Shades of Weak
In a totally unshocking turn of events, Shades of Grey has become a vacation theme. There is only one problem. The helicopter rides and champagne are not why the ladies love Christian Grey and imagine themselves Anastasia Steele. (Porn stars come up with more believable names.)
Nota bene: I gave the wife a copy for Mother’s Day. I figured it was the perfect gift for a really pregnant woman on a day celebrating motherhood. Her opinion of the book is less glowing than others. She, being spoiled, was genuinely confused when another woman told her to read it with a vibrator handy. “But, I have Ulysses. . .” “No, you’ll want the battery powered friend.” “Whatever, chick.” Her sister had to explain it to her, “Your husband actually satisfies you.”
And therein lies the rub (hehehehe). If you’re not throwing down the gauntlet, then an overpriced hotel, champagne, and a trip around the block in an Audi is only going to make things worse. Why build up an edifice of pomp and circumstance that’s going to end with you sheepishly asking, “Can I make love to you now?”
Skip all the extraneous baubles, throw your woman down, and take control. She doesn’t want to be Anastasia for the helicopter, she wants to be Anastasia for the surrender.
Funny. My wife has said the same thing. All of her spinster GF’s love the book and cannot stop talking about it. However, my wife gets ‘it” multiple times a week, in different ways and thinks the book is a bit boring. She regularly gets her hair pulled, a** slapped, pinned down and banged doggy style and does not need a book to tell her about it.
The ones my wife talked to are married. I feel like I should warn the husbands, but they probably wouldn’t take kindly to some random dude calling and giving them advice.
Ulysses, was your wife able to finish the book? I looked at it on Amazon, and thought it was boring. Definitely not well-written. From the Amazon preview, it looked like it was porn written for third-graders.
She read it while we were on vacation and did finish it. From the sections I perused, it is poorly written, but if you’re just laying on the beach then it’s a workable distraction.
::facepalm::
From the excerpts I’ve seen, the book looks unreadable.
I was unable to read any of it, but I’m not the target audience. The women I know who devoured it have husbands who don’t seem like they’d be domineering in the bedroom. Penelope, on the other hand, will read just about anything that’s lying around the house.
I’m really not into ‘light reading’ and for some reason just don’t read fiction anymore. I’ve been reading “Dishonest Money: Financing the Road to Ruin” by Joseph Plummer and Teresa of Avila’s autobiography of late (the former is an easier read than it might sound).
Lounging by a pool reading fluff doesn’t appeal to me, similar to sitting around watching TV. I start to get irritable drowning in the shallow end. I’m really trying not to sound like an old grump, lol. It doesn’t seem to be working very well…
I’m fairly confident that your kids are older than ours. I used to deride brain candy, now I embrace anything that is more mature than Curious George, even if only on a substance, and not talent, level.
That’s a point. I did enjoy the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, lol. After a point I just refused to read any more Curious George level books to my kids.
I dont get the Dom-Sub talk at all. I don’t disagree; I’m just not the gentle sort, I guess. Whenever it’s discussed, I end up thinking: “That’s being domineering? I thought that was just regular ol’ fun.”