When a book sells in the huge numbers that EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey is maintaining this summer, the world must surely be full of people who have enjoyed it and then told their friends.
Fans were certainly quick to defend Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code as it broke publishing
records back in 2003, and Harry Potter addicts, both young and old,
have been proud to wave a wand on behalf of JK Rowling's bestsellers
since 1997. But what makes the triumph of James's book surprising is
that a story involving such a succession of overtly kinky sex scenes can
conquer the mainstream publishing market. After all, the plot is so
singlemindedly titillating that it makes the unconventional "modern"
relationships that leaven Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy read like
Charlotte Brontë in comparison.
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