By boblaj - 22/05/2012 16:11 - United Kingdom - Hastings

Today, I took the day off work to be with my wife, since she's always bemoaning my lack of romantic gestures. As thanks, she spent most of the day reading Fifty Shades of Grey, which is basically a blatant plagiarism of Twilight, starring a pair of two-dimensional BDSM freaks. FML
I agree, your life sucks 22 872
You deserved it 4 032

Same thing different taste

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Dammit redbluegreen! You edited your comment and now I look like an idiot.

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Just wait... If she's reading Fifty Shades it won't take her long before she's ready to drag you to the bedroom. It's a common occurance after a every few chapters of that book.

Why can't people just grow the **** up and let people like what they like? Not only as in regards to books but everything in life as a whole. So what if someone likes Twilight and so what if someone likes this series? At the end of the day how does their enjoyment of said thing directly impact your quality of life? Grow up people.

Pretty sure this impacted the OP's quality of life, just saying.

Why can't people grow up and let people dislike what they dislike?

FalconWhitaker 20

Dude, I am so sorry. Also, your wife has terrible taste in books. I mean, REALLY terrible taste in books.

I'm confused. Copying us flattering but twilight isn't worth that.

spock9 0

I read that Fifty Shades of Grey was originally written as a Twilight Fanfiction. The author obviously changed a few names and published it. Just thought I should say this.

I've heard of that book everywhere... All the time on the radio and stuff.

124, I'd thumb up your comment, but because I'm on my iPod, it's too long,

First of all, I'm a huge Twilight fan who refuses to read 50 Shades because fanfiction doesn't deserve to be published. Second of all, you're an idiot if you think Stephenie Meyer has even read a Sookie Stackhouse book before - reading materiel that explicit is against her religion! And it is nothing like Twilight.

Is/ought fallacy. You assume she "ought" not be reading naughty books, therefore she hasn't read them.

All I read was "I'm a huge Twilight fan..." and my mouse instantly moved towards the thumbs down button.

Well that's a mature way to look at it! Liking a certain book automatically deserves a thumbs down? Idiot.

178, Its not a matter of "ought", it's her religious beliefs - it's not a secret ages a devout Mormon.

bizarre_ftw 21

Have you ever read it? Because I hear a very different story from a friend of mine who is the polar opposite of a twilight idiot and rather loves the book

MiloBear 11

#124 I think you picked a bad example since that writer has terrible grammar and didn't argue her point well. I enjoy fantasy stories. I've read and enjoyed the whole series of both Twilight and Southern Vampire (the Sookie Stackhouse series). It all depends on if I'm looking for mushy teenage stuff or more adult themes. I believe you could argue that most vampire stories are "rip-offs" of traditional vampire lore. But then, most modern stories contain elements from previously written books. I'm not a huge fan of the vampire genre but from what I have experienced, MOST vampire stories involve a male vampire falling in love/fixating on a human girl. Often, the vampire is much older than the human since vampires are generally immortal. This makes a lot of them controlling over their human since they believe they are wiser. Most vampire stories involve werewolves because it is known that they are enemies. Vampires are colder than humans, werewolves are warmer; probably to emphasize their opposition to each other. There are stories where vampires can withstand sunlight, although it does weaken them. There are two main ways for humans to turn vampire in literature. 1) The vampire bites the human and and their venom changes them. 2) The vampire drains the human's blood and makes the human drink their vampire blood. Twilight uses method one and Southern Vampire uses method two. In most vampire stories, the change takes place over a day or two. Most stories involve covens of vampires as well as those who are loners. Most shifters/mutants in stories change at the time of puberty since that is a time when our bodies change so much as it is. Honestly, I think Stephenie Meyer used much of the existing vampire lore, which Charlaine Harris also used. The one thing that Meyer made original, that of vampires sparkling in sunlight, has been heavily criticized and mocked. Maybe you should think for yourself instead of jumping on the popular Hating-Twilight bandwagon.