My latest cultural obsession...

Yes, I know, I'm boring everyone with my weird obsession with the 50 Shades of Grey popularity. Which I wouldn't have known about if it weren't for livejournal, so you only have yourselves to blame. (Over 200 people showed up for the book signing in Miami.) But there's a reason for this obsession. a) I'm a frustrated writer trying to get published, and like my father, I like to figure out what works - why people go nuts over one book and not another (my father literally read every best-selling mystery novel out there - binge reading runs in our family), and b) frustrated social psychology major. (hello).

Have figured a few things out, now that I'm a third of the way through the second book.
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