Look, I'm not proud to have read the 50 Shades trilogy- but it gives me the authority to say that this is a fairly amazing and spot-on parody of the works of E.L. James. Imagine, if you will, a young Anna Steal, who is so beyond naive that she is just outright dumb; and a constantly smirking Earl Grey, who is a young billionaire with dark secrets that turn out to really not be that dark this side of the 1950s. There are some pretty hilarious pieces of writing in here- including an in-depth description of how elevators work, helicopter escapades, characterizations of Anna's friends that are much more interesting than those in the original, everything that happens in the Dorm Room of Doom, a guitarist almost killed with a 16-sided die, and repeated uses of the phrase "they gazed gazingly at each others gazes."
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, by Andrew Shaffer, 217 pages
Look, I'm not proud to have read the 50 Shades trilogy- but it gives me the authority to say that this is a fairly amazing and spot-on parody of the works of E.L. James. Imagine, if you will, a young Anna Steal, who is so beyond naive that she is just outright dumb; and a constantly smirking Earl Grey, who is a young billionaire with dark secrets that turn out to really not be that dark this side of the 1950s. There are some pretty hilarious pieces of writing in here- including an in-depth description of how elevators work, helicopter escapades, characterizations of Anna's friends that are much more interesting than those in the original, everything that happens in the Dorm Room of Doom, a guitarist almost killed with a 16-sided die, and repeated uses of the phrase "they gazed gazingly at each others gazes."
Look, I'm not proud to have read the 50 Shades trilogy- but it gives me the authority to say that this is a fairly amazing and spot-on parody of the works of E.L. James. Imagine, if you will, a young Anna Steal, who is so beyond naive that she is just outright dumb; and a constantly smirking Earl Grey, who is a young billionaire with dark secrets that turn out to really not be that dark this side of the 1950s. There are some pretty hilarious pieces of writing in here- including an in-depth description of how elevators work, helicopter escapades, characterizations of Anna's friends that are much more interesting than those in the original, everything that happens in the Dorm Room of Doom, a guitarist almost killed with a 16-sided die, and repeated uses of the phrase "they gazed gazingly at each others gazes."
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment