I have been reading an awesome chapter by chapter review of 50 Shades of Grey here. The lady reviewer has now gone on to the next book, 50 Shades Darker. And she is just as hilarious. I have no intention of reading this book, but I do have one niggling question about the heroine.
As I understand it, Steele (really. Steele. that’s kind of lame. like when you used to make up character names as a child and they’d all be like Annemarie Fyres or Jezebel Sexyface. or whatever) doesn’t own a laptop or a handphone. And she’s a literature student? Something like that.
I have a few questions, if this is true. i. Is she very poor? Because that would explain, and I would understand, why she doesn’t have a laptop or a phone. But if she isn’t: ii. Is she Amish? That is the only other explanation I can find for this.
Because does she think people study literature by staring at the soil under their feet and then writing about it? Perhaps she sends in reports based on her euphoric feelings after reading Tess of the D’urbervilles, no citations or references needed. Perhaps her university library has every single reference book and journal ever written on every topic in literature that she might happen to check up on, thus leaving her no reason to own a laptop (seeing as she has no friends aside from the one she lives with, it’s not like she needs the laptop to socialise).
Maybe she’s so hipster she doesn’t want a laptop. She writes all her assignments by hand and thinks Eliza Bennet is the best heroine in the entire universe ever. Maybe it’s just me and the really horrible educational resources in Malaysia, but I can’t imagine being a student without a laptop. Where do you type your assignments? Surf the web? Mock your friends? Access tutorials? Waste time watching Youtube videos?
Yet I will still not read 50 Shades, because it sounds terrible. And reading terrible books turns me into a F***ing Angry Person (FAP for the uninitiated *snigger*).
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