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blamebrampton ([personal profile] blamebrampton) wrote2012-08-22 07:13 pm

Ah the BBC …

Nobody poshes it up politely quite like the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz: 'And then, there is the issue of readers becoming authors, dramatically illustrated by the extraordinary success of EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey, a book that started life at a website for amateur writers responding to their favourite novels.'

[identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com 2012-08-22 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep telling myself that it is wrong to hate something that is so important to so many people as it must have some worth, but the best I can manage is to be happy that people find joy in it while hoping they one day find the same joy in books that are less … er, less …