50 Tweets of Grey

Live-tweeting the runaway bestseller, "50 Shades of Grey." Is it any good? Read on...

  1. Twilight fanfic forums. RT @leahlibrarian: Patrons at my library are freaking out over that book. (50 Shades). Where did it come from??
  2. I'm going to write FIFTY SHADES OF GREY fanfic, change the names, and create a bestseller.
  3. MT @moirarogersbree: Do NOT make the hero [of your FIFTY SHADES fanfic] a vampire. You will open a publishing wormhole.
  4. "His voice is warm and husky like dark melted chocolate fudge caramel." - from 50 Shades of Grey (can anyone explain this sentence?)
  5. @andrewtshaffer From this sentence, we can construe that the writer was passionate. And hungry. And maybe PMSing.
  6. Why 50 Shades of Grey is popular: 1) Food metaphors (chocolate, caramel). 2) Lots of descriptions of characters' hair ("tousled").
  7. "I shake my head to gather my thoughts." Um...I don't think heads are magic eight balls. #50shadesofgrey
  8. Signs point to no. :) RT @andrewtshaffer Um...I don't think heads are magic eight balls.
  9. See tweet re: excessive food metaphors. RT @DanFriedman81: Why do these things keep taking off? Don't people know that there are good books?
  10. The writer of 50 Shades of Grey knows a good thing when she reads one, and wisely writes no better than Stephenie Meyer.
  11. 50 Shades of Grey drinking game: Every time the hero Christian Grey's gray eyes are mentioned, take a shot of lighter fluid.
  12. The real appeal of 50 Shades: Young, uninteresting heroine is told she is "mysterious and captivating" by handsome, creepy older dude.
  13. "He smells of expensive body wash." You can smell how much someone spends on soap? #50shadesofgrey
  14. @andrewtshaffer She means the $6.99 kind rather than the $3.99 kind.
  15. I will add that her knowing it was body wash, and not an actual bar of say Ivory or Irish Spring is true talent @andrewtshaffer
  16. Instead of a car almost hitting Bella, a bicycle almost hits the heroine of #50shadesofgrey, causing Edward to save her. I mean, "Grey."
  17. "I grin like the Cheshire cat." Your whole body disappears?! Holy shit! #50shadesofgrey
  18. Hero woos heroine by giving her a $14k first edition of a Thomas Hardy book. Before their first date. #50shadesofgrey #alittleexcessive
  19. Hero has been described as "long-fingered" three times. There'd better be a payoff coming. #50shadesofgrey #coming
  20. Which part? RT @andrewtshaffer "I use his toothbrush. It's like having him inside my mouth." #50shadesofgrey #creeper
  21. Hero keeps telling heroine "You must eat." Like he's fattening her up to cook her later. #50shadesofgrey

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Andrew Shaffer

Author of "Literary Rogues," "Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love," and, under the name Fanny Merkin, "Fifty Shames of Earl Grey."

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