Fifty Shades of yada yada ...

[dizzojay]

Okay, I'll admit, I haven't read it yet, but, I just can't seem to share my friends/acquaintances/neighbours/colleagues/etc. gleeful enthusiasm at reading this apparently ovary-busting raunchiness.

Not when I can read stuff that would make that look like the adventures of the Secret Seven any time I want on any number of fanfic websites, and for FREE!!!

So kiss it, all you people who think you're being so outrageous and illicit and who think I'm boring and prudey for not being all that interested in reading it.

I'm a Supernatural fanfic reader and I've read stuff that would make you blush fifty shades of pink!

Comments

[heavenli24.livejournal.com]

I refused to read it when it was a Twilight fanfic, so there is no way I am paying money to read it now.

I briefly flirted with the Twilight fandom back in 2009 (I left it pretty quickly though as I soon discovered the fanfic was terrible - both in terms of bad plots and bad writing) and I had the fanfic version of these books bookmarked ready to read... but the day before I sat down to read it, the author pulled it off the internet and told people if they wanted to read it they had to wait until it was published as (so-called) 'original' fiction and they could pay to read it then ('so-called' because all she changed were the names and a few of the descriptions - according to an online comparison the books are 89% the same as the fanfic).

I managed to get hold of a pdf copy of it back in late 2009 and started reading on my Kindle - I didn't get past the first couple of chapters though before I gave up. It's not even that it's really smutty or anything, it's just badly written and badly edited (apparently still contains all the same typos/bad grammar from when it was posted online and is full of British phrases when it's set in the US and has American characters) - which was okay for a fanfic, but nowhere near good enough for 'real world' publishing.

I have nothing against fanfic writers trying to publish original fiction, or even taking one of their fanfics and re-writing it with new, original characters and an improved plot, but I don't agree with just taking a poorly-written, but popular, fanfic, changing the names of the characters and passing it off as original fiction (and relying on the massive fanbase who will lap up any old fanfic drivel to make it sell).

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Exactly!!!! I really cannot understand why the publishers would have gone with this particular one - surely there are much more promising fanfic writers out there if you are going to 'raid' that world for porn.

I've heard enough extracts to agree with your assessment 100%