M
Mankey
Right, now. I'm making this topic out of sheer anger and annoyance. I just want to see a discussion and debate about this whole situation.
The other day on my way home from the sandwich meet I was sat on a train. To my left was a poster. This poster said something similar to the following: "Spice up tomorrows commute, 'The Siren' and 'Switch' fifty times dirtier than fifty shades of grey! Buy now from WHSmith!" This annoyed me somewhat. I then arrive in London and decided I was thirsty and proceeded to get a drink. I go into WHSmith and at the entrance are copies and offers on other erotic novels telling me that all my "bedtime" reading is sorted.
This whole erotic novel craze is driving me nuts. Any other novel, fine. But I do not think it is appropriate in any way, shape or form to have erotic literature forced at me with any purchase in any bookstore or supermarket.
My girlfriend has a younger sister who is already asking her mum is she can read it, and she's 15. Now, yes, she may be old enough to understand that it's not real and that not all relationships are like that, its more to do with the principle.
Having seen excerpts is it REALLY suitable to be reading these things day to day and talking about it between each other? If a guy sat down on a train with a lads mag he'd no doubt get some dirty looks from women and make people uncomfortable. If someone sat down on a train reading an erotic scene from the novel depicting all sorts of S&M, how is that more suitable? Granted one is visual and anyone can see it, the other is all in your head. But what's worse? Seeing tits, or having some perverse creepy person getting a kick out of reading that stuff in public?
I don't know. It's just grating me that this sort of stuff is considered "literature" now, and people who previously NEVER read are reading this badly written perverse story based on an awful teen vampire fiction story. There are so many grammatical errors that I've seen in it, and I've not even read them.
Thoughts?
The other day on my way home from the sandwich meet I was sat on a train. To my left was a poster. This poster said something similar to the following: "Spice up tomorrows commute, 'The Siren' and 'Switch' fifty times dirtier than fifty shades of grey! Buy now from WHSmith!" This annoyed me somewhat. I then arrive in London and decided I was thirsty and proceeded to get a drink. I go into WHSmith and at the entrance are copies and offers on other erotic novels telling me that all my "bedtime" reading is sorted.
This whole erotic novel craze is driving me nuts. Any other novel, fine. But I do not think it is appropriate in any way, shape or form to have erotic literature forced at me with any purchase in any bookstore or supermarket.
My girlfriend has a younger sister who is already asking her mum is she can read it, and she's 15. Now, yes, she may be old enough to understand that it's not real and that not all relationships are like that, its more to do with the principle.
Having seen excerpts is it REALLY suitable to be reading these things day to day and talking about it between each other? If a guy sat down on a train with a lads mag he'd no doubt get some dirty looks from women and make people uncomfortable. If someone sat down on a train reading an erotic scene from the novel depicting all sorts of S&M, how is that more suitable? Granted one is visual and anyone can see it, the other is all in your head. But what's worse? Seeing tits, or having some perverse creepy person getting a kick out of reading that stuff in public?
I don't know. It's just grating me that this sort of stuff is considered "literature" now, and people who previously NEVER read are reading this badly written perverse story based on an awful teen vampire fiction story. There are so many grammatical errors that I've seen in it, and I've not even read them.
Thoughts?
