50 shades is BORING

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  • ihateroses
    ihateroses Posts: 893 Member
    I think what baffles me the most about the popularity of the book is that people read it FOR the sex scenes....not for the creepy 'love' story.

    The characters suck, the sex sucks, the writing sucks....and the author is getting paid soooo much money. I can only imagine all the authors of amazing erotica (romance+bdsm+alltheworks+GOOD writing) taking a hammer to their laptops and giving up after reading this stuff.

    NSFW: http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/chapter.php?storyid=242&chapterid=1869
  • RLDeShazo
    RLDeShazo Posts: 356 Member
    I think what baffles me the most about the popularity of the book is that people read it FOR the sex scenes....not for the creepy 'love' story.

    The characters suck, the sex sucks, the writing sucks....and the author is getting paid soooo much money. I can only imagine all the authors of amazing erotica (romance+bdsm+alltheworks+GOOD writing) taking a hammer to their laptops and giving up after reading this stuff.

    NSFW: http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/chapter.php?storyid=242&chapterid=1869

    shrug.....I enjoyed the creepy love story. The sex was rather vanilla, but I admit that I was a little shocked at how discriptive it was the first time (never read any erotica before).
  • FlyByJuly
    FlyByJuly Posts: 564 Member
    Jeez, oh my. While struggling through the book, I kept getting distracted by the sound of the tearing of foil packets. I'm all like "oh crap!" I spent most of my reading time rolling my eyes at my inner goddess because she kept doing those dreadful backflips. It was so....HOT when he flushed his used condom down the toilet, then tied my tampon in a knot and put it in his pocket. Oh, er....I got that backwards, didn't I? I hope he's not mad at me.

    edited to add: oh, double-crap!
  • Alex_is_Hawks
    Alex_is_Hawks Posts: 3,499 Member
    Story of O (Pauline Reage even with the publicized alternate ending, it's more real)
    Beauty Trilogy by A.N Roquelaure
    anything by Nancy Friday

    I second the recommendation for the Beauty Trilogy! And the Story of O!

    I did enjoy 50 Shades. Mindless summer reading. Wouldn't call them "boring" though.

    I forgot to add John Norman's Books of Gor series...
  • wannaplay2505
    wannaplay2505 Posts: 26
    Mommy porn. Wasn't even all that it was cracked up to be. Very VANILLA to me. So what? She got spanked.... AND???
  • Suezyq47
    Suezyq47 Posts: 199 Member
    I also found it boring and not very well written. I made it through 1/2 of the first book by forcing myself to read it to see if it got better and then just stopped reading it. I also am not into the whole domination and submission thing either. I don't know why these books are so popular. Most of my co-workers and friends also found the books boring and not very well written. I won't be seeing the movie if one is made either.

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