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kalikshama -> Hotel Replaces Bible With '50 Shades of Grey' (7/26/2012 3:01:51 PM)
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Are hotel guests more interested in reading "50 Shades of Grey" than the Bible?
One British hotelier thinks so. And that's why, even though he says he's never read E L James' best-selling novel himself, Jonathan Denby has decided to remove all the Gideon Bibles from his hotel's 40 rooms and replace them with the book that's been dubbed "mommy porn."
He made the switch earlier this month at the Damson Dene Hotel in the Lake District of England.
Denby writes on his blog, Slow Life: "Tonight millions of women will be curling up in bed with a good book and you can bet your life it won't be the Bible. More likely than not it will be 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I haven't read the book yet -- I'm not in the target audience -- but I'm told it's a ripping good yarn and everyone who's in the target audience loves it. This made me wonder about the sense of providing a book, the Gideon Bible which no-one reads, and many dislike, in the bedside cabinet of our hotel bedrooms, instead of a book which everyone wants to read, such as 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
"In this secular age it seems distinctly odd that anyone would expect to find a religious book in a hotel bedroom."
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/fifty-shades-grey-replaces-bible-british-hotel/story?id=16853389#.UBG9zbSe5Hc
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