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

pure drivel - hated it. New Rules of Lifting for Women entertained me more

Brutal! I like the way you critique a book. lol!

I didn't care for the first one but decided to try the second one- I never finished it. It wasn't that it so totally shocked me; it's just very poorly written and I couldn't really get into the story. I agree that there are much better written and just as kinky stories out there! Media frenzy and the "taboo-ness" of it all made it a hit...

I liked them, however, I found myself skipping over the sex scenes from the 2nd book on. It seemed to be very repetitve. I can't wait to see what Christina Grey looks like though

I'm wondering how they are going to make this into a movie...
If you take out enough of the sex scenes to make it R rated - you've lost basically everything except the emotional abuse. People are going to pay to watch that? smh

It made me very angry. With whom, I'm not sure.

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!

Twenty years ago, the writing quality would have kept this book from being published. People aren't complaining about the quality because they didn't expect it to be bad. We complain because we're utterly disgusted that these books 1.) Got published and 2.) Got validated by becoming best-sellers.

And, finally, the vast number of women who think it's romantic and are "in love" with Christian Grey, who's an abusive nightmare that no one would really want to date if she met him. He's awful and exhausting in his controlling neediness. Just from reading a blog about it with a few excerpts from the book, I want to sneak into his red room of pain, find something long and sharp and STAB HIM TO DEATH.

And, yeah, there actually are people who think it's well-written and that makes me very sad.

Last night I got a massage and my MT said her boyfriend was egging her on to read the book, because he keeps hearing his male friends talk about how kinky things got after their women read it. Have seen messages from men here and on other boards saying the same thing.

Well, guess what, fellas? I know of at least one woman, a crass idiot with a husband and child, who is full into the whole 50 Shades thing and directed that energy not toward her own husband, but someone else's. So if your woman is into it, hooray for her I suppose, but your junk might not be the only junk she's hauling.

I have been trying to get thru book one for 2 months and I love to read. I think the book was seriously over hyped. I do not like the writing style of the author.

So, I found the audio books on YouTube. I've gotten through the first and partway through the second. And now that I REALLY KNOW what's in them -- word for word -- I wonder how anyone reads them.

I mean, there are poorly written books (anything by Nicholas Sparks) and there are unreadable books. This is unreadable. If I were trying to read instead of listen. I would have put it down and never picked it up again after the first couple chapters. It's AWFUL.

And the sex scenes? Well, the first couple were a bit of a turn-on -- I won't lie. But now they make me never want to have sex again. Enough. It's boring.

And, come on! WHO TALKS LIKE THAT??? WHO ACTS LIKE THAT??? These characters are ridiculous and annoying and beyond fake. They're worse than I thought they would be.

I hated it. Thank God I only bought the first book! I just couldn't stand how they gasp every page and her dang 'inner goddess' it annoyed the heck out of me lol

Everything is "going to be fun," too.

There are so many drinking game words and phrases, I could die of alcohol poisoning if I attempted it.

I couldn't even finished the first one lol..

I have one thing to say...

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

True Story!!!

I hated it. Thank God I only bought the first book! I just couldn't stand how they gasp every page and her dang 'inner goddess' it annoyed the heck out of me lol

There are so many drinking game words and phrases, I could die of alcohol poisoning if I attempted it.

:drinker: HAHA! I thought the same thing.

I am forcing myself to read all three of them because a) I am stubborn about finishing a series even if I don't like it, and b) I work in a Library so I feel a sense of responsibility to actually read the popular books. Then I can make true recommendations to patrons and not just go on reputation and hype.

I noticed all the parallels to Twilight in the first book before learning Fifty Shades is spawned from Twilight fan fiction. Overall, the whole thing reads like your standard-issue bodice-ripper romance. Dark and brooding alpha male who is going to be "Saved" by the woman who appears vulnerable and weak but finds her inner strength in the face of adversity, etc, etc.

Anyone else see attempted parallels to Wuthering Heights?

I'll have to give the "Sleeping Beauty" series a try! I enjoyed Rice's "Interview with the Vampire" series. Thanks for the rec!

Only read the first one and it seriously made me laugh. It was a pathetic attempt to be provacative and it failed. For all the build up on kink it was horrible. I'm sorry but I know the BDSM community and frankly that was a very poor representation. And the characters are horrible. The female has no life in her at all and honestly no guy is going to be that irresitable. This sotry was originally a Twilight fanfiction that was changed after a cease and desist letter was sent and it's really easy to tell that all she did was changes names. It's just sad. If people want really good kinky erotica there's MUCH better out there

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!

Twenty years ago, the writing quality would have kept this book from being published. People aren't complaining about the quality because they didn't expect it to be bad. We complain because we're utterly disgusted that these books 1.) Got published and 2.) Got validated by becoming best-sellers.

And, finally, the vast number of women who think it's romantic and are "in love" with Christian Grey, who's an abusive nightmare that no one would really want to date if she met him. He's awful and exhausting in his controlling neediness. Just from reading a blog about it with a few excerpts from the book, I want to sneak into his red room of pain, find something long and sharp and STAB HIM TO DEATH.

And, yeah, there actually are people who think it's well-written and that makes me very sad.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. This is exactly how I feel.