Fifty Shades of Grey

okay just read that article. My first reaction was why are they bothering to sex up Austen when someone has already written an entire novel entitled 'The Lost Sex scnes of Jane Austen' which basically covers the entire Austen canon and even has illustrations.

My second reaction is why do they say 'The old-fashioned pleasantries and timidity have all been stripped away, quite literally. You didn’t really think that these much-loved characters only held hands and pecked cheeks, did you?' and claim that 'We'll show you the scenes that you always wanted to see but were never allowed'

Their talking as though they believe their target readers have no imagination of their own. Pretty much anyone whose read those books has already imagined their own perfect idea of how 'the scenes they always wanted to see but were never shown' played out so they have in a sense already seen those scenes. Not to mention there is already a ton of fanfic portraying those scenes.

These books wont be giving anyone anything that they cant already find online or imagine for themselves for free. Department of redundancy imho though it is amusing how their hyping it like its something new.

If I wanted to read Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy going at it like bunnies, I'd read a fanfic. And it would probably be better written and wouldn't cost me money.

I had to share this

http://www.joeydevilla.com/2012/07/15/now-thats-what-i-call-shelf-placement/

Well, that's subtle.

No it isn't. Gloriously so, 8-)

I don't get it.

Ah such wonderful innocent.

I'm afraid I know what makes that placement logical.

Or maybe my mind is just that dirty.

Vibrators need batteries, no?

edited 21st Jul '12 5:51:05 PM by SnowyFoxes

They do, yes.

Argh, Don't Explain the Joke :P

My dad found a big pile of these books at Costco. After I said, "Holy shit, why do they just put porn out there like that?" he picked one up, found a random page, and read for like five seconds.

He slowly put it down, walked away, and calmly asked, "What the frick is wrong with authors these days?"

So I explained it was a Twilight fanfic and he's barely stopped laughing since.

edited 21st Jul '12 8:08:25 PM by SnowyFoxes

I found the original fic and tried to read it. Couldn't figure out what was dialogue and what wasn't.

Will try again later.

That's not a good sign.

Yeah, the author apparently hadn't heard of quotation marks.

Ooh can you provide a link to it? I want to read through it and figure out who some of the characters were expies of. (Taylor in particular. He's the only character that seems somewhat original but that can't be right.)

edited 21st Jul '12 10:37:57 PM by Hermiethefrog

There's a link on the book's page.

Excellent.

Although from what I've been hearing, "literature" seems like a bit of a stretch.

Taylor is an original character. His name wasn't changed from the fanfiction to the original novel.

Huh. I'm somewhat surprised.

@Snowy: Your dad's not read many romance novels, has he?

The closest thing he's read to a romance novel is Pride And Prejudice.

Oh, and I just told him about the sexified classics.

As a Sherlock Holmes purist, he is quite horrified.

You know, now that I think of it, I can't recall him reading anything written published before 1950 without calling it trash.

edited 22nd Jul '12 6:29:28 PM by SnowyFoxes

So did anyone catch the Nostalgia Critic this week? He ends the review with a group of other internet personalities reading passages from this....piece of fiction (I shall not call it a novel/book) aloud and in silly voices. It was highly amusing.

Wait they are sexing up Sherlock Holmes as well.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

edited 22nd Jul '12 6:58:49 PM by syvaris

Why? People have been doing it in their heads for years. They're just trying to cash in on it. No big.

^^See the link posted earlier in this thread. Holmes/Watson are quite possibly the most slashed characters in the history of fanfiction. Pride and Prejudice is fairly predictable due to Mr Darcy. Why they chose to do this...thing...to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is inexplicable, though.

They are having Sherlock Holmes and Watson have a torrid, illegal gay affair.

I like it so much better when adaptions have Holmes be asexual, or at least so repressed that the idea of him getting into a romantic/sexual relationship is laughable. I like some slash, but Holmes/Watson is a pairing I just particularly dislike. The fact that they're trying to write this into the canon is...INFURIATING.

I wasn't originally gonna fault the lack of quotation marks since the hyphens make it look like she's using that James Joyce method, but those vertical lines are weird as hell...

Here's a podcast review. Kinda long, but entertaining.