Reading - 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Now America's Only Book

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By Hamilton Nolan Apr 30, 2012 11:05 AM

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‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Now America’s Only Book

The number one fiction book in all of America today: soft core spank-sex LOLrotica extravaganza Fifty Shades of Grey. The number two fiction book in America: the sequel, Fifty Shades Darker. The number three fiction book in America: Fifty Shades Freed, the final entry of the "erotic trilogy."

The nonfiction category is, by comparison, a veritable Platonic Academy of intellectualism. Heaven Is For Real is no higher than number six.

What will Americans read when they tire of S&M fucking? Maybe some kind of vampire fucking again.

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