Who in ARLCo is reading the high-selling Fifty Shades of Grey?
Don't know about hard copy and e-book sales in ARLCo, but the book is available in print and in audio from the ARLCo library, and is in demand: A catalog search a minute ago revealed that they are 407 holds on the first returned of 61 books, and 32 holds on the one audiobook copy; no information on the e-book version available thru Overdrive.
What are the “results” of reading the first of the three in the trilogy?
– Has the book contributed to an increased scope of thought, knowledge and discussion about sex?
– Has Grey's sexual child abuse and its effects on him stimulated sharing and discussion of previously undisclosed sexual abuse and/or sexual assault and its effects?
– Has the explicit concern about STDs in the contract served in any way as a model for discussion about STDs in prospective and/or on-going intimate relationships?
– Has the description of an array of sexual practices stimulated discussion about these practices and/or trying out new practices?
– Has the book contributed contributed to an increase in sex and in sexual pleasure?
– What's missing in the book about sex and sexual relations?
wtf is the reason for this post?
Swag said:
wtf is the reason for this post?
Based on recent threads started, JimPB is either some sort of market researcher looking for free (bad) data, or has just flat out lost his mind.
CW said:
Swag said:
wtf is the reason for this post?
Based on recent threads started, JimPB is either some sort of market researcher looking for free (bad) data, or has just flat out lost his mind.
Have you read Fifty Shades of Grey while driving a Honda Fit?
JimPB said:
Who in ARLCo is reading the high-selling Fifty Shades of Grey?
Don't know about hard copy and e-book sales in ARLCo, but the book is available in print and in audio from the ARLCo library, and is in demand: A catalog search a minute ago revealed that they are 407 holds on the first returned of 61 books, and 32 holds on the one audiobook copy; no information on the e-book version available thru Overdrive.
What are the “results” of reading the first of the three in the trilogy?
– Has the book contributed to an increased scope of thought, knowledge and discussion about sex?
– Has Grey's sexual child abuse and its effects on him stimulated sharing and discussion of previously undisclosed sexual abuse and/or sexual assault and its effects?
– Has the explicit concern about STDs in the contract served in any way as a model for discussion about STDs in prospective and/or on-going intimate relationships?
– Has the description of an array of sexual practices stimulated discussion about these practices and/or trying out new practices?
– Has the book contributed contributed to an increase in sex and in sexual pleasure?
– What's missing in the book about sex and sexual relations?
None of your damn business.
CW said:
Swag said:
wtf is the reason for this post?
Based on recent threads started, JimPB is either some sort of market researcher looking for free (bad) data, or has just flat out lost his mind.
Could also be a sexually repressed 40-something female.
Inquiring minds would like to know.
gah you are weird, JimPB (bot). weird day on the ARLnow forums. weird day.
What guy gives two !'s about 50 shades of grey? First questions about fashion and office attire and now this?
I can't wait for the next one. Let me start: “Cosmo or Appletini?”
Fifty Shades is a top seller book of fiction (more than 10 million copies sold so far, with a movie to come) about the sensitive topic of sex and the male-female relationship. So it seems both appropriate and desirable to discuss the book. (We're all adults, aren't we.) The WPost's Sally Quinn, thinks so; in her On Faith Column she sets forth the interesting proposition that religion is a major factor in the popularity of Fifty Shades: http://www.washingtonpost.com/….._blog.html.
It is twilight fan fiction written for housewives
Recently, a woman sitting next to me on the plane was reading it (I peeked), and she was getting all hot and bothered. Lots of shifting around in the seat, crossing and recrossing of legs, etc. Weird. So to help Jim, she clearly liked it. How's that?
