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Hyouki -> RE: 50 Shades of Missing the Point (2/23/2015 4:48:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: kkaliforniaa
What confuses me about the hype is how did it even make the New York Times best seller list? Like how did all of this begin. Surely this is not the first, nor the last BDSM related book, so how did this book become so popular, especially when it was so poorly written [from what I've heard.. The word "goddess" was mentioned at least once on every page, I think]. I know editors and publishers aren't perfect, but did they really like the book enough to be like, "yeah, not a single person will find a thing wrong with these books". And what of doing some research on the subject material before publishing. Sure, these are not non-fiction, but if you're going to write a historical romance, it might be a good idea to know if they wore togas or gowns in 16th century Russia. Was the publishing company run by only ONE person? That must have been it, how else would a book have been approved so easily.
Also, this book was marketed as being a romance. I'm sorry, but where is the romance. I've read books ranging from Danielle Steel and Debbie Macomber to Tom Clancy and Robin Cook, and many authors in between. In good books, romance does not involve manipulation or anything of that kind. Sure, it may be innocent, but if there are doubts, it's because one of the characters has been hurt in the past and is afraid of the same thing happening again, and when those doubts are discussed, the other person is understanding and compassionate. Heck! There have been plenty of books where one of the main characters suffers from issues like PTSD, and even then, in a good romance novel, when the injured party misbehaves, he or she wants to run away, rather than risk hurting the person they love.. .. What a shame that books like *cringes* Fifty Shades has cast a shadow on not only one, but two genres [the other being erotica]
It made best seller list because of the amount of copies sold in a short frame of time.
It gained popularity, because it was originally written as a fan-fic to The twilight series by Stephenie Meyers. Originally titled Master of his universe.
It gained approval based off the number of views it had, and the fact a lot of the first published books were sold through word of mouth, before it got media coverage.
Although I agree it was poorly written in the sentence and spelling structure, the fact remains a lot of people actually like the books.
The word Goddess was mentioned a lot because Ana for some reason after first having sex with Christian developed somewhat of a split personality complex with
Her "inner Goddess" being her sexual self and finely tuned to everything grey wanted
Her "subconscious" that rarely raised its head above a book and often adopted an Edwardian scream face. &
Her "me" the girl who she was before she even met Christian Grey
The Romance comes more evident in the second book, the first being Christian trying to turn Ana into a sub so he could have both... The lifestyle he was used to that, kept his world in order and his past demons from haunting him AND the Woman he fell in love with.
The second book Shows him give up his lifestyle almost completely, the more extreme aspects he had indulged in, he gave up permanently. However due to Ana understanding him better than she thought, she herself brought the lighter parts of Ds back into her relationship with Christian. In order for her to help him get over his past demons. This is carried on into the third book.
So at its core, it is a romance. Its just unfortunate it has many misguided concepts in the books.
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