50 Shades of Grey, changing the world one person at a time
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too many titles, here's some authors. probably nothing surprising here.
Salinger
Carver
Kerouac
Hemingway
Updike
Chekhov
David Foster Wallace
Dickens
Fitzgerald
Bukowski
Hesse
Steinbeck
Mostly American, mostly 20th century. I don't claim to be particularly well-rounded as far as what I've read, but I've read just about every word these guys ever put to paper, and I think my life is richer for it.
^ I have quite decent collection myself, here's my favorite:
Josef Mengele ghostwrites all of Dwight's WF posts, I think.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA]Gilbert Gottfried Reads Fifty Shades of Grey - YouTube[/ame]
^^ this
I read STS daily. When I started I was just dumb. But after 2 years of reading I'm retarded at the level I'm not able to buy potatoes at my local shop without assistance of other adult.
After regularly reading wickedfire for a couple years, I now ask all the cashiers in line whether the store is representing any big brands at this point. They always tell me to inspect all the elements and find out.
I love the idea of books but can't force myself to sit down and read one.
Ebooks , peer reviewed studies in PDF format? Heck yeah.
Ebooks , peer reviewed studies in PDF format? Heck yeah.
I am going to go to bat for this book.
I brought it up to a couple of my buddies the other day and they all claim that their GFs, post reading it, have been much more inclined to be more adventurous in bed.
While I don't see myself reading it in the near future, I don't see why we should be complaining that these women are reading it...or that it exists.
My.02
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I brought it up to a couple of my buddies the other day and they all claim that their GFs, post reading it, have been much more inclined to be more adventurous in bed.
While I don't see myself reading it in the near future, I don't see why we should be complaining that these women are reading it...or that it exists.
My.02
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My friend told me I will be delighted once my gf read it.
She did last week. By the time she finished I was raped several times, in several positions. Don't really know what book contains but highly recommended to your girlfriends.
As one of the few females on the board, I'll admit that I've started to read it. So far it hasn't done much to make me overly intrigued. It has a plot that is easy to follow, there is plenty of sex. In general it's termed "mommy porn" with my friends. As one friend said, "I've read better smut with more plot and realism. This is nothing special."
Nothing special as far as I'm concerned either, but I'm glad to see so many people who would otherwise not read anything reading something with more than a few pages at least.
Harry Potter gets credit for bringing reading back to the masses, but I'm sad and not especially surprised to see how few college graduates read after school. Perhaps it's all the "classics" that are force fed in school. <--- I can say that because I'm a senior English teacher in my other life.
Like many others, I own a roomful of books. I installed built-ins across the wall just to accommodate my collections. And that's just the books I have at home. I own entire class sets up at school. Some of y'all have actually helped me buy them over the years.
Maybe I need a class set of 50 Shades to get things more exciting...but how does that fit into British Lit? I need British mom porn apparently.
Nothing special as far as I'm concerned either, but I'm glad to see so many people who would otherwise not read anything reading something with more than a few pages at least.
Harry Potter gets credit for bringing reading back to the masses, but I'm sad and not especially surprised to see how few college graduates read after school. Perhaps it's all the "classics" that are force fed in school. <--- I can say that because I'm a senior English teacher in my other life.
Like many others, I own a roomful of books. I installed built-ins across the wall just to accommodate my collections. And that's just the books I have at home. I own entire class sets up at school. Some of y'all have actually helped me buy them over the years.
Maybe I need a class set of 50 Shades to get things more exciting...but how does that fit into British Lit? I need British mom porn apparently.
From what I've heard it should give hope to aspiring writers that even if they can't write at all they can still get published.
I've got hundreds of documentation books. I've bought 5 so far this year.
For school some of my books have a free online version, but my fucking eyes burn if I have to read an entire technical book on a monitor.
Also microsoft releases their certification documentation books the same way as their OS, they release it half done, then patch it with an addendum of 100+ pages of corrections and missing info you have to read separate from the book. And when they release the updated/corrected book, you don't get any discount for having the shitty broken book that cost over $100. Then on the certification test you get broken english questions with multiple, multiple choice answers, I'd never seen a multiple choice question that was A-M and choose 3 of the options A-M.
So I prefer physical books unless they're from MS...
For school some of my books have a free online version, but my fucking eyes burn if I have to read an entire technical book on a monitor.
Also microsoft releases their certification documentation books the same way as their OS, they release it half done, then patch it with an addendum of 100+ pages of corrections and missing info you have to read separate from the book. And when they release the updated/corrected book, you don't get any discount for having the shitty broken book that cost over $100. Then on the certification test you get broken english questions with multiple, multiple choice answers, I'd never seen a multiple choice question that was A-M and choose 3 of the options A-M.
So I prefer physical books unless they're from MS...