The average reader will spend 11 hours and 30 minutes reading this book at WPM words per minute. Daunted by the singular tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house.
Fifty Shades is a series of erotic novels by E. The series traces the deepening relationship between college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and young business man, Christian Grey. Gray has three undertones. And this is why your gray wall might look blue, green or purple, because you missed the undertone before you painted the walls.
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How many copies of the Fifty Shades of Grey series sold? Here's the bottom line. The book is ridiculous, poorly written drivel. For all those who thought this was hot, I shake my head at you in horror.
The character of Christian was a 1, percent flawed human being who was molested as a child and never grew up. If that's the definition of hot, I must be missing something. For all the housewives who are buying this "mommy porn" If this book was written with the EXACT same characters, but Christian was a plumber instead of a millionaire, you wouldn't think it was so great.
Or, if Christian was black and lived in Compton, you'd be appalled, and would be marching on libraries everywhere to get them to remove these books. The only reason women like this is because he's written as being white, attractive and RICH. This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers. Show full review. Katrina Passick Lumsden. My reaction whenever someone tells me they love these books: Fifty Shades of Bad Writing my fourth review of this cultural clusterfuck. My review of what encapsulates the first two "books".
My review of the third. It is that bad. Not "inspired" by, not "Twilight for adults. It is Edward. Those are Twilight plot points.
It is not original fiction. It was also cobbled together from a bunch of other fanfics. There is nothing original about it. It is an affront to the romance genre and everyone who reads real romance novels. This is not real BDSM. It is an insult to the lifestyle and everyone who participates in it. They are not in a BDSM relationship.
That is made clear. And yet: He overpowers her. He isolates her. He makes her fear him. He threatens physical abuse against her when she doesn't obey his commands. He tells her he wants to beat the shit out of her. She feels she has to do things she truly doesn't want to please him. That's not romantic. That's abuse. Go read some real books by real authors. Sandy S. At this point, the reviews are numerous, merciless, angry and seductive. I had planned to write a review based on the storyline, but I think I shall divert down a different path.
But a couple of emails from a marketing director, and an agent requesting my thoughts brought me up short. Maybe I should read the books and see what all the fuss is about? Descriptions from erotica, erotic romance, soft to hard core porn and BDSM have been used to categorize the genre, but in my opinion, the truth may very well lie somewhere in between or in a combination of descriptive titles and subjects.
Many reviewers opposed to the storyline content have attacked the quality of the writing comparing it to fan fiction and drivel. I will not address quality, as many other books I have read and reviewed, have been of a much poorer quality than this particular series, and yet the storylines have been interesting. Erotic Adult Fiction: Erotic adult fiction is now a female driven genre both as a reader and an author. Once the domain of men, women writers usually under author pseudonyms or initials only are pushing the envelope of erotic fiction.
Once considered written porn, the genre of erotic fiction is fast becoming main-stream adult literature. Why the rise in popularity? Several reasons. The popularity has increased with the advent of ebooks. The anonymity for the reader, hidden behind the electronic age of virtual books, allows for anyone to purchase a book, without the fear of retribution, side-long glances from the 18 year old store clerk or 60 year old librarian, and instant gratification so to speak for availability-similar to the days of Playboy and Hustler wrapped in brown paper on the upper shelves in the magazine section at the local corner store.
Women and men no longer have to fear being judged by a stranger for their choices in reading material. Fetishes are usually harmless-an odd attraction -voyeurism e. Many people believe as long as no one is hurt or being forced, and everyone is over 18, who are we to judge.
But there is always the fine line. But if a fetish escalates into perversions or something illegal e. Once thought as deviant behavior, especially for women….. What was once unacceptable as reading material, is now a main stream best seller. Many erotic storylines involve explicit sexual descriptive narration. The language is graphic and there is virtually nothing off limits except children and familial relations.
Many women are now reading novels or series of novels featuring homosexual storylines. Again…fantasy is the operative word. Television and the film industry have long had a rating system for what is perceived as appropriate for different age groups. And saying that…. Identification is not required when ordering a book online from most of the websites…..
Saying that, I wonder how many minors under 16 are reading erotica and sexually graphic storylines with the advent of ebooks? Like everything in life, there are degrees and valuations, and varying shades of grey pun intended.
Like a sliding color wheel, the BDSM content is revealed in shades and degrees. Yes, there are times when a soft-line is pushed, but it is addressed throughout the story. This story is about addressing the truth, acknowledging responsibility, the loss of power and control, and the fight to gain it all back. This story is also about acceptance, finding love, losing and taking steps towards recovery.
The practice of BDSM is wide ranging and is often misinterpreted by the lay-people not involved in the practice. BDSM has been labeled everything from a fetish to a perversion, but when the people involved are consenting adults, wholly aware of the circumstances and the situation, the behavior or role-playing is acted out according to a specific script of behaviors and actions.
There are rules, agreements, safety words, consequences and varying degrees of pleasure all safe and legal -to which a question must be addressed-Who are we to judge a lifestyle that is different from our own?
Informed Consent-Psychological Definition: Informed consent is a legal procedure to ensure that a patient or client knows all of the risks and costs involved in a treatment. The elements of informed consents include informing the client of the nature of the treatment, possible alternative treatments, and the potential risks and benefits of the treatment.
In order for informed consent to be considered valid, the client must be competent and the consent should be given voluntarily. But the underlying current of BDSM becomes blurred when the title character of Christian Grey, at 15years old, becomes the submissive to a woman several years older.
As a sexual predator, the woman holds power and control of the teenage boy, shaping him into the man who would one day run a billion dollar enterprise. And it is this relationship that directs and controls all of his future endeavors and needs. Even in the world of high finance and business, power and control is the ultimate aim.
And she is NOT without some power of her own. I guess like everything in life, we must make decisions based on research, trial and error, and public opinion.
And in the end, sometimes the only opinion that counts, is your own. Not because it will qualify for a Nobel Prize in Literature, but because it is, in all honesty, a love story with a HEA. My sister-in-law recommended this series to me last week and I finished the entire series in 5 days.
I was hooked! However, I had no idea that it was an erotica read, so I was quite surprised, but the storyline already had me pulled in. There was no turning back. Book 2 was my favorite. Christian really proved his feelings for Ana through his words and actions throughout the entire book. Many people complain that his change was unrealistic and it ruined the story for them. I, however, am a hopeless romantic and my heart melted as I really fell in love with Christian's character.
I wish we could get to his view of the elevator scene with the famous, "fuck the paperwork" line. The subject lines and signatures made me laugh out loud several times.
I loved seeing that side of Christian. I also know that his controlling side is unhealthy in a relationship, but it kept things interesting and it showed his true feelings about Ana. When Ana defied him from work or wherever, I always hoped that Christian would just show up as he did pretty much every time. I see the sweet element of his need to control Ana while also understanding that it's not healthy for either party.
Overall, this is a highly addicting series- a grown-up version of Twilight, but with a much more realistic plot. I love that Christian and Ana were based from Edward and Bella. James didn't make it too obvious IMO. It is just easy to see the resemblance in the form of their unexplainable, unending pull to each other. And who doesn't want a happy ending like this series offers?
High-five, giirrrrrl! I missed. You'll probably want to ice that. I am so glad I ran into you! What a coincidence! Three hours? Yeah, I was just wondering if you received the six or seventeen audition tapes I sent over to all three of your houses? Because he and I? YOU just that about that. I left all of my contact info with your secretary AND your neighbors. And also your Federal Express man. But try not to call before 11 a. I really like my beauty sleep.
So, this is what all the fuss was about. Is it me or do they both sound English? Ditto with the Subconscious capital S.
And to those two, add every single instance she bites her frigging lower lip. A lot. Eek, period sex. Why is it the same tune over and over? Can anyone get this Inner Goddess to shut up? Every other word I've considered tried to type's got a double meaning now. Oh, who am I kidding? Scratch that. It actually is terrible with all those complaints thrown against being valid and true BUT I went in eyes open to said faults.
So should I really be disappointed over how it fulfilled my not quite high expectations? Should I? Scary and alluring. Heck, I stuck around! I went into this knowing a good deal of what was going to take place still though, period sex? But still, how fucked up could be?
Even with it's girl who's too much like a doormat; even with the creepy stalker controlling male lead. Maybe because there's this addictive quality to it.
That despite the cheesy dialogue, the unusually detestable characters in this, well, maybe just maybe I'm missing something that others have already caught on to. Serious question here. No, really. Dear me! His subs look alike? How much more fucked up can you get, Fifty? Be gone, Inner Goddess! Dance the night away on your own with all your arabesques and flipping and turning.
Why do I do this to myself? Despite all the sex, or maybe because of all the sex, things have gotten monotonously boring. Yes, the sex remains predictable. See item 6 for Book 1 Book Three 1.
I tried. Oh wow! Also, characters mostly put their lips in a hard line and murmur a lot. Ana and Christian fight, make up, have kinky sex. This goes on, round and round and round. And for about fifty pages no pun intended , there's an actual story line.
I'm really ticked off I wasted 2 weeks reading this crap. And yet to some extent I couldn't put the books down. It brought out the same teenaged, raw, carnal emotions I felt with the Twighlight series, but with a ton of dirty sex and worse writing. The sex scenes are probably the best part of her writing However, they became too long and repetitive for my short attention span and I ended up skipping through most of them in the third book to simply finish.
I gave the trilogy 3 stars because it was intriguing enough to read all three books, but conversely I'm also appalled that I spent the time to read them all I think it really only deserves 2 stars. And did anyone notice she used bigger words in the third book?
I think she found a thesaurus. Update: I kept looking at my original 3 star rating and thinking "that's too many! Erotic love story I do not think I would go that far. I am a prude and do not share my bedroom things,etc This book had an underlying story of two people learning to be a couple and not be independent. Each brought their own baggage. He a past of a terrible early childhood, being adopted by a loving family, him being seduced at a young age, and then became a dominant sex gamer.
She comes in with her naive, inexperience and never really having to comply to another. She herself played 2nd string to her mother and lived her life for herself!
They both end up learning about themselves through each other and making it work! If you do not want to read the erotic parts you can skip over them and still enjoy the story I read the trilogy in 5 days.
It had the love story and all we love to read but it is x-rated all the same! I hadn't heard of these until recently when they were mentioned to me by a number of different people within the space of a couple of days. Naturally I was intrigued and upon reading reviews was led to believe they were pure filth. Which, don't be disheartened if that's what you're looking for, they're naughty. But there is so much more.
These are not to be dismissed as "women's porn" as I've seen happen. There is a lot more to the plot and to the characters. They are brilliantly written that you get so involved and empathise with each of the main characters amazingly well! Given the gist of the novels from other people I should have hated Christian Grey but by mid book 1 I loved him as much as Anastasia did!
All 3 were a marvellous, cannot-put-it-down, who-cares-if-I'm-late-for-work-this-is-more-important kind of read! Now I'm just sad I've run out Highly recommended and to be fair I'd like to see a man read that without being effected at all.
Consider it a challenge. It's hot. I loved them :. I want to preface this review by confessing that I am a literary masochist.
If I begin reading a series, no matter how bad it is, I have to finish it, to satisfy my curiosity about the ending, about the author's ability to improve her writing, and about what the fuss is all about. I picked up this book largely out of curiosity anyway, because I'd heard from several people that it's a great read. Imagine my disappointment. James's writing ability is mediocre at best.
From page one, I was annoyed. It was clear to me that James is a novice in the field of writing, which is disappointing from my point of view largely because I aspire to publish writing of my own. It hurts me to know that drivel of this nature was published by anyone, to say nothing of my disdain that it has become such a hugely popular book. I will never understand how or why any writer would choose to delve into the life of a character who was born and raised in an entirely different country, a country which it is perfectly clear that the author knows little about.
Perhaps James has spent some time in the US, perhaps even in the Pacific Northwest where the story takes place. I wonder that she hasn't grasped that here on THIS continent, we don't speak like we're from Australia.
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