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shadowkatOh 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...)]
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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.
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Date: 2012-03-31 02:28 am (UTC)BTW Felicia Day has a book club that meets once a month online to discuss romantic/smutty books.... called 'Vaginal Fantasy Hangout' (seriously! ) I watched the last one and I enjoyed the discussion, but I hadn't read the book (which was called Slave to Sensation).... But I'm trying to get the next book which is 'Iron Duke' by Meljean Brooks (I've requested it through my local library... I'll see if they can get a copy for me).
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Date: 2012-03-31 02:47 am (UTC)The historicals work better than the contemporary ones. Anne McCaffrey did a few sci-fi short story ones though.)
Should mention that Shades of Grey is explicit sex and BDSM. It's not PG. It's basically all sex. He ties her up with his tie and proceeds to
well...take her into places she's never gone before. While Twilight is well no sex until we get married and then somewhat violent leads to pregnancy.
I'm not sure they can do it with an R rating...and again, why do movie?
It reminds me of when they did one of Anais Nin's Henry and June - that ended up being NC-17 and a bit draggy. There's better stuff - such as Nine and a Half Weeks, Wild Orchid, Henry and June, The Pillow-Book, and Deep Throat. Or...people could just rent True Blood and Nip-Tuck. Or for that matter S6 Buffy - specifically Smashed, Wrecked, Gone, Dead Things, and As You Were. Focus - naked Spike. Actually skip the episodes, go find the dailies on the internet, bonus?
Marsters's boxer shorts with little hearts on them, which I couldn't decide if they were adorable or just hilarious.
Personally, I find visual porn really boring. I need the banter and story.