Fifty Shades of Grey this.. Fifty Shades of Grey that..

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I really want to find out why he is the way he is and see how their relationship pans out.

Speaking of pans, didn't she get spanked senseless with one in chapter 3? :tongue:

A girl read out a section of this book in English today, but the only thing I know about the plot is that it originated as Twilight fan fiction, and the writer seems to rely heavily on graphic BDSM description

I'm not claiming to have read it, but it sounds like porn truly isn't limited to the internet.

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Reply 141

Carolus

I read them to see whether they could be as bad as I expected - they are.
I found it similar enough to twilight that I was half expecting his Deep Dark Secret to be "oh im vampire", and that was before I found out it was a twilight fan-fic. I noticed there seem to be a fair few incidents etc in the books that make a lot more sense if you imagine that :Edward:

Grey's a vampire.
One of my (many) issues is that the series is about 1300 pags of nothing happening. The only conflicts that occur are swiftly resolved in the space of about five pages, and mostly involve introducing hitherto unknown elements so that they make any sense.
The fact that it's all written in the present tense was, I assume, an attempt to make it seem more involving, but it just made it irritating to read.
Also, those exchanges of cutesy emails that start popping up every few pages made me want to stab my eyes out.

On a more positive note, I did quite enjoy the line "I must be the colour of the communist manifesto".

Dinally, does anyone know if it was originally Twilight with BDSM, or if the BDSM was introduced to replace him being a vampire?

Reply 142

F Ellen

Has anyone read 50 Shades of Clegg yet? :colone:

Reply 143

Jono404

Excerpts from it I've seen just sound pretty cringeworthy really..."front wall of my vagina"? Ergh.

Reply 144

tillytots

I bought it today, caved in to the hype.

Reply 145

Scott129

Original post by Aisha~~

Terrible work of erotica. Plot is basically; billionaire finds cute girl. They have sex. The sex gets kinkier and kinkier.

It seriously feels like it's been written by teenagers. The main character is tall, dark, handsome, a billionaire, has an enormous dick, doesn't have to work much, spends his money helping those in poverty, ripped, etc. Basically all of the mainstream attractive traits blown up massively in proportion.

Throw in cute virgin girl discovering her darker sexual desires and you have a wonderful formula for wetting the panties of the more reserved female readers. It's the literary equivalent of really cliche porn. All exaggerated oooh and aaahing, not much real substance.

Why are you not reviewing books full time?

Reply 146

username402722

Last year hardly a day went by without someone on the tube having a Swedish detective story. Now it's spot the woman reading this book (three this week).

Reply 147

Rascacielos

It's funny because it's a book that I would previously have been interested in reading but now I'm just being stubborn and not reading it simply because everyone else is.

Reply 148

Schmucks

The parodies were funny for 24 hours, now they're tedious. Especially the ones on twitter, deary me.

I'm curious about how good this book actually is though - Obviously not aimed at me by a long stretch, but to have so much hysteria over it is ridiculous.

Reply 149

username917703

Original post by Daydreamer18

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9389109/Boyfriend-squirted-partner-with-brown-sauce-when-she-refused-to-stop-reading-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey.html

:rofl:

. I was in fits of laughter at this, but maybe I should cry. I'm not sure.

He said that he did what he did to Miss McCormick to show her what saucy really meant.

Reply 150

Shockley

"oh my friend says its a good book," "i know a friend who's been reading it.." "my friend says I should buy it.."

If you've heard any of the above from anyone, it means they are trying to justify their reason for buying a book that they can fr*g off to.

Reply 151

Grammar Kid

I read the book online.... i wasnt going to buy it but wanted to read it becaus of the hype

the first one was ok but i really enjoyed the second and third one tbh...

Reply 152

raaachek

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/culture/2012/07/stop-being-mean-fifty-shades-grey

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Reply 153

Miss Trololol

It's such a terrible book series. So utterly poorly written with cliches everywhere. If I have to read a line about Ana's "Inner Goddess" I might just tear my eyes out and stamp on them

Honestly, I'm just gobsmacked that so many people are buying into it. With Twilight, you could kinda understand the appeal since it was aimed at idiot teenagers who didn't know any better. Fifty Shades of Grey is aimed at adults who should know that emotionally and physically abusive relationships ARE NOT OKAY by any stretch of the imagination.

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Reply 154

Nadindi

I read Fifty Shades of Grey at the insistence of one of my friends... she's not really into reading, but urged me to read it because it was a book she actually enjoyed. It's such an awful book that I actually ended up enjoying reading it simply because it was so ridiculously bad xD

The erotica was repetitive, unrealistic and appallingly cheesy somehow, even for what's meant to be BDSM, the story was shallow and at times completely nonsensical, I despised the main character, and the writing looked like exactly what it had been converted from; an awful piece of fanfiction written solely for the purpose of getting one's own sexual frustration for fictional characters out there for everyone else to look at... and made sellable by shifting a few names to prevent copywright infringement.

But yes, I did read the whole trilogy... simply for the lulziness of it. Though I now feel bad for having contributed to the whole "Best selling book ever" malarkey of it. :rolleyes:

Reply 155

Colour Me Pretty

Halfway through and I am giving up: anything I say will just be echoing the sentiments of what everyone else said, but it is awfully written.

This was posted from The Student Room's iPhone/iPad App

Reply 156

JordanS94

I'm glad my mother isn't reading this... At least she is reading something good :smile:

A song of ice and fire :biggrin:

Reply 157

battycatlady

It's ok for what it is: if you want a quick thrill read you don't need to concentrate on then it's great, but if you're looking for quality writing it's the wrong book to be reading.

What bugs me is when people who have no interest in reading decide to buy it because of the hype and then go 'omg it's the best thing I've ever read!'

I'm like 0.o

Reply 158

CalebFudgeBrownie

I don't understand the hype either. Apparently it's poorly written, so maybe it's the idea of the books that interests people? Surely it has to be, otherwise those who wouldn't read by choice wouldn't be obsessing over it, would they? Maybe its purpose is to encourage people to read.