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

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

he he I've seen enough of this now to know there's no way I'd read it, certainly never PAY for it - why would I want to read about a 21 year old virgin who's never been touched before, having a masochistic affair with an older man who abuses her? That doesn't sound particularly titilating to me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3JCwnwHbU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhWrsVlNgVo&feature=related

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Much rather read about a 21 year old virginal Sam being humped senseless by Dean :)

[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%

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Yeah and without the whole abuse angle - there is a big difference between S&M and something like the scenario in this book which sounds only a hair's breadth from grooming and non con dressed up as S&M.

[antrazi.livejournal.com]

First of all, every small part or quote out of Fifty Shades that I heard or read was actually... awful.
Which brings to question if an editor ever lokked over it before they printed that shit.

Secondly, as an avid SPN fan fiction reader and years of reading HP fan fiction, there is not much that can shock me in terms of porn.
I may seem like a prude as first impression, but somehow I'm always the one that knows all these strange things people do to each other.

The funny thing is that the people who read that book really think they are doing something outrageous by reading a bad BDSM story.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

I know, it's hilarious!
while my colleagues are all cackling and crowing about how naughty it is, I just sit and smile quietly to myself :)

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

"I'm a Supernatural fanfic reader and I've read stuff that would make you blush fifty shades of pink!" LOL, exactly! The sheer number of things I've learned from SPN fandom is kind of scary!

[dreamerelipse.livejournal.com]

My mother asked me what I thought of the book. After the shock wore off. I told her what I heard of it. What I didn't say is, "Why pays for it when kink_memes exist?".