The impossible happened: I lost even more respect for humanity.

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Fifty 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.

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.

Comments

[heartsick]

OH man. This post is funny because I'm reading Fifty Shades right now. I always read terrible books because I want to understand the jokes people are making (it's how I ended up reading Twilight to begin with). But holy fuck, this book is awful. I mean, it's not even the very sad excuse for a plot (though my sister assures me the other two are less sex and more plot...I am not sure I believe her), it's the writing. It is ATROCIOUS. She repeats herself over and over, describes the same thing a hundred times within two pages, and she NEVER uses commas where she is supposed to. It makes me twitchy. The main character is also a blithering idiot and the sexual mechanics are very, very, very, very, wrong. The bits ripped off from Twilight are crazy obvious, too.

I don't mind smut in regular books, and I don't even mind the "romance" novels that are basically all written porn. I mean, if people want to read it instead of watch it, good for them, I don't care. But holy shit, this is badly written.

Stuff being parodied into porn doesn't surprise me, though. I still remember the day I turned on the TV late at night and stumbled across Lord of the Cock Rings or whatever it was called. And with all the classics being turned into popular "horror" books lately (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, for example), it seems this is the next logical step for marketing. :\

But seriously, this book is awful.