tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post6048838578337540126..comments2023-11-02T06:50:42.777-07:00Comments on billierosie: FIFTY SHADES OF CRAPbillierosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-79106114408805531922012-06-11T21:07:44.087-07:002012-06-11T21:07:44.087-07:0050 Shades of Sellout (not to be missed) at http://...50 Shades of Sellout (not to be missed) at http://lantoniou.blogspot.com/2012/04/50-shades-of-sellout.htmlI.G. Frederickhttp://www.eroticawriter.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-34064245880827707572012-06-11T16:25:07.337-07:002012-06-11T16:25:07.337-07:00Holy carp! (Yes, carp, not crap. Holy carp is what...Holy carp! (Yes, carp, not crap. Holy carp is what's need for making gefilte fish. Holy crap is what's kept in reliquaries.)<br /><br />Oops.<br />I digressed.<br />Why am I here?<br /><br />Thanks.<br />For the link.<br />I'm only just reading this and suddenly there I am!<br /><br />And a reference to the eating scene in Tom Jones! I saw it 4 times within the space of a year or two when it first came out. Sexiest thing I'd every seen. That meal... now that's sexy. <br /><br />As for E.L. James (itself a nom de crap), her writing is excruciating. Juvenile, trying perhaps to be American college student, and perhaps they are that bad but if so it doesn't work well when trying to create an effective novel. I'm not even asking good! Just effective. Though I guess it is effective, given the way it's selling.<br /><br />As I said in a comment on Laura Antoniou's latest Facebook post on the matter, I've been reading it like an editor, mentally improving every sentence as it goes by my eyes. And really - don't you think it would be so much more interesting if the hero were NOT gorgeous? Think of him as ordinary, dorky, very fat maybe, but his dominant magnetism is so great that she can't resist anyway.oatmeal girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12842608615972752000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-6509131555843433422012-06-11T15:17:58.853-07:002012-06-11T15:17:58.853-07:00For me, the hallmark for bdsm erotica is the Marke...For me, the hallmark for bdsm erotica is the Marketplace series by the aforementioned Laura Antoniou. Nothing else even comes close. Your mileage may vary, but they are not to be missed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-9797667561342069302012-06-03T10:11:48.001-07:002012-06-03T10:11:48.001-07:00Thanks for this, billierosie! Laura Antoniou's...Thanks for this, billierosie! Laura Antoniou's parody is hilarious (sorry I don't have a link handy, but it's in her blog on Livejournal). I saw EL James being interviewed on American TV show "The View," and she seems a nice enough person -- apparently hasn't let fame go to her head. This doesn't mean she has invented anything or has any talent for writing erotica. And if she herself admits that her novel started out as fanfic, the media has no right to claim she is a pioneer in any sense!Jean Robertahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08805088081675965859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-18835426184123009152012-06-01T14:15:48.742-07:002012-06-01T14:15:48.742-07:00Thanks Patrick! I really enjoyed putting this one ...Thanks Patrick! I really enjoyed putting this one together! Now I have finished it, I can get on with reading Les Liaisons Dangereuses -- my sweet friend Jan sent it to me and I have been hankering to get started!billierosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00288997506566830393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8670812027273632828.post-89807477923542187962012-06-01T13:59:51.897-07:002012-06-01T13:59:51.897-07:00I am still working my way through volume one. Whil...I am still working my way through volume one. While it is always nice to see literature making big news in any way, it is a little disappointing that clever prose fails to make the cut in most cases. Clever, without pompousness, takes a ton of talent to achieve! Thanks for all the juicy links as well!Patrick Whitehursthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00882350091197098228noreply@blogger.com