The impossible happened: I lost even more respect for humanity.
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tenoko1Fifty Shades of Grey outstrips Harry Potter to become the fastest selling paperback of all time
I kid you not. Read it here. Granted, I would like to start by saying that I have not, nor will I ever read these books. They are PWP, I find that trashy and reflective of a lack of creativity to write a great book without smut. It's a challenge authors should rise up to meet, rather than contributing to the decline of morality and quality of literature.
That also being said, yes, I have read and did like Twilight. Guilty pleasures, we all have them. Twilight made me laugh and giggle and grin, the first book probably my favorite. You may see this as a complete contradiction, but cie la vie. I also completely love Harry Potter and am saddened by the fact that it had to hand over it's title to published fanfiction.
And it's being made into a movie.
Not to mention, insult to injury: "Publishers are now rushing to bring out more similar erotic fiction – including Jane Eyre Laid Bare, an explicit rewrite of Charlotte Bronte’s novel."
I. Kid. You. Not.
That also being said, yes, I have read and did like Twilight. Guilty pleasures, we all have them. Twilight made me laugh and giggle and grin, the first book probably my favorite. You may see this as a complete contradiction, but cie la vie. I also completely love Harry Potter and am saddened by the fact that it had to hand over it's title to published fanfiction.
And it's being made into a movie.
Not to mention, insult to injury: "Publishers are now rushing to bring out more similar erotic fiction – including Jane Eyre Laid Bare, an explicit rewrite of Charlotte Bronte’s novel."
I. Kid. You. Not.
I have so much RAEG face right now.
Am I the only one that feels like they just heard someone insult a very dear friend and now has full rights to right hook the offending party in order to defend their friend's honor?
Even more insult to injury? This garbage is published and selling like hot cakes. I'm still trying to get an agent when I know (and no, this is not me being prideful or arrogant) that my writing is much better. Smut free, too. Ugh, just when I thought I couldn't lose anymore faith in humanity.
Am I the only one that feels like they just heard someone insult a very dear friend and now has full rights to right hook the offending party in order to defend their friend's honor?
Even more insult to injury? This garbage is published and selling like hot cakes. I'm still trying to get an agent when I know (and no, this is not me being prideful or arrogant) that my writing is much better. Smut free, too. Ugh, just when I thought I couldn't lose anymore faith in humanity.
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Date: 2012-06-20 05:51 pm (UTC)(Seriously, if you have to base your shit off of fucking *Twilight*, and Twilight fanfiction (and BAD fanfiction at that!), that's a Really Bad Sign that This Is Going To Suck More Than Anything Has Ever Sucked Before.)
I have no problem with smut per se, but there's a big difference between good smut and smut that's so godawful it reads more like a fricken adolesecent giggling over naughty bits in class. Out of curiosity one day, when I was in a Target, I flipped through the first book, Gray, and couldn't get through one paragraph without snorting and going "WTF is this shit?!? People LIKE this crap?!?" The characterization is just hideous.
(Also - WTF is up with these morons writing women as totally spineless dipshits who only get better once they have The Perfect Man?! That makes me even angrier than the bad smut.)
I haven't even read your writing, and I'd bet serious money that it's far superior to 50 Shades.
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Date: 2012-06-20 05:55 pm (UTC)I haven't even read your writing, and I'd bet serious money that it's far superior to 50 Shades.
Well thank you! Hopefully I'll be fifty times as successful as well.