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Originally Posted by danielle_ftv
Hahaha....unfortunately I think that some women think that the series is an example of good writing. They just need to be introduced to new (well written) novels. I think that all the publicity the series received also caused a lot of people to get sucked into reading the books.
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It reminds me of when the movie "Deep Throat" became so popular in the '70s. It was only slightly better than other porn movies of the time, but caught on and became very popular and the movie to see. Especially for people who never viewed porn before. Timing is everything. lol
The following is from Wikipedia.
"Deep Throat was glowingly reviewed by Al Goldstein in Screw magazine on June 5, 1972. It officially premiered at the World Theater[3] in New York on June 12 and was advertised in The New York Times under the bowdlerized title Throat.
The film's popularity helped launch a brief period of upper-middle class interest in explicit pornography referred to by Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times as "porno chic". Several mainstream celebrities admitted to having seen Deep Throat, including Martin Scorsese, Brian de Palma,[4] Truman Capote, Jack Nicholson and Johnny Carson.[5] Barbara Walters mentions having seen the film in her autobiography, Audition: A Memoir.[6] Jimmy McMillan considers it to be his favorite film.[7]
The film's title soon became a pop culture reference, most notably when then–Washington Post managing editor Howard Simons chose "Deep Throat" as the pseudonym for a Watergate informant, many years later revealed to be W. Mark Felt."