50 shades of grey is a pile of shite.

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

I quite enjoyed it However, I did think the sex wasn't as great as everyone made it out to be. I thought there would be a bit more S&M, not that I'm into that but it would have been more interesting than what was going on.

And who the bloody hell says Oh My?? ALL THE TIME.....
And all that inner goddess stuff was annoying.
And the lip biting...
And 'come for me baby'...

Was also a bit shite how he was soooo fucked up but she 'cured' him, then he changed so much he became a bloody wet blanket which put me off him a bit.

But saying that after the first book I wanted to find out what would happen to them (although you don't need to be Columbo to guess what does happen).

I will read the third book and hopefully it's not full of 'don't ever leave me' 'I never want to leave you' and is a bit more interesting and not as bloody soppy.
I mean honestly, I buy a book for some good old fashioned S&M and it's full of soppy love crap.

The book is about a self centred, ignorant, childish, control freak with attitude problems and a therapist who clearly isn't working, yet women are fawning over him....

Bluerch...

Never in my life have I been so bewildered at the popularity of something so utterly shit. I have overheard many, many an excited conversation about it from both complete strangers and people I know, like work colleagues, for example - something that initially led me to naively buy a copy out of curiosity.. Needless to say I gave up as soon as the 'oh my' and 'inner goddess' (what?) waffle started - I did skip to the sex scenes for a laugh first, though.
I must see on average one person a day reading one of the trilogy...When I went on holiday the other week there was a woman taking a photo of her 2 friends both reading their own copy on the plane and every other sunbed around the pool and on the beach had one and none of them laughing incredulously in the way I was when I attempted to read it!

I have enjoyed this thread far more than I enjoyed the first book. I have laughed out loud at some of the comments. I agree with Justme that Christian Grey is damaged, controlling and self centered. I hope my DDs never meet anyone like him.

I gave in and started to read it last night, I'm at the bit after the first (I'm guessing) spanking. Mills and Boon with sex, I think. That girl is a wet lettuce, and he's just a nasty piece of work IMO. However, if I was the author, perhaps I wouldn't be all that bothered about the one-star Amazon reviews right now....

I thought about reading it but decided I rather use the time to actually have sex with dh (he's fairly happy to have stolen my reading time for sex and all in all it's working great). Guess I could say the book has helped my sex life!

VeryStressed "And who the bloody hell says Oh My?? ALL THE TIME....."

Reminds me of Lions and tigers and bears - oh my! - so Dorothy in Wizard of Oz.
Equally naive heroine and by the dozenth Oz book, almost as badly written.

I admit I gave up around page 4 of 50 Shades, but the number of quotes I've seen from it I don't think I need to read more! At least all my friends are saying how dreadful it is for the same reasons as Twilight (wet heroine in abusive virginity-fetishising relationship) and the terrible SM (cable ties - just don't!)

He's damaged goods because of his crack whore mother ladies...he needs the love of a good and honest woman to turn him around.

The other idea being that the sub is the one with all the power, not the one wielding the vacuum cleaner hose over her buttocks.

It's another fantasy book, women sets out to change man, woman succeeds, man is grateful for the rest of his life and lives in bewilderment of his strong powerful goddess.

There is more fantasy just there than any of the helicopters, sex scenes and the "playroom" IMO!

All my friends who had read it and thoroughly enjoyed it thought I was weird because I gave up after a very long, hard, tedious read of the first 10 chapters. Never read such a badly written book....a page turner.....not in my opinion it isn't!! Utter crap!!

I am ashamed to say I read all 3 books, I found the writing terrible, I hope this 'author' gets a thesaurus for xmas, but I did want to find out what happened between the characters
I wasn't impressed by the sex scenes and by the second book I was flicking past them, I thought this was meant to be a trilogy full of bdsm...I've seen raunchier stuff on mtv!
Also is it just me or did anyone else feel that they didn't actually know what the characters looked like, I only realised in the third book that mr grey has ginger hair
And a 21yr old uni graduate who's a virgin and has no laptop!!? uni parties mustve been shit

I have just finished book 1. I thought it was fairly trashy but kind of interesting enough to keep going. I've read worse books. Some hilariously bad sex writing - pulling the condom over his impressive length, etc. and all the oh my and holy hell is a bit annoying. But I'm intending to read the next two .

Anyone watching the channel 4 documentary?

I appreciate that this is childish, but every time she mentions his "pants" I had a mental picture of him sitting around in his trollies, like the lodger in Notting Hill. His pants hang from his hips. Well they would right?

Being American I guess we're lucky she didn't decide to call him Willy Grey.

I was once in a business meeting with an American called Willy and a Briton called Dick. Willy and Dick, same room, same time. How often does that happen?