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Somebody looking in the window?So what was the third viewpoint ?
Ill be keen to read that series, I had a very hard time with 50 Shades as the writing was atrocious and the protagonist was so WET (and not in the good way)
Somebody looking in the window?So what was the third viewpoint ?
You believe so !!??It's good enough to write lol
What Random mean Eva ?Gina your funny, your posts are so RANDOM.
Haha I still recommend it as a bit of light reading, but it just worries me that the target audience is obviously younger women, and romanticising abuse can't lead to anything good!
You said it perfectly.Oh my gosh, don't get me started on 50 shades... haha.
This book has come under a lot of critique from day one, for good reason. Not only because of the subject, which to the majority of the target audience, is a bit 'naughty' and forbidden; but because of the repercussions that is had for the bdsm scene. What people fail to remember is that is was written as twilight fan-fiction, and as a trashy romance novel it's actually not too bad as far as the genre goes.
However, when people look at the relationship between the protagonist and the infamous Mr. Grey, and label the abuse that takes place constantly throughout the series as 'bdsm' or D/s, it becomes worrying.
The community who practise bdsm as a lifestyle have worked hard to maintain a 'code of conduct' as it were, a mantra summed up as SSC (safe, sane, consensual). This is what helps to differentiate 'play' from 'abuse', which the author has failed to recognise in her basic google search of kink. The type of activities depicted in the series, (while hot as hell) are in fact quite dangerous if the person involved is inexperienced, both physically and psychologically. The protagonist is throughout the series, consistently pressured into doing things she isn't comfortable with, emotionally manipulated and is provided with no aftercare or support after several traumatising scenes.
For someone who has no previous knowledge to read this and go, 'hey, beating and degrading my partner sounds like fun!' is just asking for trouble. The amount of injuries I have seen (and personally attained) at the hand of people unwilling to research and learn things is remarkable, nerve damage from poorly tied restraints, internal bleeding from misplaced striking, to going into shock from unrecognised subdrop.
Moral of the story: Not everything you read is accurate. Do your research, communicate with your partner and while you should always be endeavouring to grow and experience new things, be cautious.
(apologies for the essay, bit of a sore point haha)
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What Random mean Eva ?
I get the excitement some people have for this book But I only wish to ask one question
Is it a well written book or has the hype won everyone over ?
Dan Brown falls into that category of writer to me Massive selling books written to a formula that seems to work Bur are not well written
May be its the modern malaise Why spend days reading and having to use your imagination When you can go to the cinema and have it it all laid out for you, as it were, and its all over and done in 90 minutesI saw on the news last night there was a whole stack of them (looked like new copies) at the Lifeline book fair here and an old biddy was lamenting they had not sold any yet. My lecherous mind did momentarily wonder if this octagenarian had read it and what she made of all the fuss.
I get the excitement some people have for this book But I only wish to ask one question
Is it a well written book or has the hype won everyone over ?
Dan Brown falls into that category of writer to me Massive selling books written to a formula that seems to work Bur are not well written
I was only a teen when I read my first Wilbur Smith So my memory my be fading it was sooo long agoHarold Robbins: Robert Ruark Wilbur Smith same type of Authors , Ruary a tad up market ? perhaps not ?
May be its the modern malaise Why spend days reading and having to use your imagination When you can go to the cinema and have it it all laid out for you, as it were, and its all over and done in 90 minutes
And yes funflyer the authors would be rather happy with the $$$
But I bet after their financially set They will be hoping to write the perfect novel Win the the Nobel prize for Literature
There was a cheep series of paperbacks with a BDSM theme around in the 60/70s by
John Slater
- The Horror Camp (1962)
- Camp Hell (1962)
- Camp Blood (1963)
- Women's Camp (1963)
- Camp of Terror (1963)
- Sin Camp (1963)
- Joy Camp (1964) (originally as Ray Slattery)
- Gestapo Camp (1964)
- Torture Road (1964)
- Women of Auschwitz (1964)
- Gestapo (1964)
- Two for Auschwitz (1964)
- White Slaves of the Swastika (1964)
- Women of Warsaw (1964)
- Women Under the Samurai (1964)
- Operation Rabaul (1964)
- Undercover Agent (1964)
- Terror of the Swastika (1965)
- The Captive Women (1965)
- Woman's Compound (1965)
- Women in Terror (1965)
- Women of the Resistance (1965)
- The Shame of Auschwitz (1965)
- Butcher of Auschwitz (1965)
- Gestapo Captive (1965)
- Manila Nightmare (1965)
- Death March (1966)
- Horror Camp Escape (1966)
- Swastika Castle (1966)
- Hitler's Experiment (1966)
- Gestapo Prisoner (1966)
- The Wrath of Jimmu (1966)
- Victim of the SS (1966)
- The Slash of Death (1966)
- The Nazi Fiends (1967)
- War Lord's Women (1967)
- Experiment at Ravensbruck (1967)
- Buchenwald Hell (1967)
- Prisoner of Dachau (1967)
- Valley of Slaves (1967)
- The Bamboo Cage (1967)
- Jungle Captive (1967)
- Bride of the Headhunter (1967)
- The Commandant (1968)
- The Savage Warriors (1968)
- The Nazi Lover (1968)
- Brides of Terror (1968)
- Woman of Blood Island (1968)
- Love Slave of Paris (1969)
- Gestapo Fugitive (1969)
- Prisoner of Torture Alley (1969)
- The Soldier's Prize (1969)
- The Iron Collar (1969)
- Slave Ship (1970)
- The Prisoners of Doctor Raven (1970)
- The Black's Woman (1970)
- The White Savages (1970)
- Captive's Choice (1970)
- Slave of the Apaches (1970)
- White Squaw (1970)
- Torture Chamber (1970)
- Sadists Carry Knives (1970)
- Mad Monk of the Mountain (1971)
- Satan's Captive (1971)
- Beast Woman of Buchenwald (1971)
- Slave Girl (1971)
- The Love Captive (1971)
- Love Slave (1971)
- Woman Tamer (1971)
- Samurai Slave (1971)
- Savage Justice (1971)
- Birds of Prey (1972)
- Black Slave (1972)
- Woman in a Web (1972)
- The Hunted Women (1972)
- Bikie Slave (1972)
- Spoils of War (1972)
- Beach House Captive (1972)
- Island Hell (1972)
- Slave Terror (1972)
- Death Island (1973)
- The Victor's Prize (1973)
- The Love Cage (1973)
- The Sadist's Slave (1973)
Lots of cheep little reads
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