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E.L. James: Fifty Shades of Grey

I don't know if sweaty cocks are marketable. :|

All those feathers, on those cocks, and you whack them, and spills over the net, backhand, forehand. They get real sweaty too. I could go on.
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And the metapublishing continues:

Fifty Shades of Grey gets the spoof it deserves | Books | guardian.co.uk

Anyone aroused to apoplexy by the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon will be truly enflamed by the ebook that trails just behind EL James's top-selling trilogy in the iTunes charts.

It's called The Diamond Club, and it's "a crowd-sourced erotic stunt novel" – which sounds pretty much like the literary equivalent of an orgy.

Though it purports to be by a writer called Patricia Harkins-Bradle, it is in fact the work of magician Brian Brushwood and Justin Young, who run a weekly comedy podcast, NSFW, and assembled it with help from their fans.

In the fortnight that its heroine Brianna Young has been wreaking revenge on her multi-milllionaire philanderer ex-lover Roman Dyle, her steamy antics have garnered 120 star-ratings on iTunes, with an average of four and a half stars. Three days after publication on 29 July it peaked at No 4 in the iTunes chart, behind only the Fifty Shades trilogy, and it is still up at No 12.
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You don't often get to see the birth of new English words, but I must admit that the adjective "beekeeper-sex-loaded" is new to me.
 
Was listening to Brian Brushwood and Justin Young talk about The Diamond Club - they didn't read the whole thing before assembling the pieces and publishing it. Quite a feat. I'm thinking we should do one here. Crowdsource the whole thing and sell it. :)

I just picked up Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey, and it was only later that I realized that it's only 2 numerals short of the current worldwide phenom. This book was one of his few outside of his Thursday Next series. Like EL James's work, this too is a trilogy.

Fforde's effort was first published in 2009, so it's hard to accuse Fforde of plagiarism, although I'd think he'd feel hard done by having missed blockbuster status by such a tiny margin. :)

Having read a little of Shades of Grey, I have to say that a single Fforde book is literally worth 50 Shades of Grey [cue reaction to bad pun].
 
I just finished the series and enjoyed it. Once I got past the first few chapters of Fifty Shades of Grey I started skiping the sex scenes all together, they're all the same for the most part. I think they need to be there though just to explain how fkd up he is. It's a great read once you filter out the sex a little! I started reading the series late last Thursday and finished Fifty Shades Freed this evening..
 
Yes, that was pretty much my reaction, too. After one ignores the sex scenes -- or not, as one wishes -- there really is a story to read also.
 
Why would someone read an "erotic novel" and not read the sex scenes? Just to claim that they have read it? That's like ordering a hamburger but then only eating the toppings.
 
sparkchaser said:
Why would someone read an "erotic novel" and not read the sex scenes? Just to claim that they have read it?
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Not necessarily. There might be as many reasons as people.
In this case many readers have said the scenes were boring and repetitive.
Some people who have read the book have been hung up by spelling and vocabulary and lack of editing, for example, and seem to have seen little else.
Go figure. :confused:
 
If the sex scenes are boring and repetitive and there's problems with the spelling and vocabulary and lack of editing, then I can't really see what's so special about these books.
 
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