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With Fifty Shades of Grey flying off the bookshelves, and (allegedly) sales of bondage sex toys at a record high I was wondering if RE membership had benefited? Maybe a posting to Mumsnet? 🙂
It would be tricky to quantify if we’ve picked up any new members through Fifty Shades of Grey… I hope so! And I hope they find RE a bit more satisfying!
I have to say I couldn’t get into the book, I got a few chapters in before the writing style forced me to stop.
In other news, studies show that the stereotyped dom from the book (“must have been abused as a child”) is pretty much nonsense. There’s a great piece on it here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/shortcuts/2012/jul/08/fifty-shades-grey-bad-bondageCheers, Hywel
And an awesome dissection of the book:
http://bizzybiz.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/50-screams-of-hate.html
(and subsequent blog posts). Fave line from the review: “I don’t know a bad enough word to describe how much I despise this book”.
Cheers, Hywel.
I can’t bring myself to read this book as I am allergic to bandwagons so it will bring me out in a rash… but I enjoyed the blog review you posted. Thanks!
My favourite line was: “She needs her dad to do it for her. Dads are men. They know how to hammer. I want to hammer her into a pancake.”
Totes fun x
Wowcher are billing The Story of O as ‘the next 50 shades’…. hmmm
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