/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2865835]

Thoughts on Fifty Shades of Grey?

[Anonymous No.2865840]

I'd rather read about a girl with low self-esteem who walks around with balloons in her shirt.

[Anonymous No.2865841]

Requesting the photo of Christopher Hitchens(?) and Fifty Shades of Grey author comparison.

[Anonymous No.2865849]

>>2865840
Would you fuck a girl with balloons under her shirt, but was otherwise flat-chested? Keep in mind, you can change the size to suit your preferences day to day.

[Anonymous No.2865847]

>>2865835
Let's be honest and cut the bullshit, friend. You didn't want to know what we think of that book series. I'm sure you know what we think about that book series.

You wanted us to comment on that young woman's breasts. Sir, I am shocked that you would have so little faith in this Literature board. We talk about literature, and if you want to talk about a young woman's breasts, there are plenty of boards which have been created for that purpose.

[Anonymous No.2865852]

Guys maybe she is just really fat

[Anonymous No.2865855]

>>2865847
I'm not your friend. I am posting a literature related question on a literature forum. You're just butthurt I didn't choose a more literature related pic. I was lazy and just chose a random image.

[Anonymous No.2865858]

>>2865841
i hate you

[Anonymous No.2865863]

>>2865855
We are all friend here.

>>2865841
Still requesting, it was a visual comparison.

[Standard Toaster !TOASTxk3L. No.2865870]

I jokingly opened the second book, Fifty Shades Darker, today at work and read it aloud to my coworkers.
I could feel my life changing (for the better) with each word that I read. It was great.
I'm absolutely kidding. I opened to chapter eleven and it was terrible. Chapter ten ended with a quote along the lines of "I'm going to bend you over this billiard table and fuck you in the ass." and the main girl character getting all excited.
Chapter eleven was about how great Christian Grey is at billiards, and literally contained the sentence "Holy fuck, he's so damn sexy."
It then showed me how quickly a billiards game could evolve into a explicitly sexual encounter.
Then, there was a discussion with another girl about how Anastasia Steele (the main character) is lucky because she "gets to call the Master by his actual name."
It was literally the worst book I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.2865871]

>>2865841
yw

[Anonymous No.2865873]

>>2865835
Myspace angles not working, whale in sight!

[Standard Toaster !TOASTxk3L. No.2865874]

>>2865870
into *an explicitly sexual encounter

[Anonymous No.2865887]

Fifty shades seems to be the book that has got many people who have never read a book in their life to do so. You might think that's a good thing, but it's not. Reading fifty shades of grey does not make you appear intellectual or intelligent, it makes you look like a moron. I'm not being pretentious or elitist. There are so many pieces of literature which could be a great introduction to adults that are not big readers; The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in The Rye, Ham on Rye, Clockwork Orange, but no the drones of morons read a book about a girl who has beads inserted into her anus

[Anonymous No.2865911]

>>2865871
Thanks

[Anonymous No.2865930]

I found it worse than Twilight, and I didn't think anyone could write something legitimately worse than Twilight.

[Anonymous No.2865934]

at least they are no hipster plebs feeling patrician because the beat the monkey while reading Beat Writers

[Anonymous No.2865939]

Making fun of best-sellers is far more infantile than reading them.

[superior tropical rainforest confirmed grand master elite race patrician perfection beauty !!MkOVShAyNk/ No.2865948]

>>2865939
except when they're indications of society's plummeting spiral into ignoramacy and overall idiocy

[Anonymous No.2865956]

>>2865948
>implying society has always been cultured and highly educated to the brim until now, idiocy and functional literacy are such new phenomena.

[Anonymous No.2865959]

What is the purpose of this book? Can you fap to it? How do you feel after reading it? Can I fap to it?

[Anonymous No.2865961]

>>2865959
Try it...

trollface.jpg

>prerequisites: having a vagina and being retarded

[Anonymous No.2865966]

Ok, I'm going to read this book. My ex (when she was 14) wanted me to tie her up and "be rough with her." Are most women like this?

[Anonymous No.2865968]

>>2865966
Wrong place to ask about woman pal.

[Anonymous No.2865974]

>>2865966
>Are most women like this?
lurk moar, kiddo.

[Anonymous No.2866406]

Okay so apparently I'm the only one whose read the first book (some guy on the internet read the whole book so I was technically listening to it).
Yes, it was awful. The writing was just terrible. It was soooooo repetitive! The main character calls the Christian dude hot sooooo many fucking times! I'm not even kidding at least twice a chapter there was a paragraph about how hot Christian was. Theres also a reoccurring thing where Christian doesn't like main chick bitting her lip because it turns him on or something, and he mentions it sooooo fucking much! There's also extensive conversations between Christian and main chick over email. Seriously minutes and minutes of just them emailing each other! That is NOT a very effective way to keep people interested in discussion between the 2 characters.

[Anonymous No.2866414]

Also this Hose guy gets friend zoned about every other chapter. Also I am pretty offended that they make this Christian guy freaking rich and gives the main chick cars as gift and shit. Talk about unrealistic. Another thing is that the two main characters just don't stay away from each other, if they wawy from each other, they are in constant email contact or the Christian guy is using his private jet or some shit to fly over to her after being away from a few days or something. Also, most of the book was this. There wasn't very many sex or BDSM scenes at all. The author didn't totally mess up those, but still not hot and I hate people comparing blow jobs to lollipops. Stop doing that. Overall, really bad book, awful writing. I never read Twilight but this just has to be worse. And seriously its the top best seller? It is horrible. If someone is planning on reading it please count the number of times the main chick goes on a rant about how hot christian is, how many times hose gets friend zoned, and how many times christian mentions the lip biting thing. The only "good" things (to be fair) is like I said, the kinky scenes were the least awful, and I liked when the main chick vomited all over christain. And no you can't fap to it.

[Anonymous No.2866420]

Also this guy is reading the whole trilogogy where I listened to the first book: http://www.youtube.com/user/kyl3k91
I like how he starts this off as a joke and even acknowledges how bad this book is yet most of the comments are like "Christian is SOOO hot" or "NEXT VIDEO PLEASE OMG CANT WWAAAIITTT"

[Anonymous No.2866438]

>>2866414
Also there's also a running gag (not sure what else to call it) of Christian bugging the main character to eat because of course the main character is skinny. Count how many times that happens.

[Anonymous No.2866481]

>has thread about shitty book on lust, etc
>people post about OP's tits
I see what you did there OP

[Anonymous No.2866485]

It was so steamy it broke my friend's e-reader. The pages started flickering and changing then it died.

[Anonymous No.2866506]

>>2866406
>Writes like a 13 y/o girl
>Uses "sooooo" multiple times in the same paragraph while complaining about repitation
>Complaining about them using email for several pages on an imageboard

I really hope that post was made in jest. If not, you should probably wait till you're at least 16 to come on 4chan

[Anonymous No.2866521]

>>2866506
>ad-hominem criticism

Wanna go for a double?

[Anonymous No.2866534]

>>2866521
DOUBLES GET

[Anonymous No.2866617]

>>2865887

You wouldn't want to start an adult who isn't a big reader off on ANY of those books. Sure they're fantastic works, but if you hardly read, you'd want to start off on an easier book. Such as Twilight, 50 shades etc.
I'm not celebrating those books, but at least they provide an easy starting point.

[Anonymous No.2866625]

Why do people try to criticize this book within the context of erotica, as if its treatment of BDSM, its patently bad prose, and unimaginative (in this case, stolen) plot is somehow *worse* than the standard fare for this genre?

[Anonymous No.2866634]

>>2866625
because once something gets popular, a society has to ask themselves "Should this be read, overall?"

A few guys can watch amputee porn, but if it's just a few guys doing it, nobody cares. If 30,000,000 people read 50 Shades, then we as a society have the right to question whether it "should" be read.