Who do we blame for this?

[Hazy992]

Only thing I actually know about 50 Shades though is Gilbert Gottfried read it


If this doesn't get your juices flowing I don't know what will

 

[Total LOLige]

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

 

[Hazy992]

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

You think that's because you can read an erotic novel without anyone actually knowing?

 

[Total LOLige]

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

You think that's because you can read an erotic novel without anyone actually knowing?

It must be but even if you were reading an erotic novel in hard copy form who would know that it was an erotic novel. The only way people could tell is if it had a really obvious name like Naked Bitches From Venus. Apparently erotic novels are popular with housewives, another advantage of using the Kindle for them is that they can avoid an awkward moment in Waterstone's when they have to ask if they have Naked Bitches From Venus in stock.

 

[Hazy992]

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

You think that's because you can read an erotic novel without anyone actually knowing?

It must be but even if you were reading an erotic novel in hard copy form who would know that it was an erotic novel. The only way people could tell is if it had a really obvious name like Naked Bitches From Venus. Apparently erotic novels are popular with housewives, another advantage of using the Kindle for them is that they can avoid an awkward moment in Waterstone's when they have to ask if they have Naked Bitches From Venus in stock.

Erotic novels do usually have really obvious names and covers though. You can spot them a mile off.

 

[Total LOLige]

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

You think that's because you can read an erotic novel without anyone actually knowing?

It must be but even if you were reading an erotic novel in hard copy form who would know that it was an erotic novel. The only way people could tell is if it had a really obvious name like Naked Bitches From Venus. Apparently erotic novels are popular with housewives, another advantage of using the Kindle for them is that they can avoid an awkward moment in Waterstone's when they have to ask if they have Naked Bitches From Venus in stock.

Erotic novels do usually have really obvious names and covers though. You can spot them a mile off.

I've never seen erotic novel so I wouldn't know. The title 50 Shades of Grey doesn't sound like an erotic novel, maybe it does and I'm missing something.

 

[Lectori Salutem]

50 what? hype? what did I miss here?

*googles*

Do we really have to find a scapegoat for an erotic twilight fanfic becoming popular?
Just humanity being humanity, I guess.

I blame you, however for me now knowing what '50 shades of grey' is. I think my life was slightly better without that knowledge

 

[chadachada123]

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

You think that's because you can read an erotic novel without anyone actually knowing?

It must be but even if you were reading an erotic novel in hard copy form who would know that it was an erotic novel. The only way people could tell is if it had a really obvious name like Naked Bitches From Venus. Apparently erotic novels are popular with housewives, another advantage of using the Kindle for them is that they can avoid an awkward moment in Waterstone's when they have to ask if they have Naked Bitches From Venus in stock.

Erotic novels do usually have really obvious names and covers though. You can spot them a mile off.

I've never seen erotic novel so I wouldn't know. 50 Shades of Grey doesn't sound like an erotic novel, maybe it does and I'm missing something.

My grandma has about 30 variations of this kind of cover. Always the same thing, but with a different setting.

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/Fabio%20cover.jpg

Edit: HTML is being dumb. I'll just post the link.

 

[Terratina.]

A friend of mine has read 50 Shades of Grey and has said that the writing isn't very well. For what started off as a Twilight fanfic, I wasn't surprised. I point the finger at the fans, they made those titles successful, no offence. Just vote with your wallet folks. Also, it just that sex sells, unfortunately, even badly written sex.

I've never seen erotic novel so I wouldn't know. 50 Shades of Grey doesn't sound like an erotic novel, maybe it does and I'm missing something.

It has some BDSM. Yeah...

Captcha: never quit

Never quit voting with your wallet

 

[Total LOLige]

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

You think that's because you can read an erotic novel without anyone actually knowing?

It must be but even if you were reading an erotic novel in hard copy form who would know that it was an erotic novel. The only way people could tell is if it had a really obvious name like Naked Bitches From Venus. Apparently erotic novels are popular with housewives, another advantage of using the Kindle for them is that they can avoid an awkward moment in Waterstone's when they have to ask if they have Naked Bitches From Venus in stock.

Erotic novels do usually have really obvious names and covers though. You can spot them a mile off.

I've never seen erotic novel so I wouldn't know. 50 Shades of Grey doesn't sound like an erotic novel, maybe it does and I'm missing something.

My grandma has about 30 variations of this kind of cover. Always the same thing, but with a different setting.

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/Fabio%20cover.jpg

Edit: HTML is being dumb. I'll just post the link.

Oh right. That's a hilarious cover, I always thought the covers would be a little more subtle.

 

[Andrewtheeviscerator]

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Thank you for showing me that, just thank you. There is no possible way I can have a bad day today now that I've seen that.

Also how are they going to turn that into a movie that isn't either incredibly creepy or a porno? Seriously has Hollywood truly run out of new ideas now?

 

[Signa]

Just vote with your wallet folks.

Never quit voting with your wallet

I think Twilight single-handedly proved that doesn't actually work.

OT: If I needed to blame some one, it would be marketing for the movies. Someone said that those books needed to be movies, and a hefty amount of blame lies with them, but movies can go unnoticed. I was unaware of these books until the first movie was on its way out. It was the movie's marketing that brought the stories into full mainstream view, so I'm going to blame them.

I mean, no matter what the sales figures on the books were before the movies, it had nothing of the following it has now. So many people are too stupid or just plain busy to bother reading novels these days. So even in some super-chick book club, it might be hard to get some one to read a book, even after a glowing recommendation. A movie can spread like wildfire though.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

No one... These books are aimed at teenagers. They're allowed read shit. Giving out about teen fiction is like giving out about the lack of depth in The Hungriest Caterpillar.

I was reading Tolstoy and co. when I was 15.
Just because you're young doesn't mean you should read shit.

 

[Dags90]

Erotic novels do usually have really obvious names and covers though. You can spot them a mile off.

It's also one of the only genres where female authors won't initial their first name to hide their gender, because female authorship is something of a selling point. For women, by women.

 

[Guffe]

People tend to like bad things
Well of course there are loads of stuff that get published that very few people notice but some just have that stroke of luck / marketing experience that they can pull of big sales. And when a book brings in good cash they make a movie out of it etc.
Of course the author is to blame for creating it but also the public whom read/watch it are to blame for keeping it in life.

 

[Hazy992]

I've never seen erotic novel so I wouldn't know. The title 50 Shades of Grey doesn't sound like an erotic novel, maybe it does and I'm missing something.

Most erotic novels seem to be like this;

I've seen even less subtle books than that too. You spot them a mile away in bookshops.

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Thank you for showing me that, just thank you. There is no possible way I can have a bad day today now that I've seen that.

I want the audiobook

Also how are they going to turn that into a movie that isn't either incredibly creepy or a porno? Seriously has Hollywood truly run out of new ideas now?

Maybe they could do it like The Aristocrats?

 

[Hazy992]

Erotic novels do usually have really obvious names and covers though. You can spot them a mile off.

It's also one of the only genres where female authors won't initial their first name to hide their gender because female authorship is something of a selling point. For women, by women.

Yeah that's true, although all I can think of now is when Mr. Garrison tried to write one

 

[The Funslinger]

Also, I'd like to know how many people ranting and raving about it have actually read 50 Shades of Grey or the Twilight Saga.

I've read the first 3 Twilight books. My brain started rejecting itself before I could get to the final one.

Not going near 50 Shades with a ten foot barge pole though, so I'm not going to rant about it. It's not my thing, so I avoid it wherever possible. I really don't get what the big deal is about films that target women or teenage girls or whatever becoming movies is. It's not like they're forcing people to watch them.

I hate the fact that the fucking Bourne films exist, but I don't rant about it. I just stay the fuck away from them.

Since I'm a damn author, I reserve the right to ***** and moan whenever something that butchers the literary art enters the public eye.

I've no problem with crap like it existing. In Twilight's case, I suppose there needs to be something to inspire the portion of teenage girls who are utterly useless at life, the universe and everything that they can still be a "success". It's when these things become universally considered noteworthy that I have a problem.

Twilight is going to go down in history, and thus have an impact on writing as a whole. This infuriates me. My assumption is that Stephanie Meyer was attending a writer's course, then had to leave after the first minute, and left hearing one word: "Adjectives". She clearly then took that one grain of education to heart and made it the foundation of her empire without any context, or moderation whatsoever. Basically how the worst of the worst fan fictions are written.

 

[MrMan999]

Honestly. What pisses me off is how some of these Twilight fans outright insult me for going to the Science Fiction, Graphic Novels or Manga Isle in Barnes and Noble. Call me a lowlife nerd and all that good stuff. And then go right ahead in screaming at the top of their lungs about how Twilight/50 Shades of Grey/Hunger Games is the best book ever.

 

[ElPatron]

50 what? Never heard of it.

You can't actually blame anyone for it unless the writer is following a formula to just earn money. Teenagers want something like that and they will buy it for some reason.

I am thinking about bands like Tokio Hotel and Evanescense and whatever. It's hyped up, people want to feel unique by becoming like everyone else who likes that stuff, etc etc etc and now you have a huge number of emo/scene/goth girls and boys on the street compared to a decade ago.

Dark and edgy sells. Let's google the name of the novel and check the Wiki page.

*upon returning*

Holy shit, dark and edgy sells, period. The description didn't sell me the book even thought it includes things I like. It just feels dumb and shoehorned. Pass.

The Amazon Kindle is to be blamed. I read somewhere that sales for erotic novels have increased significantly since the release of the Kindle.

You think that's because you can read an erotic novel without anyone actually knowing?

People don't print fake book covers to read those in public? Wait, does this mean I am smarter than people who read erotic novels?