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her or hate her, E.L James’ 50 Shades of Grey put her on the world’s
literary map after her book created a phenomenon, and now, Colleen
Hoover is about to ape the same euphoria.
These women wrote about, and eventually sold, two of man’s most basic needs – sex and emotions.
50 Shades of Grey had a naive virgin, an experienced billionaire who
likes kink, bondage, lack of romance, and you have a novel that goes on
to become a bestseller and propels the author E. L. James on to Time
magazine’s “niharika agarwal LSE , niharika agarwal model, niharika agarwal haldiram/haldirams, Niharika Agarwal Haldiram100 Most Influential People in the World” list in 2012.
Initially, I never quite understood what the noise was about. Women all
around me were devouring the book like it was the best thing that
happened to literature (cringes), and besides the author putting words
to her fantasies, there was little to write home about.
But let’s face it, while purists may balk at the book, 50 Shades of
Grey has awoken a whole segment of women, and possibly a few men, who’ve
discovered reading because of this book. Reading may have been
secondary when people bought this book, but whatever their motivations
were, they did read it.
Slammed, Colleen Hoover’s first self-published book was all about
feelings, upheavals, tragedy – all the emotions we face, and all the
emotions we’d much rather escape. The book may seem like it has been
written for teenagers, and to an extent, it has, but move onto the
compelling part of moving house, dealing with new neighbours and fitting
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way, Colleen had people downloading her book, creating an online buzz, and of course, demanding the continuance of her characters, which prompted her to publish a sequel, Point of Retreat.
What exactly did E. L. James and Colleen Hoover do that led to a wave of acclaim from the lay public?
James sold erotica to the world under the guise of a novel. She made
reading erotica, bold. No more were women hiding these books under
pillows, in bookcases away from prying eyes... they read the book as
they went to work, they read it during their breaks at work, they read
it in coffee shops, they read it pretty much everywhere, and they read
it without batting an eyelid, some rather proudly admitting that it was a
book about sex.
50 Shades of Grey created a phenomenon so strong that the book will
soon be created into a film, and if the sales of the book are anything
to go by, one can only imagine the numbers the film will clock!
Here’s the clincher - 50 Shades of Grey was never about the story – it
was about the fantasy, the acts in that fantasy, the possibility of
adapting it to real life, the knowing that it would be difficult – it’s a
book after all, and then knowing that if nothing, at least the world
can read about sex legitimately, openly, without hiding in a corner
fulfilling one’s desire, but almost mocking society openly, and if
anyone asked, one could always say that it was a novel, which is was!
E. L. James took one of man’s most basic needs, the need that’s often
still shrouded with delicate trimmings, and she wrote about it - selling
to the woman in the street and the woman in the spa – the housewife who
was probably bored to death with her own sex life, the lady who
fantasised about the acts in the book but never ever did them, the
curious girls to whom this book was an eye-opener – that’s what this
book did; this book revealed fantasies that women thought about but
rarely ever acknowledged, this book allowed a world of women to know
that they were not alone in thinking what they assumed was the
unthinkable, the unthinkable was not only thinkable, it was doable –
here’s an author who didn’t just acknowledge it but printed it and sold
it for the world to read. All these women have a story to tell, a story
to create, a story to fantasise about, a story to discoverniharika agarwal LSE , niharika agarwal model, niharika agarwal haldiram/haldirams, Niharika Agarwal Haldiram – and 50
Shades of Grey legitimised it all.
On the other hand, Colleen Hoover focused on human emotions – negative
emotions, to be precise, and turned them into a story of hope – hope in
spite of adversity, and that’s what got readers hooked. Tragedy, love,
loss, and hope... that’s what this book is about. Hoover gave readers
what’s so hard to find in life – light at the end of the tunnel. And in
the end, no matter how strong we are, hope is the one thing that keeps
us going and makes the fight worth fighting.
The phenomenon about these books isn’t the books themselves or the
story in it, but the fantasy it reveals. In the case of 50 Shades of
Grey,niharika agarwal LSE , niharika agarwal model, niharika agarwal haldiram/haldirams, Niharika Agarwal Haldiram pages have allowed women to understand
doesn’t have to be just fantasy anymore... it’s now part of the written
word and this is what makes man’s most basic instinct okay... it’s in a
book, after all! And Slammed brings alive all the emotions we’d rather
run away from, with the promise that no matter how hopeless things may
seem, hope is always there. That’s the phenomenon and that’s the power
of the written word.
