Fifty Shades of Ungodly Filth, more like!

8th August 2012

Who’d have thought that a series of smutty books written by a woman could have become so successful?

If I’d known I would have published my diaries. (My 2008 edition is particularly uncouth.)

Whenever anything becomes ludicrously popular it tends to polarise opinion, which is silly because something is what it is, whether it becomes mainstream or not.

I'm usually inclined to mock band wagon jumpers and misplaced moral outrage via the medium of satire, irony and sarcasm. I think it's irrational to be easily offended.

Read the book. Don’t read the book. Hey, do what you like! You have to admit that the enormous fuss over these books is pretty impressive, even if the prose isn’t.

The author, London born Erika Leonard, isn’t under any illusion that she’s going to be hailed as the new Tolstoy. She says of her trilogy: “The explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise. This is my midlife crisis, writ large...fantasies...that’s it.”

Good for her, I say.

In other news on today’s show: Linda in Knaresborough is a bit of a perv. I’m so susceptible to Olympic sponsorship that I’ve been gorging on Big Macs and Nick’s been doing a spot of cross-dressing.

Click on the play button below for the accompanying audio. Cheers chickens!

Posted by Jennie at 11:04am