50 shades of popularity. Secret of success
Erica Leonard James' novel "50 Shades of Gray" blew the minds of readers around the world. It became the best-selling electronic resource on the Amazon Kindle. What's the best-selling one … In terms of the number of electronic copies sold, the novel has overtaken the legendary "Harry Potter".
“In fact, the story is interesting, only a fool would not want to experience such a thing!"
“I started reading only because
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Sweet love story, enough
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have not met. I enjoyed it.
I read it quickly."
50 shades of reality
Erica Leonard James' novel "50 Shades of Gray" blew the minds of readers around the world. Released in 2011, it became the best-selling Amazon Kindle. What's the best-selling one … By the number of electronic copies sold, "50 Shades of Gray" overtook the legendary "Harry Potter". "50 Shades" is a trilogy that does not leave indifferent any of those who risk ripping off the veil of shyness and looking into the vicious darkness of someone else's bedroom. There is no place for indifference. This book either evokes ardent affection, agreement, desire and exclamations (even silent ones): "Yes, yes, I want MORE", or makes you turn away with disgustingly twisted lips: "Porn! One sex, no plot … Who would read that?"
They talk about him, discuss him, praise him, resent him, roll their eyes languidly, blushing timidly and hiding their eyes, swearing or simply brushing aside: "Not my genre." A million copies sold (and this is only in electronic form!), Fan clubs around the world, the turmoil around a possible film adaptation ("ah, who will play Christian Gray, ah!"). "50 Shades" burst into our lives in 2011, and into the lives of Russians in 2012 - and still remains the most discussed trilogy of our time.
"After this romance, every woman will feel desirable." A series of divorces, misunderstandings, mutual dissatisfaction in relationships. "Damn book", which burst into the consciousness of women "over thirty", opening their eyes to what could be …. The book, nicknamed "Mom's Porn" for its defined target audience (the second after women in the 30 largest audience - young female students).
"50 Shades of Gray" is the most sensational work of recent years. Interestingly, work on it began as a fanfiction based on the famous saga "Twilight", and ended with writing an independent work. And it almost immediately began a solemn march through the minds, marriages and bedrooms of its readers.
Is the author a genius? Is the plot brilliant? Flat porn with no plot or discovery? Waste of time or a masterpiece of modern literature? What is the secret of the popularity of E. L. James's extremely popular porn (erotic?) Novel?
50 shades of words
The novel "50 Shades of Gray" and the subsequent 50 shades of the second and third volumes are living evidence of an old axiom: sometimes it is not what is written that matters, but how it is written. There are thousands, maybe millions, of flat tabloid novels, and each has explicit scenes. There are BDSM novels, but none of them gained worldwide popularity. Why? And this is already a question for the personality of the author, his literary language and manner of presentation.
The novel is written in the first person, it creates the illusion of confidential communication. We see an insecure girl who falls in love with a billionaire "with oddities" without memory, and then we observe how the couple quarrels, reconciles, makes love, and so on.
The author describes their relationship on the verge of a foul and beyond frankness. We know everything. Every moment, every sensation experienced by the heroine. But no “caves of passion”, “jade rods” and other visual ones (meaning the verbal phrases used by the authors with the visual vector, the terminology of Yuri Burlan's system-vector psychology) substitutes for physical terminology. James writes directly, not dissembling, not hiding. She accurately and accurately describes every minute, every action, conveying emotions in words. Showing what is happening through the eyes of the main character and involuntarily endowing her with some of her own properties (for example, unusual for the anal-skin-visual Anastacia hobbies for music and literature, so close to a sound writer).
The mastery of the author does not lie in practice or an ingenious outlook on life. The book "50 Shades of Gray" is written with a unique oral-sound-visual word. A book about love and sex, presented in such a way that even the most vicious details, the most explicit scenes are amazing! - but do not cause disgust as it happens when reading flat visual porn and erotic novels. The oral word breaks through any cultural restrictions and barriers. It hits the unconscious directly, conveying the meaning without distortion and conjecture. If the author says sex, he says sex. If his characters "fuck", then he conveys it in such a way that we understand - yes, they are. No visual romance (sometimes), no false beauty.
Very controversial and clearly not attracting the title of "ideal" relationship between Christian Gray and Anastacia Steele. The lack of a rich plot, a huge number of bed scenes. And at the same time, the author keeps all three volumes in suspense - you don't want to come off, although at some point you may get tired of the abundance of eroticism. Why? Word magic? The magic of the word! Sight truths (love!), Sound wordplay and oral directness, oral breakthrough. In depth! There, where the "little inner goddess" sits, where the innermost desires doze.
Sex. Humor. Experiences. By the way, the author manages to convey sexual tension much better than "visual suffering" for a bygone (temporarily) love. But at the same time, James visually accurately, tactilely describes everything: internal sensations, touches, events. We can close our eyes and we will see a clear visual picture, like a frame from a movie. And the sensations are such that the hair stands on end, and the body is covered with goose bumps. The magic of the word.
50 shades of female psychology
Is it all about word games? The plot of the books of the trilogy revolves around the relationship of an inexperienced girl with a Dominant - a man who dominates and controls in bed (and in everything). Dominance in sex and relationships. BDSM scenes.
The woman wants to belong to the man. And in the book this desire is sharply and precisely written out: to belong, in spite of everything. To be behind a man, to recognize his power over himself, to give yourself to him, to trust him completely. Almost every woman, deep in her soul, has this desire. Except for one. System-vector psychology clearly speaks of a woman who does not belong to anyone - a skin-visual female who fights for the "rights of women", remains public, independent and desirable. Read on Wikipedia: "The writer Melissa Phoebos, noted that" perhaps the popularity of this book indicates a crisis of feminism. " This is not true.
While any other woman who is a WOMAN, and not an anti-woman, like all these skin-visual models-actresses-cotton-eyed, leaves the right to lead the man. Not just the right to lead - she wants to belong. The grotesque in the book, peppered with oral turns, hits this innermost point - I want to be it. And it makes each scene live with the heroine, going crazy with an inner desire to be in her place. And at the same time - from fear.
50 shades of a hero of our time
Christian Grey. It is his image in the center of the book. 50 shades of gray, dissolved in an ambiguous look. 50 shades of darkness hidden in mystery. The character is not systemic. The author, in his person, writes out the ideal of a man as she imagines him. These are 50 shades of desire, peppered with fifty shades of depravity interspersed with fifty shades of romance. Perfectly built, successful, rich, with a “difficult childhood”, able to love …
Christian Gray is a dream come true. Each of its features is grotesque, turned outward, on the verge of reality, written out with loving details. In a sound "mysterious". More than once, not twice, Anastacia admits that she simply cannot say what he is thinking. Skinny successful in business and caring for his body. Visually sensual, always interested in Anastasia's feelings and inner experiences, constantly ready to talk about them.. Anal caring. The combination of the incongruous, which is ultimately revealed in marriage, when love "changes" a person, when two find a "compromise."
E. L. James wrote out her dream - and hit the spot. The image of Christian Gray corresponds to the image of the cherished "princes" in dreams, which modern women are waiting for, trying to imagine who they would like to belong to. But is it possible to get along with such a guy of your dreams?
And at the same time, a modern woman who wants to belong wants to belong to such a Christian Gray, invariably well-groomed, taking care of herself, absolutely self-sufficient and fully realized. Many would not refuse the habits of the dominant either, although, perhaps, not in such a format and not as intense as it is presented in the book.
50 shades of impressions
The book does not carry deep ideas or common truths. The book carries passion. Written inner desires, crazy eroticism, an abundance of erotic scenes and a subtle word play in descriptions, images, accurate presentation. "50 Shades" is a book that turns lives, opening the eyes to their own desires for those who have them. Women with a visual vector fall in love with the image of Christian Gray, gather, discuss it, wait for a film adaptation, demand from their men some elements prescribed in the book.
We can talk about the impact “50 shades” has on society later, when the trend turns into a wave, and the cases will not be isolated, but massive. The popularity of the book is growing, or rather, it is not decreasing. They are discussing her, waiting for what will happen next, looking for a description of the same story on behalf of Christian (getting inside a character you love is a nice thing). The woman wants to belong, but the modern woman wants the visual man. This has never happened before. And James felt it very accurately. Already now you can see how accurately and accurately the book turned women's thinking, opening a glance at something that seemed inaccessible and unreal, and now - you just have to stretch out your hand.
