Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Know Your Enemy

"The first thing to say about this decade’s multi-million-selling contributor to the art of terrible writing about sex is that she will not easily be mistaken for Andrea Dworkin. It’s not that Fifty Shades Of Grey and E.L. James’s other tie-me-up-tie-me-down spankbusters read as if feminism never happened: they read as if women never even got the vote."

Andrew O'Hagan of the London Review Of Books on the work of staggering genius that has got the world reading. Having been subjected to several passages by a friend who's ploughing through it for a book group (well, that's his excuse, at least), I can vouch for the veracity of everything O'Hagan says.

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