Did you read the 50 shades of grey books?

[Justagirlwholovesaboy]

I can’t bring myself to watch the films, are they worth a try?

The books started life as Twilight fan fiction and were utter shite then, too. How they got published is anyone's guess. I wouldn't waste my time.

English is my second language and I found them so badly written! So I can't imagine if you are a native speaker.
I remember a bit where she is being described and she is blushing or something. I thought this was written by a teen and put it down.

I liked them

You often find dickens in charity shops too

Really badly written. Appallingly so. Not recommended.

Tried to read the first one and gave up.
Tried to watch the first film and was peeing myself laughing
'If you were mine you wouldn't sit down for a week'
what the hell is that lol

Read the first one because my Gran bought it for me for Xmas, the sick bastard. In all fairness she probs just picked up a couple of the paperback chart for my stocking filler that year. I did not enjoy it.

I read all the books (very quickly - they aren't exactly brain stretching!) and enjoyed them as much as I enjoy any trashy,basic novel . Watched the first film and thought it was appalling and Dakota Johnson was not how I imagined Anastasia to be. Haven't watched any subsequent films!

They're utter shite. Written badly and repetitive. BUT.... I like them.

It's sort of like watching American Lifetime movies or Sunset Beach on channel 5 back is n the 90's. They're terrible, badly written and worse acted but there's something that made me keep watching, just like the books.

I read all three but I had the same feeling of ‘bugger I’ve wasted hours of my life’ as I did after reading twilight - they’re very easy reads.
I felt uncomfortable with the love of a good women can fix a damaged man themes but my sisters both felt both sets were romantic anyway library books so no harm done.

Started the first one. 50 or so pages in I gave up because it was so terrible. I've never put down a book before. Easily worst book I've ever read

I prefer the Gilbert Gottfried audiobook.

Ugh, going to the cinema is bad enough without everyone getting turned on. Reminds me of the days of men in raincoats, getting their thrills, at a late night risque movie.

I read sample on my Kindle of the first book and it was so shite I couldn't read any further. I watched the 1st film and by the end I felt very uncomfortable. She was in an abusive relationship that was being portrayed as a BDSM relationship. The first rule of BDSM is it's consentual, she was being pressurised into it, that is not consentual.

I've got a FB friend who's really into erotic fiction and goes to all these book fests with a very strange group of friends. There seems to be a huge cult following, given the amount she goes to. Her profile photo is a picture of her taken with E L James....... . Worst part is that she shares links to these awful books.... most of whom appear to have been written by women "inspired" by 50 shades and with similar levels of grammar and story writing ability. I've recently unfollowed her, as I couldn't take another link..............

I’ve read all the books. They’re awful, but I have a personal rule that once I’ve started something I see it through to the end

I used to have that personal rule for myself. It was important to me to finish what I started, however tedious and wearing it might become.
Since I've turned 50 the need has passed. I now begrudge time spent on finishing books just as some personal challenge. I feel pretty sure that stage comes to us all sooner or later.

I read twilight, hunger games etc and actually liked them so my barbisbprerty low but 50 shades was dire. 5 pages in I just couldn’t continue it was so badly written. Also if Ana’s ‘mouth popped open’ one more time I was going to stick my fist in it!

You often find dickens in charity shops too

Well yes, you do. You find 1000s of different authors in charity shops.
You don't get 63 or 4 copies of the same book month in month out unless it's this one. And I've worked in a charity shop and the associated book shop for 10 years.

3 or 4. Not 63 or 4. That would be pretty specific.

I started the first book and ditched it because the writing was so dreadful - if she 'bit her lip' once she did it a thousand times in the first 20 pages (possibly slight exaggeration but you get my drift).

Don't get me wrong, I love a trashy, easy read, novel, but this was just utter tripe. Just goes to show, you can fool some of the people.....

It didn't look like my sort of thing when I flicked through a copy of the first one.

However, I wouldn't sneer at them - the author wrote the first one as fanfic, IIRC and it became popular of its own accord, without any of the annoying hype that surrounds book launches by popular authors. They're like numerous other best sellers, badly written, but commercially successful - if people like them, what's wrong with that?

I read the trilogy. The first as part of an online book group. The next two because I just could not believe how popular they were. They are the worst type of garbage I have ever read.

Its popularity makes me incredibly annoyed that some people hold this up as a good bit of writing.

Oh goodness. I read the first one. Bollocks. It was even worse than I thought. It was written by a teacher?! Awful book.

Somewhere on the Internet is an absolutely hilarious piss take and savage deconstruction of 50 Shades, chapter by chapter, written by a feminist who “reads shit so you don’t have to”. The writing style was mercilessly criticised.
I wish I could remember what it was called, I’d post a link. I was in tears of laughter, but also angry at the book for normalising abusive relationships.

I might be wrong she's a teacher actually. But a graduate of some sort, it's really poorly written.