I find this rather alarming
Aug. 14th, 2012 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sidI was just catching up on the July issue of the high IQ society Mensa's Bulletin, which has a book review column. The author of the column, Tom Elliott, reviewed Fifty Shades of Grey. I will quote:
(note: first he reviewed Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift)
Possibly because the above brought to mind Rice's erotic Sleeping Beauty series, I couldn't help but notice the hotly discussed book Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James that's being touted on talk radio and in major newspapers. Yes, both have a definite BDSM slant (more specifically, master/slave), but both are so well written as to have mass appeal. Part of a trilogy, a first work by a TV executive, wife, and mother from West London, 50 Shades tells of Anastasia Steele, a literature student assigned to interview Christian Grey for a campus magazine, and naturally the chemistry instantly sets off an affair that rivals that of The Secretary, Last Tango in Paris, and a host of similarly steamy tales. Regardless of your lifestyle, you'll be captivated, and I predict many of you will echo one reviewer's description of the book as "deeply disturbing, compelling, and completely addicting."
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It's a matter of record that Mensa as a group holds no opinions, and that the Bulletin only contains the opinions of the individual writers. *g*
(note: first he reviewed Anne Rice's The Wolf Gift)
Possibly because the above brought to mind Rice's erotic Sleeping Beauty series, I couldn't help but notice the hotly discussed book Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James that's being touted on talk radio and in major newspapers. Yes, both have a definite BDSM slant (more specifically, master/slave), but both are so well written as to have mass appeal. Part of a trilogy, a first work by a TV executive, wife, and mother from West London, 50 Shades tells of Anastasia Steele, a literature student assigned to interview Christian Grey for a campus magazine, and naturally the chemistry instantly sets off an affair that rivals that of The Secretary, Last Tango in Paris, and a host of similarly steamy tales. Regardless of your lifestyle, you'll be captivated, and I predict many of you will echo one reviewer's description of the book as "deeply disturbing, compelling, and completely addicting."
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It's a matter of record that Mensa as a group holds no opinions, and that the Bulletin only contains the opinions of the individual writers. *g*