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Mar. 30th, 2012 07:07 pmOh come on...they sent two covers of Entertainment Weekly out this week. The new stand cover was "Katniss Forever",
while the Subscriber Cover was "Fifty Shades of Grey", which EW proceeds to pat themselves on the back for ...because they are promoting a "book"???? And while yes, I get, that women need spicy fantasy....(I actually got a better fic going on in my head at the moment. ) I just don't understand. Of all the books published this year, including the marvelous The Fault in Our Stars, why is this one or Twilight...which are basically pulp novels written for an audience with a third grade reading level. Fault in Our Stars - a YA novel and The Hunger Games also a YA novel, as well as The Night Circus another YA...have better vocabulary and sentence structure. This? This gets the front cover? And I'm sorry who is talking about it? I never heard of it until EW brought it up. Yes, shocking, but life exists outside of the marketing and entertainment industry.
[And oh god, I hope I haven't offended any Twilight or Shades fans. People I watch daytime soaps and have read more bad books than I can count, trust me, I'm not judging you. I'm judging the frigging media and Entertainment Weekly for over-promoting bargain basement pulp, which is and should remain little more than a secret guilty pleasure. It would be like putting General Hospital on the cover. Or Passions. I mean Come on. (although I think they actually did that too...once upon a time. Entertainment magazines aren't exactly known for the highbrow taste...)]
What's going on with LJ? Took me forever to figure out how to log in. Also couldn't post an icon. Very weird.
Better today. But woman at work who has ceiliac disease and is eating glutens constantly is confusing me.
while the Subscriber Cover was "Fifty Shades of Grey", which EW proceeds to pat themselves on the back for ...because they are promoting a "book"???? And while yes, I get, that women need spicy fantasy....(I actually got a better fic going on in my head at the moment. ) I just don't understand. Of all the books published this year, including the marvelous The Fault in Our Stars, why is this one or Twilight...which are basically pulp novels written for an audience with a third grade reading level. Fault in Our Stars - a YA novel and The Hunger Games also a YA novel, as well as The Night Circus another YA...have better vocabulary and sentence structure. This? This gets the front cover? And I'm sorry who is talking about it? I never heard of it until EW brought it up. Yes, shocking, but life exists outside of the marketing and entertainment industry.
[And oh god, I hope I haven't offended any Twilight or Shades fans. People I watch daytime soaps and have read more bad books than I can count, trust me, I'm not judging you. I'm judging the frigging media and Entertainment Weekly for over-promoting bargain basement pulp, which is and should remain little more than a secret guilty pleasure. It would be like putting General Hospital on the cover. Or Passions. I mean Come on. (although I think they actually did that too...once upon a time. Entertainment magazines aren't exactly known for the highbrow taste...)]
What's going on with LJ? Took me forever to figure out how to log in. Also couldn't post an icon. Very weird.
Better today. But woman at work who has ceiliac disease and is eating glutens constantly is confusing me.