily newspaper normalises it.
Now that's totally wrong imo.

I don't agree with that either, Maisy.

Yet it goes on Any. You'd think someone would have pulled the plug on that by now wouldn't you?

I will not be wasting any of my time reading this tripe. My mother was asking me about it, and I told her not to bother due to the reviews. She still went out and got it, and is actually enjoying it

I think she is having a mid life crisis.

Nothing wrong in my opinion of sub/dom, but this book isn't a good representative judging from what everyone is saying.

I enjoyed reading all 3 but it reminded me of a teenage novel really and was poorly written. Probably belongs with the Twilight saga

Curiousmama I've almost finished reading The story of O. Now that is a good read, much more erotic than 50SOG imo

YABU if you don't like it then don't read it. The fact that others do is nobody else's business

It saddens me it was written by a woman - seemed quite misogynist to me. I found Christian Grey a horrible man.