Why do people buy into this crap? Poor writing with love replaced by abuse, degradation and submission - its very antithesis. We live in strange and bewildering times.
We do indeed. It has sold 70 million copies. Written to a formula and so poorly written! Bought my copy for fifty cents at a garage sale.Could not get past the first 40 pages...it goes into the bin not for its laughable erotic content but for its woeful syntax and inferior literary merit.
I wanted to know what is so great about this book... So I downloaded a PDF (Didnt have heart to spend some money on such a book)
And I am still reading... Wondering how people and times have changed... This is a time where LOVE is just a word... And people have become so self-obsessed and self-centric...
In the west we live in a secular materialistic society. Without the benefits of spirituality and religious values this can only become worse.There is nothing great about this book. It is an inditement of what we have become. Poets are a few notches above the rest...elitist (maybe ) but true!
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Why do people buy into this crap? Poor writing with love replaced by abuse, degradation and submission - its very antithesis. We live in strange and bewildering times.
ReplyDeleteWe do indeed. It has sold 70 million copies. Written to a formula and so poorly written! Bought my copy for fifty cents at a garage sale.Could not get past the first 40 pages...it goes into the bin not for its laughable erotic content but for its woeful syntax
ReplyDeleteand inferior literary merit.
Wonder how it has become a 'best seller'. disappearing from the book-stores.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to know what is so great about this book... So I downloaded a PDF (Didnt have heart to spend some money on such a book)
ReplyDeleteAnd I am still reading...
Wondering how people and times have changed...
This is a time where LOVE is just a word...
And people have become so self-obsessed and self-centric...
Lovely haiku!
In the west we live in a secular materialistic society. Without the benefits of spirituality and religious values this can only become worse.There is nothing great about this book. It is an inditement of what we have become. Poets are a few notches above the rest...elitist (maybe ) but true!
DeleteRallentanda,I enjoyed reading.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree!
ReplyDeleteI live the 51st shade of grey - the den of antiquity.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure how iniquity and antiquity correlate. Please do not tell me:)
DeleteCherry pink lips, remember?
DeleteRemember? I think we have a bit of an antiquarian condition with delusional thoughts going on here schweetie:)
Deletewas it mister grey
ReplyDeletein den of iniquity
with a three-box set
I only got to pg 40 so I cannot answer the question...Mr Grey is a bit of psycho i think:)
Deleteyour opinion on the book is very well expressed in so few words.....nice haiku
ReplyDeleteThanks Sumana
ReplyDeleteI find dens of iniquity rather alluring...
ReplyDeleteThree Dens with Geese
You are so naughty MMT!
DeleteBroad spectrum!! .........but the power of darkness has a strong hold, no wonder it made money and more!!
ReplyDeleteA great take on the prompt. Your first line says it all. Like others I bought the first one and lost the will to live after the first 30 pages!
ReplyDeleteLOL
Deleteoh oh, that is brilliant.
ReplyDeletefifty shades of grey
all the colours I will need
render me scarlet
Oooo..Celestine..I am shocked!.
DeleteThe Bible says something about salt losing its savour. Someday, I'm afraid, Nelson Mandela is going to lose his. Nobody lives forever...
ReplyDeleteSalt Cedar Blossoms
some nice ones; have a good Thursday
ReplyDeletemuch love...
May he be blessed!! He has earned every grain of that salt and worthy of it!!
ReplyDeleteAmen to that!
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