50 Shades Of Absolute Crap

[Asawi]

Originally Posted by spindlegirl

I've seen sample paragraphs and it looks like it was texted in on a teenager's cell phone.

You lnow, I wouldn't go quite that far, but you do have a point!

[aceflor]

It is indeed very badly written, and the plot is simplistic to say the least. I cannot understand its success, and it just horrified me to read that Hollywood is going to film it. I can just imagine the result... 9 1/2 weeks (which already was not exactly a masterpiece) on steroids.....
Mind you, I read it, because I wanted to know what the buzz is all about. Well, for me it's the equivalent of bad porn, but for women (as in women read, men watch). And no, I won't explain what good porn is

[shanghaichica]

They are awful. I read the first two to see what the hype was all about. As a women I find them quite insulting, nothing wrong with erotica, but there is no need to insult our intelligence with such drivel.

[booklover6]

I've had people tell me they loved the books. I heard the ladies behind the dentist counter talking about them (they didn't name them, I just had intuition). I've seen friends and neighbors on facebook going gaga over them. Ugh. I can think of 5000 other books I'd rather read. When I get done with those and have nothing else to read, maybe then I'll pick up 50 Shades. Also, hell will be frozen over.

There are so many better erotica books to read.

[Catlady]

I haven't read it, have no desire to read it, don't know anyone who's read it. Based on what little I've heard about it, I find it rather disturbing that it's become a best-seller.

[din155]

The way pple have responded to this bok, I thnk it is prime time 4 me to write some of my own unimaginative and crappy fantasies; pple r quite ready 4 it. Yes I can be crappier than these two sentences

[din155]

Originally Posted by MorganM

I was warned and I was told but I got 50 Shades of Grey and all I can say it was THE worst book I have ever read. Seriously....THE WORST. I wanted to put my KT through a window that's how much I hated the book.

Why the hell is it so popular world over? I don't get it? I felt my IQ lowering after the first chapter....

It’s a new business model. Next time the publisher will ask you money for simply not unleashing such a book.

[dreams]

I haven't read this, but know one person that has. I did read sections of the book she had and the writing style about drove me crazy. I kept flipping to other sections to see if it magically transformed. I was not impressed nor intrigued enough to even accept the offer to borrow it from her. She doesn't think it is a good book, but finds that she just keeps reading it - that there must be something to it, right?

To each their own - if readers like it and are excited to read, then that is something. Right? They are reading.

I did do a little look up for information about things I had heard of the origination of the book and found the below pretty quick. Now, I have an idea why comments say it sounds like something by a teenager and makes me feel ... ?? don't know how to phrase it, but I certainly hope people don't think my reading taste includes that as a great piece of literature. As others have said, there has been and is much better erotica out there.


E.L. James and the Case of Fan Fiction - Publishers Weekly

Spoiler:

A spokesperson for Little, Brown, which publishes Stephenie Meyers's Twilight saga, did not specifically address Fifty Shades of Grey, but said that "it is Hachette's policy to proactively monitor and investigate all reports of potential copyright infringements." According to Valerie Hoskins, who is based in the U.K. and represents James for film, Fifty Shades of Grey does not align closely with Twilight; Hoskins noted that in James's series, for example, there are no vampires.

Amanda Hayward, CEO of The Writer's Coffee Shop, the small writers community-turned publisher that released Fifty Shades of Grey, said James's book "bore very little resemblance to Twilight," even though the story began as fan fiction.

The origins of '50 Shades of Grey' go missing - Los Angeles Times

Spoiler:

People who know about "50 Shades of Grey" have probably heard that author E.L. James began the story as post-"Twilight" fan fiction. But now the Internet evidence of its start has been deleted, so its origins have been erased.

That's what the website Galleycat discovered when it went to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine allows anyone to look at websites as they appeared on days past, when the Internet Archive's computer systems took a snapshot of the site.

Galleycat had previously visited the site to look at the history of James' website 50Shades.com, where she began posting writing in earnest after a beginning on Fanfiction.net. It found lots there to demonstrate that James' early writings were meant to be a continuation, or detour, of the characters in Twilight, including images of actors Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. That was in James' online serial "Masters of the Universe," which begat "50 Shades of Grey." Now only Galleycat's screenshots of the site remain online -- the Internet Archive no longer has them.

[plib]

Originally Posted by din155

The way pple have responded to this bok, I thnk it is prime time 4 me to write some of my own unimaginative and crappy fantasies; pple r quite ready 4 it. Yes I can be crappier than these two sentences

Go for it. Let us know when it hits a million.

[rdfry]

My wife tried reading it, she didn't make it through 2 chapters. She told me that it was one of the worst written books she had ever been subjected to.

[spindlegirl]

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[eskimo49]

Like a lot of books, you either like it or hate it. I wouldn't like to contaminate my Kindle with this type of book, so I guess you could say I hate it.

[Blossom]

I read all 3 books. I found it a horribly written fanifc that was written for the author not for the readers. It followed no formula and the male lead was a sociopath with serious mommy issues and the female lead had serious self images problems which kept her in the abusive relationship.

The repetitiveness of the books made me want hit my head against the wall. The formula for the book was fight, have sex and rinse and repeat. No issues are ever resolved and the heroine has a very limited vocabulary. I cringe now when I hear the words "My Inner Goddess"

[xg4bx]

thank god my wife generally isn't into trendy, pop culture emptiness.

[carpetmojo]

The lowest common denominator department would seem to be where this belongs.....

Rubbish which ticks all the low spots will always appeal to some - it seems this hasn't scraped the barrell, it's scoured and sand-blasted it .