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"Fifty Shades" of Fiasco

Infamous

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Fifty Shades of Grey

EL James' life changed when she saw the Twilight movies. She bought the books, read them all in one sitting, and then started lurking in the fan pages. Eventually, she discovered the fan fiction pages,. And then she started writing. It was popular. Then it got picked up by a small Australian publisher.EL James quit her boring day job. The book took off. There are romantic fiction writers who put a lot of sex in their books. I don't know why this one has particularly taken off. Okay. Because I hate to break the news, but you will, of course, not get the Nobel Prize. But why do we read it to the end? I think it

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