50 shades of grey is a pile of shite.

[EccentricaGallumbits]

Im only a couple of chapters in. please tell me it improves or i'll have to ditch it.

Oh god dont say that, I've got it here ready to start any day now

what were you expecting? it's notoriously awful.

It so badly written i want to go through it with a red pen.

And is it a complete twilight ripoff?

You must persevere Eccentrica, it does get better.

I might be lying. A lot

Ditch it it is absolutely shite!! I read the first six chapters and then jumped to the last chapter hoping it might of improved but nope!!

Its not even got vampires. or is mr grey one?

They are raving about it on FB so I was tempted to buy it - have £20 worth of Amazon vouchers to use up. But have read quite a few negative reviews as well...

The vampire stuff has all been taken out but it was originally written as twilight fanfiction.

What's to rave about? There's plenty of better-written smut on the internet.

Aww, I heard it was basically just smut that's why I have it on my kindle - is it not even good smut? :(

Just out of interest, where might one look for good smut?

Flick through and read the smut, read the second one straight through and then flicked through teh third.

Every other page for the smut.

It is worth reading just to snigger at. I'm only a few chapters in but am not feeling enthused to go out and buy the follow up books.

They are the only books that I feel I have appreciated the Kindle.

Ok, it is badly written but I will admit to finding it compulsive reading, even as I cringed whilst turning the page. You do want to find out what happens in the end, even though you end up feeling you don't care about the characters that much. I think it's worth reading just so you can join in hte debates and so that you know what everyone's on about!

I'm halfway through. It's STILL shit. it's not even well written; who the the writer sleep with to get a 3 book deal?!

Fairly certain its written by a man who watches far too much porn. Makes her come just by tweaking her nipples? Yeah, right.

What Campaspe said.
I'm nearly finished the third. It's shite, it's pap, the characters are pathetic and I want to bang their heads together....the writing is dire...but I must see how it ends.

I have skimmed every fuck scene after about the third.

The constant foil references put me off.

I have only read people saying bad things about it, so why is everyone reading it?

Every time he called her "baby" made me bleurgh.

dilly I think it made such big headlines as being the number one seller and was apparently saving marriages in the states as it injected new passion into a marriage after people had read it, that people myself included thought we'd better see what all the fuss was about!!

From another thread: cassandraparkin.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/adventures-in-trash-fifty-things-that-annoy-me-about-fifty-shades-of-grey/

'Come for me baby' (sticks fingers down throat to vomit)

Me too susiedaisy; seeing what all the fuss is about.

I'm plodding through it and am not shocked or tittivated (pardon the pun ) by anything so far...is it me?