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Post by Unbound on May 22, 2012 21:22:09 GMT -5
Anyone read this? It's supposed to be Twilight for Adults. Not my usual fare but it's making the rounds with various friends on Facebook.
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Post by HokieThea on May 22, 2012 21:26:00 GMT -5
I keep thinking about reading it, but haven't yet. Maybe we should read it together (or maybe that would be creepy, considering what it is about!!)
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Post by Bara on May 23, 2012 5:01:27 GMT -5
Sounds like my hair ...  I'll give it a look, thanks. Although, someone did recently describe the 'Twilight' novels as : "A young girl's choice between bestiality and necrophilia .." I'd have gone with the Wolf, quite frankly. |
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Post by adcooper on May 23, 2012 6:27:40 GMT -5
Ah... big controversy in libraries! It's the most popular erotica since....I don't know what. Some libraries are not adding it, or pulling it from their collections, citing community standards. But that's a tough argument to win, given that hundreds of people in those communities are on waiting lists for the thing.
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Post by niaru on May 23, 2012 13:12:15 GMT -5
I've read lots and lots of bad, bad online reviews about it: very poorly written "love affair" between a young woman and her stalker...so no, I won't be reading that.
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Post by Dawn on May 23, 2012 15:34:05 GMT -5
My mom who usually is pretty good at sticking to a book bought this for her kindle because of the fuss about it, made it through a few pages and literally deleted it from her library said it was that bad.
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Post by brooks on May 23, 2012 20:56:09 GMT -5
Thank you Dawn, I won't bother downloading it  I have gone from book poor to too many to read isn't always that way. |
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Post by Bara on May 24, 2012 3:30:41 GMT -5
Well, Unbound; despite my flippant earlier remarks about 'Twilight' - I'll get '50 Shades' and read it.
I'm strongly against un-informed condemnation. If it's horrid - it's horrid and I probably won't finish it.
Interesting, though, that the libraries are divided over it.
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Post by niaru on May 24, 2012 7:10:58 GMT -5
lol Bara, I usually like to judge a book myself, by reading it. But this one doesn't tempt me. For me it's the same as not going to see a movie because it doesn't sound interesting to me, whatever the hype around it might be. But let us know what you think!
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Post by Goalie on May 24, 2012 10:12:24 GMT -5
I read enough of it to know I didn't care for it. However I am not happy that our library considered not having it on the shelf. I do not go for book banning at all.
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Post by RacetrackRejects on May 24, 2012 11:13:52 GMT -5
As I understand it, this is how the books came to be. The author wrote them as Twilight fanfiction to add in the sex that YA books do not have. The soft porn versions became so well-liked that the author changed the names and had them published as their own books. Everyone I know that has read any part of them says that even if you can deal with the pornish nature, the writing is so awful that you could never make your way through them.
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Post by Bara on May 24, 2012 14:08:24 GMT -5
I give in. Read a few pages on Amazon and gave up BEFORE the porn and supernatural...
Never mind. She made some money out of it..
I think we should publish our 'Never-ending Stories'. Much more inventive and creative.
I think.. ;D Now, there are dragons scattered hither and yon. Brooks is the dragon-mistress ..
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I have gone from book poor to too many to read isn't always that way.
