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Have started looking at Bared for You by Sylvia Day, since so many have said it is (far) superior to Shades of Grey. So far, 20 pages in, it is thick with predictability and opulent vocabulary. The back-cover blurb is outta this world! We shall see.

LOL! You bet! :D

Thank you kindly, but nah. My lips are sealed (for once). :D

Capricious or impulsive for April, eh? Oh, I'm tempted, oh am I ever. But I'll stand pat with my second for If on a Winter's Night . . . Re March: Have read the Dahl, going to slog past that first boring Poe para .

Yes, I thought they were an enjoyable series, too. Totally different from what the overwhelming majority of negative hype (as we have now agreed to call it) was saying.

Many thanks for your clarifying reply, Meadow. Sounds like you know what you are talking about, so I'll get off the topic of hype, except to conclude by saying that it sounds to me like just one more example of the perversion and bastardization of the of the English language by the advertising...

Meadow, I think we think about "hype" differently. To me "hype" is the organized effort by the book industry to push a book and sell it, usually with quite a bit of puffery and other exaggeration involved (all the usual lying advertising techniques). On the other hand, an overwhelming number of...

Love the colors, Meadow, but this just in, from an interview of Laura Lippman in NYT Book Review section, Feb. 16, 2014: Q: What does your personal book collection look like? Do you organize your books in any particular way? A:I'm a librarian's daughter. I know the Dewey Decimal System, and...

All beautiful, everybody, but I would be glad just to have all mine on shelves. Went out and bought two bookcases two weeks ago. Now have to find places to put them. :D It's getting tight in here.

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I wouldn't mind that at all. A reread for me, and a chance to understand it better.

Almost the way I am getting to feel. :D I don't think either of us is going to change the discussion much. :rolleyes:

Yes it does. It did mine, too. And thank you very much for your response. Once again we see where poetry ranks in the scheme of things. :(

... and plunk down their full-price money? A most unusual form of curiosity for people. At least factual, but publishing/media/advertising is automatically a large world once someone pushes the "go" button. I can only say "didn't see it at the time, and didn't affect me." I don't think...

That's sort of my disagreement. I didn't notice that the advertising machine got hold of it before it went ballistic -- any more than for any other novel. My second sort of objection is that I have never heard a book so disparaged as 50 Shades, especially by people who have never read it...

Well that's an interesting definition of hype, different than I would have thought. Thank you. I'll think about it. But I had the impression that the word-of-mouth buildup for 50 Shades began while it was still in fanfic stage online, before it was ever presented for publication.

I must be the only person in the world who doesn't know what hype is. Either that, or I haven't seen any of the hype for 50 Shades that people allege there was. Anyone care to describe the organized hype that they have personally seen or heard for 50 Shades? And that it was more than for any...

So, the beat goes on. I think the number of people who have heard about the book -- like almost everybody -- far exceeds the so-called hype. Why blame popularity on hype? The book was a phenomenon that took off, for reasons of its own. IMHO of course. :)

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I hear ya talkin. But I'm still perspiring. :(