What's all the fuss about "50 Shades of Grey"?

[TrogL]

I'm about 1/3 way in.

Pretty boring so far. One-dimensional characters. Ho-hum sex scenes. Zero research (a conversation between a pilot and ATC is complete nonsense). No dom would put up with her recalcitrance even from the start. He's got a room full of toys and a domineering mother? How utterly Freudian.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. lots of bondage sex.

I haven't read it, but that's my impression.

[leftyohiolib]

2. well, i didnt read it so here's my opinion .....

nt

[progressoid]

4. I'm waiting for the movie version.

[loli phabay]

6. rofl. hard to read with full hands.

[bluedigger]

3. First I've heard of it.

Is it new?

[TrogL]

8. You're kidding, right?

Every book store in town has stacks of them at the front entrance. Walmart has them in the remainders bin. I was at a sex trade show and they were giving them away. Last month, every third person on the LRT was reading it. I was waiting for the price to come down and thought I'd pick them up cheap at the used book store (assuming I could find a clean copy) but they were cheaper at the trade show.

[bluedigger]

9. Yup.

I was just busting on you for being a year and a half behind the curve. Sorry.

[loli phabay]

5. its very tame but if your vanilla then its kink

People like to be titilatted.

[TrogL]

7. I'm now over 1/2 way through

He's spanked her once - badly. He knows absolutely nothing about nipple-gasms. She at least has an excuse for being hopeless but suddenly she's an expert in (spoiler). She's dating the richest man in sight and her father is all "that's nice".

[GoneOffShore]

10. Reviews from the bondage/S&M community give it two thumbs down

Unsafe sex practices.

[LynneSin]

11. BSDM for the Twilight Crowd

I kid you not

[Dr. Strange]

12. Don't you mean...

I kid you knot?

[Major Nikon]

13. I'll wait for the movie

[LP2K12]

14. Well...

It may be horribly written and extremely lame. If it encourages couples to experiment and reconnect... good for them I say.

[Greybnk48]

15. I got through the first 100 pages or so.

When the girl (forgot her name) said "Oh, wow!" for about the 20th time I gave up. Boring is right.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. exactly. I feel bad because a work friend went out of her way to get me three volumes. She raved

about it so much. Now, I feel like I HAVE to read it all.


It reminds me of a young reader novel - like a teen book (without the sex, of course.). That is the level of writing.


It is also SO absurd and unbelievable that a girl that naive and that inexperienced would not have ran out the door when seeing the "sex/torture" room.

[nolabear]

17. I KNOW, Girlfriend! I was all, like, "Ew" and then I was like, "HHmmmm..."

Seriously, I dragged myself through the first one and wouldn't touch the others with a ten foot pole. I have never been so bored and irritated with a couple in my life. And the sex was bad. And the portions were too small.

[TrogL]

18. 3/4 way through - massive continuity breach

She makes a big point of saying Grey isn't in the kitchen. The next line is him speaking.