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Originally Posted by Mrs GTAHVIT

Just checking out what the Ladies thread was all about, looks like a good place to hang

Hey, welcome to the best thread on C5!

Originally Posted by Mrs.TAG

Welcome to a fellow Mod Wife! Is all this Fest stuff turning your house upside down, too?! Do you get to come this year or are you staying home with the kiddos?

Ladies, if you need to keep the moderators in line...just ask the "Mod Wives"

Lol!

About time you girls came a-visitin' us! Glad you're here, nice to see the Voices of Reason come to call!

Originally Posted by BowtieBelle

OK so, I'm just gonna come out and say it. This book everyone keeps raving about? I sat down and read it for an hour in the bookstore today. 50 Shades of Grey, right?

OK, this should be called "50 shades of the most awful writing ever." I'm serious. Maybe some of y'all like it. But I'm so sick of hearing about it-- and I was really hoping I'd like it.

Besides the fact that if the guy touches the girl, she has an orgasm-- I mean, he can apparently touch her shoulder and that happens-- there is so much bad writing in that book, I couldn't make myself keep reading it. This guy they describe? He sounds like a cheerleading squad got together, dreamed up their version of the perfect guy and then took turns writing descriptors of him for a book. Totally unbelievable. The main character says "Jeez" and "oh crap" at least 50 times apiece. At least. She and the guy gasp at each other so many times it made ME gasp. Half of the descriptors are the phrase "so freaking hot" (I'm serious; I read that phrase at least a dozen times just in an hour) and "chews her lip." she chewed her lip so much there should be a hole in it and I swear I counted at least three dozen "blush" or "flush"es in a hundred pages.

The sex is vanilla; it's horribly repetitive; and it REALLY bothered me that someone who's supposed to be writing bestsellers made an American college student who "picked a smart rucksack to go on holiday" and used words like "pram" to describe a baby carriage and talked about "ringing" someone instead of calling them. So obvious the writer is British.

So basically it boiled down to "Christian Grey is so freaking hot. He touches Ana. She has gasps. She flushes. He flushes. He gasps. She has a mind-blowing orgasm. He touches her again. They gasp in unison. She bites her lip. He is so freaking gorgeous. She has an orgasm. He gasps. She chews her lip." Over. And over. And over.

Seriously?!!

ok ok I have not heard the word on this shades of vanilla crap but thanks to you I will not download it onto the kindle for any reason!

Originally Posted by Ladybugsmom

I haven't read the 50 shades trilogy, have no interest in it....
BUT - if you're looking for a great read, try "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. I heard about it from Lightning - and it is FABULOUS!!! I read the whole thing on a flight from Florida to Seattle. I laughed out loud, and cried my eyes out - the lady next to me thought I was crazy... It's about an aspiring racecar driver, told from his dog's point of view.

I read "The Art of Racing in the Rain" - it IS a great read. Enzo is a deep thinking pup, eh?