50 Shades of Grey -- Hope for us?

[Snail Shell]

Isn't this the book that was twilight fanfiction until the lady decided she wanted to publish it?

Yes.

From the LA Times:


"James' agent told Deadline, "This did start as 'Twilight' fan fiction, inspired by Stephenie Meyer’s wonderful series of books. Originally it was written as fan fiction, then Erika [E.L. James] decided to take it down after there were some comments about the racy nature of the material. She took it down and thought, I’d always wanted to write. I’ve got a couple unpublished novels here. I will rewrite this thing, and create these iconic characters, Christian and Anna. If you read the books, they are nothing like 'Twilight' now." Her American publisher told the Associated Press that James' "Masters of the Universe" (which was fan fiction) and "50 Shades of Grey" are "two distinctly separate pieces of work."

Apparently, the author is now going around the net trying to eliminate pages that tell of the origin of the stories. Copyright laws and all.

SS

 

[Dussicar]

Up until this thread, I hadn't even known this book existed.

From what others here are saying about it, I figure the same thing. Pretty much all vanillas will concentrate on the sexuallity and consider the kink just a little sidequest.

What we really need to do is introduce a super duper cool character to every new and existing sitcom that is currently broadcast all over the world. But I have a sweet schtick angle...ready?

They have some type of freakish sexual deviency! And they openly flaunt it in a super duper cool way!

If we do this, our fetish should be openly accepted in five years time. At least that's what my internal mental biological calculator tells me....but sometimes it LIES!

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

Twilight is, apparently, the saga of one girl's choice between beastiality and necrophilia.

Been there.

 

[DontAskJusTckle]

I confess I've never heard of the book, but the description reminds me of a really awful chick flick I once saw called 9 1/2 Weeks with Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke.

 

[Cokecan]

Been there.

Really? Which did you end up picking? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Soda Bobinski]

Twilight is, apparently, the saga of one girl's choice between beastiality and necrophilia.

Been there.

Really? Which did you end up picking? Inquiring minds want to know.

Both?

'Cause , y'know ... dead animals FTW.

 

[Angel77]

I don't think that this book will change the way the vanilla population sees BDSM. There was a best-selling BDSM novel in the 1960's, The Story of O by Pauline Reage. It had no long-lasting effect despite being much talked about at the time.

This. The hoopla will fade away soon enough and it'll be back to the ol' drawing board for us, to be there for those that seek it out (much like The Story of O).

 

[Skipadeedoodah]

Both?

'Cause , y'know ... dead animals FTW.

You, sir, know me far too well 😛

 

[SoundSiren]

If only books published and edited by Violet Blue could become popular. I've been encouraging anyone that wants to read 50 Shades of Grey to read one of the annual Best of Women's Erotica she puts out every year instead. 😀

Linky link for those not familiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Blue_(author)

There's a few stories in some of them that have a little tickle action too. 🙂

BTW, Marquis told me that he read a few days ago 50 Shades of Grey was put through a plagiary test by someone that wrote an article on it's similarities to Twilight. It was 89% the same when ran against Twilight. FAIL. I read the first 5 pages on Amazon and facepalmed my way through every paragraph.

EDIT: Found the article. Actually the same one from LA Times Blog quoted earlier. Here goes!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/05/the-origins-of-50-shades-of-grey-go-missing.html
"That point was countered by romance-focused site Dear Author, which compared the two works side by side. In one test, using the plagiarism-checker TurnItIn, the texts had 89% similarity."

 

[Cokecan]

If only books published and edited by Violet Blue could become popular. I've been encouraging anyone that wants to read 50 Shades of Grey to read one of the annual Best of Women's Erotica she puts out every year instead. 😀

Linky link for those not familiar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Blue_(author)

There's a few stories in some of them that have a little tickle action too. 🙂

BTW, Marquis told me that he read a few days ago 50 Shades of Grey was put through a plagiary test by someone that wrote an article on it's similarities to Twilight. It was 89% the same when ran against Twilight. FAIL. I read the first 5 pages on Amazon and facepalmed my way through every paragraph.

EDIT: Found the article. Actually the same one from LA Times Blog quoted earlier. Here goes!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/05/the-origins-of-50-shades-of-grey-go-missing.html
"That point was countered by romance-focused site Dear Author, which compared the two works side by side. In one test, using the plagiarism-checker TurnItIn, the texts had 89% similarity."

I believe the author has already admitted that the work started out as a piece of Twilight fan-fiction that grew a life of its own.

So that explains the similarities.

Doesn't excuse them though...

 

[CuntTard]

It's not erotic, it's terribly written and blatantly stupid.

 

[c7_assassin]

Having our fetish embraced by the talentless and the horrible can only hurt us.

 

[CuntTard]

Uh 50 Shades Of Grey had nothing to do with tickling and most here are not into real BDSM.