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Steamy Book Has Women Rushing To Libraries

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - Off go the clothes in this book.

Erotic literature, they call it. "Fifty Shades of Grey" is the No. 1 paperback and eBook right now and has been for months.

It's been called "good stuff" by one reader, because it's loaded with sex.

Not just sex, this is like a romance novel on steroids, pumped up with bondage and S&M.

Another reader called it "porn for women."

Some say it's long overdue, and word has spread at the Sacramento Public Library. Its 45 copies of the book are all checked out.

"And we have 870 holds on this title right now, which means there are 870 people waiting for it," said Librarian Nina Biddle.

As for the audio version, which has yet to arrive, it already has a waitlist.

"So we have 40 to 42 people waiting for that and we don't even have it," said Biddle.

Some public libraries around the nation don't want any part of the book, calling it too steamy and too poorly written.

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