50 Shades of Grey.

[SteveB]

I think feminism has pushed the world so far to equally the women want lay back and submit.

That sentence supposed to make sense?

[Mallardz]

Nope

[SteveB]

All right, just checking.

[Bella Fortuna]

50 shades... all of them dull.

[Kristie]

50 shades... all of them dull.

I strongly disagree! There were dull moments in the book, but I found it to be very stimulating overall.

[SteveB]

Intellectually stimulating, of course. I like the symbolism of the leather or something and the character arcs of the two main characters whoever the fuck they are.

[Bella Fortuna]

50 shades... all of them dull.

I strongly disagree! There were dull moments in the book, but I found it to be very stimulating overall.

I fully respect your right to be wrong.


(just kidding, I haven't read it so am just taking the piss)

[Tero]

No plans to read the book, I just had to read the review by DS from LA:

50 shades of gray review

*UPDATE*: Thanks to the many other perturbed readers who have shared
their own choices of the most annoyingly overused phrases in this
masterpiece. Following up on their suggestions with my ever-useful
Kindle search function, I have discovered that Ana says "Jeez" 81
times and "oh my" 72 times. She "blushes" or "flushes" 125 times,
including 13 that are "scarlet," 6 that are "crimson," and one that is
"stars and stripes red." (I can't even imagine.) Ana "peeks up" at
Christian 13 times, and there are 9 references to Christian's "hooded
eyes," 7 to his "long index finger," and 25 to how "hot" he is
(including four recurrences of the epic declarative sentence "He's so
freaking hot."). Christian's "mouth presses into a hard line" 10
times. Characters "murmur" 199 times, "mutter" 49 times, and "whisper"
195 times (doesn't anyone just talk?), "clamber" on/in/out of things
21 times, and "smirk" 34 times. Christian and Ana also "gasp" 46 times
and experience 18 "breath hitches," suggesting a need for prompt
intervention by paramedics. Finally, in a remarkable bit of symmetry,
our hero and heroine exchange 124 "grins" and 124 "frowns"... which,
by the way, seems an awful lot of frowning for a woman who experiences
"intense," "body-shattering," "delicious," "violent," "all-consuming,"
"turbulent," "agonizing" and "exhausting" orgasms on just about every
page.

[Bella Fortuna]

Should we take up a collection to buy the author a thesaurus?

[Tero]

I don't think I can handle 59 uses of the term "inner goddess"

Really? Yuck!

(haven't gotten near the thing and don't plan to)

I have reality here somewhere. Just needs two AA batteries. It's gray and about 65F and has a slight hum.

[Kristie]

Should we take up a collection to buy the author a thesaurus?

I imagine she can afford damn near anything she wants.

[Bella Fortuna]

I don't think I can handle 59 uses of the term "inner goddess"

Really? Yuck!

(haven't gotten near the thing and don't plan to)

I have reality here somewhere. Just needs two AA batteries. It's gray and about 65F and has a slight hum.

Sounds like my kinda thing.

[hadespussercats]

I don't think I can handle 59 uses of the term "inner goddess"

Really? Yuck!

(haven't gotten near the thing and don't plan to)

I have reality here somewhere. Just needs two AA batteries. It's gray and about 65F and has a slight hum.

Sounds like my kinda thing.

I don't know. I thought you preferred a plug-in model.

[Kristie]

I don't think I can handle 59 uses of the term "inner goddess"

Really? Yuck!

(haven't gotten near the thing and don't plan to)

I have reality here somewhere. Just needs two AA batteries. It's gray and about 65F and has a slight hum.

Sounds like my kinda thing.

I don't know. I thought you preferred a plug-in model.

I'm sure she's an equal opportunity toy user.

[Tero]

No, it doesn't vibrate. It levitates if I'm not looking.

You girls want the glow in the dark pink one.