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Jul. 30th, 2012 10:54 pmThree different people over the weekend offered to loan me their copy of 50 Shades of Grey when they found out I haven't read it. Ugh. I'm trying to stick by the whole Don't Be A Dick policy, and I don't want to hate on the book that everyone seems to be loving, but really. UGH!!!! I admit to not reading it, and having no desire to read it, and I've been remarkably restrained in not punching anyone over the face for trying to talk me into reading it. I don't like Twilight. I read the first two books because they were here and I was bored. I go to the movies because they're Katherine's thing, and it's a tradeoff. She went to the HP midnight movies and the Hunger Games with me; I go see Twilight with her and try not to laugh at inappropriate times. But I think that the whole Bela-Edward relationship is unhealthy and while I'm all for getting kids to read, that's not the kind of thing I'd be wanting them to read. And given that 50 Shades was originally Twilight fanfic, and apparently poorly written fic at that, I'm not going near it. I did tell ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sxysadie21 that I hoped that the relationship in it wasn't as unhealthy as the actual Twilight relationship, but apparently I was wrong, because I came across this article yesterday and it just confirmed my fears that the book is crap, lol. The thing that really gets me is that apparently “Lovers don’t need safewords” and that just makes me want to throw things. Seriously. Idk, I have a whole rant/reaction in mind from the article alone, but I'm gonna ignore it and keep on biting my tongue when people talk about how awesome this book is, the same way I look the other way when people start raving about Cassie Clare's books.
In less-frustrating news, have I told yall about our raccoon? There's a raccoon living in the shed in our backyard, and one day last week one of the boys forgot to put the lid back on the wild feed tote (we have a big plastic tote on the back porch that has bird seed and squirrel feed and corn cobs in it) and the raccoon got in it, got in the squirrel food, at picked out all the peanuts and sunflowers seeds. Left the corn. Silly little guy. :)
sxysadie21 that I hoped that the relationship in it wasn't as unhealthy as the actual Twilight relationship, but apparently I was wrong, because I came across this article yesterday and it just confirmed my fears that the book is crap, lol. The thing that really gets me is that apparently “Lovers don’t need safewords” and that just makes me want to throw things. Seriously. Idk, I have a whole rant/reaction in mind from the article alone, but I'm gonna ignore it and keep on biting my tongue when people talk about how awesome this book is, the same way I look the other way when people start raving about Cassie Clare's books. In less-frustrating news, have I told yall about our raccoon? There's a raccoon living in the shed in our backyard, and one day last week one of the boys forgot to put the lid back on the wild feed tote (we have a big plastic tote on the back porch that has bird seed and squirrel feed and corn cobs in it) and the raccoon got in it, got in the squirrel food, at picked out all the peanuts and sunflowers seeds. Left the corn. Silly little guy. :)
