50 Shades Of Grey

[Memories Last Forever x]

What are your thoughts of this book?
I read this book because it was all
over the the internet. This book was so
popular so I decided to read it.
But I didn't like the book.
It got boring and I felt like their was no point to the book
I wondered what the big deal was about.
Did you like the book?

 

[vxrs]

Heard about it, didn't read. ; )
Looks boring as hell. .__.

 

[Digital Fiend]

Didn't read it b/c I heard the writing was bad.....  

[StrayKit]

fun story for all you guys, it was apparently originally a fanfiction for, of all things, Twilight and then had the names and such changed....not sure if it's true or not but that's what i keep hearing which is laughable in and of itself.

i haven't read it, considered it just because of the hype but doubtful that i will. i do have two friends that are a couple and do some of the S/M lifestyle with subs and doms and apparently some of the community is pissed at the book because there's a part where the girl uses the safe word and the man ignores it until a second time or something which is something you're not supposed to do since it's called a "safe word" for a reason. while i'm not sure about the book itself, it IS allowing more things to be accepted publically rather than it being hush-hush and something people didn't acknowledge. so that's interesting, and it's letting other books with similar themes come out and be sold publically. one of the girls i'm friends with that does some of that found a book with me, in Fred Meyers of all places people, that was by Anne Rice in i think it was the early ninties that has Sleeping Beauty basically forced into a relationship with the prince with more graphic scenes with a comment about how if someone liked Fifty Shades of Grey, that they should check that book out. she found them at Wal Mart too so the lifestyle that was seen as a taboo of sorts is getting more notice and i suppose it's interesting to see how society has changed enough to allow this sort of thing to be sold in places that aren't just the adult sections of book stores but i don't think i'm reading Fifty Shades anytime soon

....another fun fact, apparently they're wanting to make a movie of this book. anyone wonder what the hell they're going to do or how they're going to rate the thing if they do that?  

[RyuShikyo Yagari]

Isn't my type of book at all... plus I heard the writing is awful. So nope~ I'm never approaching that THING.  

[Onigetoe]

Haven't read it not sure if I will.  

[L o s t -x- A b y s s]

I haven't read it, but one of the guys in my class described it as "Tasteful porn" which sent my teacher into a rant. It was a tad amusing.

 

[The Maharani]

HAH... funny story... um, I read some of it. Before the hype. I mean it was there and I assumed it was vampire fiction romance or whatever so I read it and I thought it was different, decent. Then I get to the word submission, skip around and see a bunch of other stuff about s/m... and collapse in a fit of madness. Then I think about the parts that I read and regret: the main chick pining after, just swooning for this older guy and having awk thoughts. If you're into s/m, cool beans. I just wish I had not read the shades, man.

A friend who read the whole trilogy and liked it told me that Ryan Gosling would be the male lead in the possible movie...  

[Quokka Flocka Flame]

I actually like kinky sex, so I'll pass on the book. The author even admits that it was basically her midlife crisis because she was unsatisfied with her marriage... erm, yeah, I'd rather not some soccer-mom-with-a-boring-sex-life's idea of fun. If I'm going to read smut, I'd prefer it to be good smut.

I read fanfiction from time and there's some amazingly well-written stuff out there; this stuff isn't it. If I'm going to read smut, I'd prefer it to be well-written... you get the idea.

If a partner suggested I read this book, I'd call safeword so quickly it wouldn't even be funny.  

[Cadenza of the Heart]

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Yes StrayKit, it is a Twilight fanfiction, that somehow got published.
Not only does that count against it, but the writing is AWFUL. Simply terrible.
You can find videos all over of celebrities reading it aloud as a joke.
And there's a blog on tumblr called 50shadesofsuck. The owner actually reads through the books, and posts little excerpts from it and comments on it.
It's very amusing, and you get to see just how bad it really is, without having to read the books yourself.

 

[MiracleRayray2]

herd may times it was bad. sad I dont plan on reading it  

[IzarArgi]

I attempted to read it. Attempt being the key word. I made it through half of the first book and thought that it was possibly the worst thing that I had ever read and gave it back to my sister.  

[Tear Shadow]

I couldn't get through the first few pages of it. I just find it so poorly written; the grammar and style of writing disgust me confused  

[-Summer Cherries-]

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...is all that needs to be said about this travesty of a book, really.