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« Thread Started on Jun 21, 2012, 11:48am » | |
Ok, can someone please tell me the fascination of this new book that everyone is going on about?
I thought it was just woman book porn??
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Middlesbrough was narrowly beaten as the wettest place in Britain in June, by the queue at Waterstones for 50 Shades of Grey
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« Reply #1 on Jun 21, 2012, 1:31pm » | |
a woman friend of mine was curious about this book, I had not heard of it. upon checking it out I was struck by the double standard - if men went wild over something like this we would be branded perverts.
my sisters friend used to read it on the way to work on the bus, but hid it inside a different dust jacket lol
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« Reply #2 on Jun 21, 2012, 5:24pm » | |
Have to admit I have never heard of this book. Who is the author? any one know. 
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« Reply #3 on Jun 22, 2012, 7:25am » | |
I dont think you should read it Barb!
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« Reply #4 on Jul 16, 2012, 8:08pm » | |
most of the bloody builders working in my flat have been talking about the book.
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« Reply #5 on Jul 16, 2012, 9:12pm » | |
It's the worst book I've ever read, I don't know what all the fuss is about. It isn't erotic, it's just some mad woman writing down as many phrases as she can that she thinks are 'sexy' and inbetween those so-called 'sexy' scenes the writing's so poor you'd think it'd been written by a 10 year-old.
Any woman getting excited by this book needs to get out more - or needs to read more books so she can appreciate a good one. 
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« Reply #6 on Jul 16, 2012, 9:13pm » | |
Just to add, I didn't buy the book, it was given to me by my 72 year-old Stepmother, who also couldn't see what all the fuss is about. Some people must just be easily impressed!!
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« Reply #7 on Jul 17, 2012, 6:44am » | |
yeah yeah yeah
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« Reply #8 on Jul 17, 2012, 7:04am » | |
Took your advice Jon, have not read it, but going going by what Jo has said may give it a quick scan. 
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« Reply #9 on Jul 17, 2012, 8:18am » | |
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« Reply #10 on Jul 17, 2012, 9:18am » | |
thats one of the strangest images I have seen
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« Reply #11 on Jul 17, 2012, 1:20pm » | |
hehe. meet Shadow the wolf and Qwackers the duck, and they are mine, but a mad lady friend took them away on holiday, sending me pics of them enjoying themselves lol. a member of staff where she works brought the book in. she was just mucking about.
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« Reply #12 on Oct 7, 2012, 3:54pm » | |
Still getting over fifty shades of grey, but lately I've been hooked on Kenyon's Dark Hunter series and Emma Rose's His Every Desire series. Something about those billionaires... 
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« Reply #13 on Oct 7, 2012, 8:14pm » | |
I dont see the appeal of these mommy porn books
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« Reply #14 on Oct 8, 2012, 2:56pm » | |
Neither do I, and I'm no prude! They're usually all really naff.
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