50 Shades of Grey....Love it or Hate it?

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  • dahkneeka
    dahkneeka Posts: 163 Member
    Half way through the first book- im hooked BUT.. I cant help but notice the repetition of phrases like "lips pressed tight". Surly, there are other words or phrases which could be more intriging.
  • dollflour
    dollflour Posts: 7
    I bought the book about two months ago and still cannot get past page 10. I guess that I don't know if I like it, being an avid reader, if I can't get past the tenth page I don't know how good it can be.
  • LoriBeMe
    LoriBeMe Posts: 165 Member
    Not a fan! Boring book until at least 100 pages into it. Not into insecure, wishy-washy women (or men for that matter). I think she was a bigger idiot than him.

    **edited for spelling**
  • classy2731
    classy2731 Posts: 13
    I haven't read the 50 Shades yet but I did like Bared to You and Reflected in You by Sylvia Day!
  • orangesmartie
    orangesmartie Posts: 1,870 Member
    I have one thing to say...

    There is better written, kinkier, and best of all FREE stuff online...

    This. I write better and kinkier stuff myself, too. I've always said that if you're going to write about something, you have to have lived some part of it, or you'd better have a good imagination. She clearly has neither....

    the surprising bit is Erica has lived it. the only excuse i can think of is that she was writing for a fanfic audience and toned it down
  • AmyP619
    AmyP619 Posts: 1,137 Member
    LOVED THEM!
  • JennetteMac
    JennetteMac Posts: 763 Member
    CBA, too many good books out there waiting to be read. Or paint to watch drying...
  • wildcat808
    wildcat808 Posts: 140 Member
    i got into the first book, but the second one didn't excite me one bit. i think i got up to chapter 3... i will watch the movie, though!!
  • silvergurl518
    silvergurl518 Posts: 4,123 Member
    the writing was terrible. WAY too many grammatical and spelling mistakes. drove me nuts. plus, i could never shake the feeling that i was reading something a high schooler might write. you know how when you're reading a fantastic book you almost forget that you're reading and get transported into the story/characters/plot? yeah. that didn't happen with 50 shades. ever.
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    the writing was terrible. WAY too many grammatical and spelling mistakes. drove me nuts. plus, i could never shake the feeling that i was reading something a high schooler might write. you know how when you're reading a fantastic book you almost forget that you're reading and get transported into the story/characters/plot? yeah. that didn't happen with 50 shades. ever.

    Wait, you mean you were unimpressed with the fact that Ana didn't know what that "funny, tingly feeling down there" was? LMAO! When I first read that I was like "Wait, how old is this girl?"
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    I have one thing to say...

    There is better written, kinkier, and best of all FREE stuff online...

    This. I write better and kinkier stuff myself, too. I've always said that if you're going to write about something, you have to have lived some part of it, or you'd better have a good imagination. She clearly has neither....

    the surprising bit is Erica has lived it. the only excuse i can think of is that she was writing for a fanfic audience and toned it down

    Not saying she didn't, but if she actually DID live it and could write a really compelling story then why bother with a fanfic version of it? IMO Fanfic is a place where writers go when they have writers block (I've been told to try that when I am suffering from writers block). The characters are already developed all you're doing is putting them in a different situation. I'm not saying it doesn't take an imagination to do this what I am saying is she could have wrote a complete fiction story based on her own experiences. She also didn't have to make it so twilightesque (I know that was the fanfic she chose to base it off of).

    I wonder how the author of Twilight feels about this book and how people are saying it's just like Twilight. If it were me and someone ripped off the characters from my book I'd be a bit annoyed over it. It takes a lot of thought and time to create the characters in a book and make them real and leap off the pages. To have someone rip mine off because they were too lazy to create their own would annoy me.
  • kr1stadee
    kr1stadee Posts: 1,774 Member
    Ehh.. I liked them, but it became repetitive and I got sick of reading about sex. Really I did.
    I was given another book, Bared To You, and I haven't even cracked the cover yet.
  • _JR_
    _JR_ Posts: 830 Member
    I'm writing my own version - 4 Shades of JR.

    Takes place in the Sporting Goods Dept at Walmart. There won't be a "Red Room of Pain", but there will be a "Blue Tent of Tickling".

    I'm gonna make it a pop-up book!

    Taking orders now!
  • AngryDiet
    AngryDiet Posts: 1,349 Member
    I'm writing my own version - 4 Shades of JR.

    Takes place in the Sporting Goods Dept at Walmart. There won't be a "Red Room of Pain", but there will be a "Blue Tent of Tickling".

    I'm gonna make it a pop-up book!

    Taking orders now!

    A little bit of tweaking and you can incorporate a boomstick.
  • _JR_
    _JR_ Posts: 830 Member
    I'm writing my own version - 4 Shades of JR.

    Takes place in the Sporting Goods Dept at Walmart. There won't be a "Red Room of Pain", but there will be a "Blue Tent of Tickling".

    I'm gonna make it a pop-up book!

    Taking orders now!

    A little bit of tweaking and you can incorporate a boomstick.

    Well, I did already have Bruce Campbell picked out to act my part in the movie.
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
    HATE IT
  • NWCyclingBeast
    NWCyclingBeast Posts: 157 Member
    "Vomitous Trash!" Well put!
  • lachesissss
    lachesissss Posts: 1,298 Member
    I'd murder myself if I ever turned out as vapid and easily controlled as Anastasia Steele. I much prefer the Bared to You series by Sylvia Day. At least Eva Tramell has a muthfvcking backbone in it (even if Day completely ripped off James and then, shamed her by doing it better).
  • HeatherLaShae4
    HeatherLaShae4 Posts: 59 Member
    oh gosh ,, i NEED me a christian grey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what i would give...................... lol shew.. now im gonna go read it again hahahahaha
  • kristarablue2
    kristarablue2 Posts: 386 Member
    Read all three, they were alright, but honestly I did not think they were all that dirty. Thought the sex was somewhat......vanilla...I thought it was boring after a while and not so creative..but an ok read
  • msmoxie68
    msmoxie68 Posts: 15 Member
    The Ann Rice books were definately much better than the 50 Shades books. I trudged through them just to get it over with. The third book was totally useless !! Where's the free online erotic fiction ?? Buying them at Barnes and Noble is kinda embarrasing :blushing:
  • kristarablue2
    kristarablue2 Posts: 386 Member
    oh gosh ,, i NEED me a christian grey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what i would give...................... lol shew.. now im gonna go read it again hahahahaha

    I get the Christian Grey character is interesting, but man, he is a sick individua, i could not get past his crazyl, in theory he seems fun, good looking and wealthy and yes that level of ownership is fun for a hot second then becomes crazy after a minute....give me an emotionally semi crazy over just pure crazy anyday...(crazy can be good and fun or really bad and dark, his is the later)
  • ShreddedTweet
    ShreddedTweet Posts: 1,326 Member
    The people who love it seem to think the people who hate it hate it because they're prudes when in fact it's the other way around...Honestly, if you're an adult and hadn't even tried any of that stuff before you read this ridiculous, poorly written Twilight fan fiction you're the prude! Personally I hated the writing style even more than the lukewarm sex scenes.
  • ickybella
    ickybella Posts: 1,438 Member
    Hate, couldn't finish the first book. It's a poorly written piece of cringe-worthy pseudoporn for people who, I can only assume, have never had sex (or maybe just haven't had sex in a VERY long time).
  • SarahCW1979
    SarahCW1979 Posts: 572 Member
    I read them all. If Christian Grey is in any way 'kinky' my husband must be a really sick puppy. The 'inner goddess' crap got old fast. I didnt find it shocking at all, in fact they are so tame I gave them to my mother :laugh:
    Also, you'd have to be under 5' and extremely bendy to manage sex in an R8 :wink:
  • paulajune87
    paulajune87 Posts: 56 Member
    I LOVED them. And for everyone that complains about the writing quality, let me sum it up like this.

    Complaining about the literary quality of 50 Shades is like complaining about the story line in Magic Mike. NO ONE watched it for the plot.

    Also, my boyfriend really appreciated me reading those books. In fact, I think he'd prefer I read books like that more often!
  • pocketmel
    pocketmel Posts: 50
    LOL! I am afraid to ask. :P
    :laugh:
  • tiamaria3
    tiamaria3 Posts: 92 Member
    Love, love, loved them!!!!


    Yep yep!!! I enjoyed reading them....:bigsmile:
  • SamiSamiBoBlammy
    SamiSamiBoBlammy Posts: 868 Member
    Hated them. Seriously ****ed up story, and I'm sad that so many people think this is prince charming...

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  • pocketmel
    pocketmel Posts: 50
    pure drivel - hated it. New Rules of Lifting for Women entertained me more

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