Posted: Aug 14, 2012 10:00 am
Macdoc wrote:If you haven't read it Cali - then you are not in a position to make that kind of pejorative statement.
I have read it.
I have a literary degree
It's an interesting foray into soft porn with a smidgeon of bondage.
It's bodice ripper taken a bit further is all. It verges on a send up -
It might mean a breakthrough in certain aspects of erotica for mainstream women...hence the popularity.
This is likely a good summary
Jenny Colgan of The Guardian wrote "It is jolly, eminently readable and as sweet and safe as BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism) erotica can be without contravening the trade descriptions act"
Is it literature....not in the least.
Is it pulp fiction - yup and selling like crazy. Let it roll - about time America loosened the corsets.
It is shite! It is not a breakthrough for women, it reverts to form in that regard where the man can abuse her and the little woman will forgive the man, because she luuuuuurvs him. He is not sexy, he is fucked up and anyone who leaves this book thinking that BDSM only occurs because some fucked up guy hates all women because of his crack-whore mother, has been grossly misinformed. I could go on......
This book does women no favours at all.
