50 shades of grey, yo

So...I don't want to get down on personal tastes in the case of reading, but to those of you who HAVE read the books, like them all you want, just please, for the love of god, do not say they are well written and GOOD literature. They are atrocious. I was not interested in paying money toward such a pathetic excuse for a writer, I decided to torrent the books to at least be able to honestly analyze the writing and have appropriate knowledge before condemning them.

This being said, I am by no means a prude, but if you call poorly written smut, where even all of the analogies are awfully written, HOT, well... maybe you should pick up something by Laurell K. Hamilton. Not my style in all honesty, though the Anita Blake books were at least decently written and when it became purely an excuse to write about sex after the fifth book, the sex scenes were at least well written.

50 Shades of Grey is one of the worst written series of our time. It was clearly written in the fashion of fanfiction. To say that I honestly can break apart almost every single sentence in the books and find some misuse of a word, run-ons, broken sentences or repetitive writing is just depressing. I never thought there could honestly be something worse than Twilight in terms of dismal writing and a sorry excuse for a plot. As much as all the Gorean tales were disgusting, at least they were better written than this pathetic attempt at writing.

Compare it to some Danielle Steel, Jackie Collins, Stephen King etc... sucks!! People need to compare it to other books from the same genre...

I would guess that most people who dislike this book and say bad things about it, don't read Erotica books, ever. Then they go and compare them to the books you mentioned. I think in reality most people are ignorant and get the idea that it's a forbidden subject somewhere along the lines or something to read those books, just like a lot of girls are against porn. IMO. I try to keep an open mind. When I first heard it i didn't know what it was. WHen I learned that it was an Erotica book, I knew it wasn't going to be a great plot, but even then I still find it highly intriguing. Maybe it helps that I have an open mind when it comes to sexual stuff, when most people don't tend to.

Lots of women are against porn because they believe it makes men behave violently and think women are just there for their enjoyment. I think that theory is bull crap; porn is just there for entertainment, and those who know the difference between right and wrong will treat others right, regardless of how many hours of porn they watch.

Just curious though, how much erotica have you read? I have read erotica online on fanfic websites -- and guess what? Not only did these pieces have STORIES, believable characters, believable internal and social conflicts, believable interations between characters, appropriate responses/emotions (as opposed to Christian's crazy mood swings), and reasonable resolutions, but they were also ACTUALLY erotic -- unlike Fifty Shades of Boring. My guess is that this was named "mommy porn" because it's so "soft" that even a mother could handle it. In fact, it's so soft that I usually read it right before bed, and instead of doing anything exciting, it puts me right to sleep! Anyway, back to your point, porn usually does have a lousy plot and lousy acting...and it would be so much more exciting for me if it looked real. Similarly, if I'm going to READ "porn" then I have already lost the visual and aural aspect of it, and I'd like some good writing to supplement that loss.

When I think of 50 shades of crapbook....

I think of this

Read them... I have a very open mind and knew what to expect when I got into them... I didn't expect much from the plot. I enjoyed them enough I will say that I have read other erotica books that were much much worse...

I read all three and loved my Mommy porn. My husband didn't mind the affect it had either. Of course, highly unrealistic, but I still was addicted to Christian....

I read all three only because I don't like to give up on a book and I continued to hope it would get better. I have a visual in my head of christian and the great sex but completely agree with that reviewer that the book is very misguiding suggesting that an abusive relationship -verbal or physical- is acceptable.

ETA: Ana was very much a duplicate of Bella and I could vision her making those same stupid ticks like Kristin Stewart while saying things like "holy crap, oh man, etc."

P.S. To anyone that did read all three books, did anyone else want to vomit while reading the last few pages for christian's popsicle statement?