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So the book club that my wife participates in, not an official RS group but comprised only of ward members, has decided this months book to be the controversial book that is popular with all the women these days. Even though not an official church group, meetings are announced in RS. I am quite disappointed in their choice. Others say read it before criticizing but I think I have heard enough about it to not want any part.

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Does the bishop know they are planning this? I'm not joking this is a pornographic book (according to my research of it). Perhaps they just think it's steamy kissing in it?

Honestly, if I heard that the RS is going to have that, I would notify the RS president and the bishop about this. They can read what they want, but it shouldn't be announced in RS.

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The Bishop I think needs to get involved in this. Especially if it's being announced in Relief Society.

I have not read the book and have absolutely no desire to read it. I have heard that it is nothing but eroticism and smut. Why a group of LDS women would choose this book as a book of the month for discussion is beyond me. I can't even imagine the kind of discussion that might go on about this.

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Even so...if the book club is being announced in Relief Society the books should be appropriate for sisters of the Relief Society to read. That's the bottom line.

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I really wonder if these women know what it is?

I had a ward member on FB announce she was going to read it and bunch of her friends decided to read it with her. I went on to explain it was an erotica book. They didn't know what it was. I had to explain erotica to them.

Seriously, I couldn't care less what people choose to read. But, to announce it at church is giving implicit approval. That's where I draw the line.

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I think that however or wherever the word got out, the bishop should know about a group of ward members getting together to partake of and discuss pornography.

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My understanding is that it is not merely "erotica". It is a book about bondage and physical torture in conjunction with sex. Very, very twisted.

Why people would find such things enticing is a mystery to me. Just hearing about it turns my stomach.

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If it is that Shades of Gray book, it may be that they don't know that it isn't just a romance, but an erotic book. It would behoove someone to make that known.

That's the one Beefche. They are well aware of what it is, but it's a best seller.

RipFoster, do you know for sure that your wife's book club is reading E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey? Because it appears that people are confusing another book with that one. There is a book with a similar name called, Between Shades of Gray that seems to be getting some notice too; but it is a different story entirely.

Book boost: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ helps sell ‘Between Shades of Gray’ - Books - Macleans.ca

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I agree with your sense of disappointment. I would disappointed (maybe more than disappointed, I don't know) in my wife and her book club if they chose this book as well.

J at hotholyhumorous.blogspot.com (if the moderators will allow the link and agree that the synopsis published there could be helpful in dissuading your wife rather than "whetting" her appetite) blogged about this book earlier this week, and included a fairly thorough synopsis (I haven't read the book, so I can't comment on its accuracy, but, even if it's close....). Her synopsis doesn't go into details, but it does show what kind of details your wife can expect. Maybe if she reads it, she will see how pornographic the book is and decide to steer clear.

If she still decides to read it, I suppose you'll have to take a page from all the "how I learned to cope and heal from my husband's porn use" discussions. Try not to take it personally -- this isn't a reflection on you as a husband. This is a choice she is making and she will have to answer for it.

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  • 4 weeks later...

It's like the world just discovered erotica. Like it has never been around before and this E.L. James woman has come out with something so revolutionary! Makes me sick...

My sister in law, who is not LDS found herself in a similar situation with her bookclub and helped mandate that the ladies who did not wish to read 50 Shades could read Jane Eyre instead.

So, now it's a month later, what became of this bookclub?

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I read online at another forum, that the author that wrote 50 Shades of Gray, originally wrote Twilight fan fiction.. Laugh. Out. Loud. :lol: I guess for those that did read it, they rated the book/s mediocre, saying the writing was horrendous. So it sounds like the book wasn't that fantastic after all. I also heard, or rather read, that movies will be following?

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Late to this, but I've heard about it in my geekier forums. Sadly enough, I write fanfiction... but I can't fathom this getting published! From what I hear, it's the material rather than the writing that makes it sell.

Though I have a basic understanding of just what is in the book, all I can imagine is the horrible fanfiction I've seen around and it makes me laugh.

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From what I hear, it's the material rather than the writing that makes it sell.

Ugh.. You're right. I got so many friends on FB that are reading it. But from multiple reviews that I've read, there is a good majority of women out there that felt the book fell short in comparison to other written erotica. Something I wouldn't know about, of course, I've never read any myself.

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Ugh.. You're right. I got so many friends on FB that are reading it. But from multiple reviews that I've read, there is a good majority of women out there that felt the book fell short in comparison to other written erotica. Something I wouldn't know about, of course, I've never read any myself.

I follow a lady on Shelfari who is Mormon but seems to have a lot of racy romance novels on her shelf. I'm half-tempted to ask her to read this book and tell me how it compares to her other readings.

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