The news doesn't make Angers a specific case in France. But it doesn't make Angers a different city in France. The English erotic novel "Fifty shades or grey", in spite of critics, is a huge success in France and in Angers. The book in three volumes (the 2nd and 3rd are titled "Fifty shades darker" and "Fifty shades freed") "traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate and a young business magnate". The story is "notable for its explicitly erotic scenes featuring elements of sexual pratices involving bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, and sadism/masochism".According to some Angers booksellers, "Fifty shades of grey" made a stunning entry. "The book is doing great" in Angers, comments a city bookseller while one of his colleagues notices that the success exists in spite of a"teasing campaign relatively short". About 550 000 copies have been printed since the book arrived in France a week ago and 350 000 are already available in stores. Critics have not always been good for the book : the characters have no personality, the style is bleak and regarding sex, there is better elsewhere.
In Angers, some news coverages are not favourable and even disparage the purchasers. One of them harshly criticizes the novel and its readers through the title "The porno of housewives". These will appreciate... Why the Angers houswives should remain desperate?
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