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Jumping John

(930 posts) Tue Jan 15, 2013, 06:33 PM Jan 2013

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Gilbert Gottfried reads 'Fifty Shades of Grey"

The way it should be read:

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Gilbert Gottfried reads 'Fifty Shades of Grey" (Original Post) Jumping John Jan 2013 OP

That book makes me sad as a person joeglow3 Jan 2013 #1

You are of course, absolutely right. However, this 72 year-old woman literally laughed out loud. monmouth3 Jan 2013 #2

My teenage daughter Control-Z Jan 2013 #3

I started the book, and couldn't get more than a few pages into it. djean111 Jan 2013 #4

Think of all the great opening lines in books joeglow3 Jan 2013 #5

joeglow3

(6,228 posts)

1. That book makes me sad as a person

Reply to Jumping John (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2013, 06:38 PM

Jan 2013

I am even sadder that so many people are not insulted by the terrible writing and normalization of domestic abuse.

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)

2. You are of course, absolutely right. However, this 72 year-old woman literally laughed out loud.

Reply to joeglow3 (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 15, 2013, 06:53 PM

Jan 2013

It is so grotesque in so many ways my only reaction was to laugh...sigh..

Control-Z

(15,682 posts)

3. My teenage daughter

Reply to joeglow3 (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 15, 2013, 07:24 PM

Jan 2013

said the exact same thing.

djean111

(14,255 posts)

4. I started the book, and couldn't get more than a few pages into it.

Reply to Jumping John (Original post)

Tue Jan 15, 2013, 07:34 PM

Jan 2013

It is the Harlequin Books version of S&M, plus the writing is atrocious.
Leafing through, to see if it was uniformly as bad as I thought, I read stuff like "my mind laughed at me" or something like that.

joeglow3

(6,228 posts)

5. Think of all the great opening lines in books

Reply to djean111 (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:44 PM

Jan 2013

"I scowl with frustration at myself in the mirror. Damn my hair - it just won't behave" is nowhere near that list.

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