Popp Reads "50 Shades of Grey" | Popp Culture

wow I think you have had enough to drink for a night

...I really don't understand how this book ever became so popular. For a work of erotic fiction or erotic romance, it's a joke. Fiction can be good reading even if it's not a great piece of literature. But this isn't even good on the lowest level of reading entertainment. First, all of the characters are a walking cliché. Anastasia - she's a literature major who is passionate over British romantic era authors. Then she graduates and gets a job in a publishing company (just like you'd expect in a soap, completely unrealistic). The guy Christian is even worse - 20-something billionaire business tycoon. Give me a break...somehow made billions, ....by what means...doesn't say...just rich, like most women fantasize about...and it gets worse...he's some kind of renaissance man: connoisseur of fine wine, classical music, and anything else artsy fartsy. Probably can just sit down and paint a masterpiece or effortlessly rip through a Chopin Polonaise. He has an 80 year old man's outlook in a 20 year old body [Gounod's Faust]. And the self-made billionaire gorgeous man is completely taken with miss nobody English literature major who we're supposed to believe is irresistible...all of a sudden we're supposed to notice now that he actually wants her. And of course she doesn't want all his gifts and isn't impressed with his money...the 'good girl' routine. Give me a f**king break...a typical Nora Roberts romance cliché. And the sex scenes are nothing special - just boring internet chat room S&M. Read about 2/3 of it, but only because the very beginning anticipation, where she and Christian first get together. But now that they became an item, it ceased to be anymore. No matter how hard you try, you just can't bring yourself to believe these characters were real...just the opposite - unoriginal, derived and, worst of all, just plain boring. So I just don't understand why people liked this book. Perhaps, it's just a sign of the times that dumbed down versions are the only material that can stimulate people anymore...I figured it was hyped up so much that it looked better to people who don't normally read this kind of fiction so the clichés are not as obvious. And I haven't even gotten into the writing style, not the worst ever seen. However, the words "flush" and "murmur" are used at least several times per page, so pretty much everything everyone says is murmured...and Anastasia is constantly flushed...;-)

This brings me back to the summer -03 in a makeshift windshelter during my military training in Sweden. Our Lt Persson came over to see if we hade settled for the night. He sat down by the campfire and told a "goodnightstory". Dirty jokes and sextips.

I raise my whiskey for you Popp.

50 Shades of Gravy

There's a family guy episode where Lois goes to the movies to see 50 shades.
First seat - the seat's wet
Second seat - seat is also wet
Third seat - seat is dry, but the back of the seat in front is sticky.