I believe every single woman at my workplace is either currently reading one of the books in the trilogy, or finished all three in rapid succession. I read a few pages from an online excerpt (nothing explicit), and the writing is really terrible.
Like a clumsy attempt at fiction one would find in a freshman composition class. But the books have become hugely popular with women, and the author is no doubt raking in millions. Anyone here read it yet? Or your maybe your wife or GF? What's the appeal?

My niece read them, she explained the popularity as "socially acceptable soft core porn you can read at work".

Maybe this will help

Pax wrote:My niece read them, she explained the popularity as "socially acceptable soft core porn you can read at work".

It seems that the only thing making that book so popular is its mediocrity. I know plenty of competent, published writers of kink erotica who have crappy day jobs.

Dammit, I was kinky before it was cool. Back when the fiction everybody obsessed over was this thing called "Story of O", you've probably never heard of it.

I remember O, though at the rate I am losing synapses, I may forget it any minute now. It wa made into a movie by, I think, that master of good taste, Bob Guccione.

"Interview with a Vampire"

Hot book. Flames included.

I can't remember who made the movie of O, but Guccione doesn't sound right to me. I've got one of the posters for it in the CSC archive (where I volunteer).

The French film adaptation credits "Just Jaeckin" as the director (according to wikipedia). I have no idea who that is.

i think guccione did Caligula.

JinxRemoving wrote:i think guccione did Caligula.

Yep. He did.

I stand corrected.


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I spend several hours a week with phd level porn geeks. Three times a year, I get to use something I have learned in a conversation.

I don't have an entire hard drive devoted to porn, but only because I recently put in a 2TB and I moved the collection onto that.

Hey, I met Harlan Ellison back in the late '70s, when he said he was actually supporting himself writing porn under a pseudonym. (We had both had a few drinks.) I remember him saying porn was the shit that really sold.

GuitarsandGuns wrote:Maybe this will help

Xela

Porn is what built the internet...

Gnigma wrote:Hey, I met Harlan Ellison back in the late '70s, when he said he was actually supporting himself writing porn under a pseudonym. (We had both had a few drinks.) I remember him saying porn was the shit that really sold.

I met him in the late 80s

OpherGopher wrote:Porn is what built the internet...

Also VHS and DVDs