Quick bit of context for this WTF: I am much younger than my half-siblings, with the result that the youngest of them was already about 20 by the time I was born. Most of them have children, some of which are around my age.
Anyway, eldest sister walks in earlier for a visit. (she lives nearby and visits my mother often) I'm sitting at the computer, as usual, and as she's walking past she says, "Hey [MYNAME], [MYNIECE] gave me a book to read."
Now, my sister isn't exactly known for having any interest in intellectual pursuits such as reading, unlike most of my siblings, and neither is [MYNIECE].
I just sorta shrug and go, "Okay." I'm more interested in the computer.
"It's called 'Fifty Shades of Grey', have you read it?"
Now, I'm sure most of your WTF-alarms will be ringing already here. The thing is, I didn't really know about the book. I vaguely remembered hearing bad things about it somewhere along the line, but that was it. I had a bad feeling about it, though.
"Uh, no," I say. A while later I decided to look it up on Wikipedia to find out just what was wrong with this book.
W. T. F.Good gods, this is disturbing.
I honestly don't know which is worse, the fact that my eldest sister is going to read this horrible thing, or the fact that my
niece, who is a couple of years younger than me, apparently read it and deemed it a suitable gift for her mother.
I'm clinging to the hope that maybe she hasn't read it, just saw it was popular and bought it without researching it first. I thought that whole 'Harry Potter' craze was bad, well. I tell you what, whilst I hated those books for being more popular than decent ones, at least they didn't involve, well, you know.
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