Have you read ‘The Book?’”
That’s the question women from the Upper East Side of
Manhattan to the suburbs of Seattle are asking each other in increasing numbers
— albeit in discreet tones.
“It,” they hardly need add, is “Fifty Shades of Grey” — part
of a triple-X trilogy involving sex games and a bondage-loving billionaire.
Though the three tomes weigh in at a total of 1,200-plus pages, they seem to
whiz by for many, and the books may be poised to become the post-millennial
equivalent of “The Story of O,” the notorious piece of kinky erotica that has
titillated some and scandalized many others since it first came out in 1954.
Though “Fifty Shades” came out last year with little fanfare
from The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House, a small publisher “catering to
the needs of aspiring authors,” in its own words, it has already generated
almost 6,000 ratings on Goodreads.com, with an impressive 62 percent rating it
a 5 out of 5. The book was also nominated for Best Romance in the 2011
Goodreads Choice Awards.
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