50 shades of grey

[PatheticTrumpet]

WIBU to download it to my kindle tonight to see what all the fuss is about possibly get in THE mood ?

Oracle I'd have chucked him overboard for that! I was really uncomfortable reading that bit, surely that's domestic violence?!

Well I've just started the third in the series as I am finding them quite compelling. I read and enjoy "proper literature", vaguely titillating crap and all kinds of things in between. I don't confuse the genres - it's just like food; you know when you are eating Maccas that it doesn't really qualify as food but sometimes you just fancy it, fine dining is lovely but not what you want every day of the week. Lots of people are getting something out of these books!

It's only fantasy, I think it's really sexy, the dynamic- Ana is the one with the power to end it at any point, she is just exploring sexual possibilities, Christian is the one who is screwed up and will most likely end up a lonely old man.
When the intoxication subsides she can just chalk it up to experience but he is inherently damaged.
I think ana is more empowered than people realise.

I read the first book, it was quite addictive but very cheesy. Halfway through the second one and its shite, utter drivel and I can't believe I'm going to say it but there's too much sex, TOO MUCH its doing my head in....people don't have that much sex in real life do they?? Im going to skip to the end, in hope that we find out why Mr sex on legs is so messed up...billionaire at 27 my arse! Unless you invent something computery like Facebook you're not going to he a billionaire at 27 ffs!

Well, I'm quite enjoying it. I reminds me of when I read 'Forever' by Judy Blume, aged 12! It's pretty obvious that it's not likely to be Shakespeare! It's quite entertaining whilst stuck in a hostel room with no tv, waiting for hospital visiting hours!
I didn't consider the Twilight links, and TBH, if it is fanfic, I have to say, it's far better! in an entertaining crap kind of way!
Twilight did my fucking head in! I just wanted to stab each and every one of the characters to death with blunt implements! Bella was an absolute disgrace of a woman! And Stephanie Meyers ought to be ashamed of herself!

Ahh, judy Blume and forever. Those were the days.
50 shades of grey though, I'm not sure. I downloaded the sample on to my kindle and its so rubbish, and not a tiny hint of anything good. Would it be really worth paying to read the rest of it?

most fanfic improves on the canon saggy :-) especially when it comes to the x-rated stuff fic writers can get away with that films or tv couldn't!

I'm still waiting for this book to appear on my table, borrowed from a friend and DH's but I still think that better free stuff exists if you look for it :-)

search fan fiction and enjoy ;-)

i have been trying to read the first book. Its a bit annoying. I dont like how much shes being pressurised into it. I'll reserve judgement properly until ive read more, but i think the pressure grey puts her under is abusive and not what BDSM is all about AT ALL.

It's long but very funny!

Highbrows I LOVE Mark! I stalk on him on Facebook.

That link was classic. I replayed the 'first time' bit over and over I was laughing so much.

I have just brought it to see what all the fuss is about.

I read to page 120 and just couldn't carry on, shite!

anonacfr, I love him too, I so would - but alas I'm not his type, what with having a vagina and all

Possibly THE most unsexy book ever written. It makes you feel emotion towards the characters all right; blind hatred. I think my dog may have actually written this.

Im on the second one - finding it rather irritating especially the use of word sex to describe her female parts, inner goddess and so on. and the emails also boring

Also it's the only book I've ever read where all the characters have blank faces in my imagination! And I think I've got a pretty good imagination.

Bdsm also a bit tame

This is the funniest critique I have seen and yes I have read it...

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars When fan-fic goes global, 24 Jun 2012
By Ryan Williams (Lichfield, Staffordshire.) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)

This review is from: Fifty Shades of Grey (Paperback)
Finished Fifty Shades of Grey.

While I'm in no way a literary type - as we all know - I still believe a novel can teach us something vital.

Here's a brief list of the many lessons this novel has taught me.

1. People in Seattle, USA talk exactly the same as in Surrey, UK.

1. University-educated women still wear pink PJ's with fluffy bunnies on them.

1. University-educated women say 'Oh my God!', 'Crap!' and 'Double crap!' more times hourly than a teenage male thinks about sex daily.

1. A 'mega-industrialist tycoon' talks like a character from Le Morte D'Arthur...

1. ...and has time to spend his day ceaselessly e-mailing.

1. Newcomers to oral sex have no gag reflex.

1. The more ham-fisted allusions to Thomas Hardy, the more gravitas.

1. Forcing the word 'dearest' as many, many times as possible into a sentence really, really, improves it.

1. Spelling out your theme for the reader in every third chapter is an adroit strategy.

10. A sub's contract needs 3 appendices.

11. Orgasms feel like 'a spin cycle'.

12. A sentence like 'He's my very own Christian Grey-flavored popsicle' is deathless.
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I have masochistically started the third book now, and I can't believe how crap it still is. What annoys me is the red flagging that is going on with him being a controlling abusive arse. Covering her with marks to mark his territory and punish her because she went topples on a topless beach? not letting her out the house with friends? Never letting her out on her own? stalking her?

It's just an abusive relationship. It's sad and scary, not sexy.

:(

I agree. I was outraged when he insisted she got rid of her Beetle - I'd have kicked him to the kerb!

Yeah, it's the stuff that happens out of the playroom that disturbed me. Spanking, butt plugs, tying up, fine, whatever turns you on, safe words ahoy. But when they are not playing and he is still trying to control what he she eats,who she meets, what she wears, when she sleeps, etc etc...that's just well dodgy.

Agree!

See, I don't understand these complaints of how he is abusing her etc.

It's fiction.
Not an autobiography.
Not a relationship manual.

In real life, I would run a mile.
But in my fantasies... Oh my! (bites lip)

It's crap fiction, that's my issue.

According to a discussion im currently embroiled in on twatter im a prude and must be having a shit sex life because i loathe this book with a passion.

So there we go.

I think you must have a shit sex life if you do like any of what's written in the book - it's all dull and boring!