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mons -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/24/2012 6:11:41 PM)

Yes it can be found on Amazon.com

Many people are gently readinjg them and selling it back, it goes for a good price! nine dollare and so change!

She was smart she wrote something all of the other people did not know about, so it's like watch out
husbands and boyfriends they may want this from you a good spanking , and some other things!

mons



ForgetMeKnots -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/24/2012 10:48:18 PM)

~FR~

It annoyed me.

While I could definitely identify with the main characters awe and over stimulation, the author’s writing style was a wreck and I didn’t LIKE Ana overall.

I felt the characters were stereotypical and one sided, and at the end of the first novel I felt that it wasn’t really worth the reading because of how it ended.

Not sure I’ll pick up the second or third.




fadedlace -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/24/2012 11:23:30 PM)

I read the original pdf's of the fanfiction; fantasy for sure, but some parts were interesting. Glad I didn't pay for it, though. Badly written work, in my view.



UsableSexSlave -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/25/2012 1:15:04 AM)

It's all wrong, misunderstood and needs to be written right, which should be my way. Any other views are of rambling crazy people. Like most posts I think we need to talk about the cost of peas in Canada as it is wrong to charge that amount.



kalikshama -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/25/2012 8:31:13 AM)

quote:

I did not know this was a twilight fan fic, I have not seen anything having to do with twilight in the books. I am sort of confused as to how it can be a twilight fan fic.

See the first pages of this thread, particularly:

quote:

Why buy, when for a little searching on the internet, you can find the original PDF? It's a fanfiction, based on Twilight characters. For the books that Amazon is selling, they've just changed the characters names.

That being said... There were a couple of parts that I really enjoyed, and I can see why your vanilla friends like the series. It's an introductory tale into the world of submission... And above all that, it's a romance.

I'd have been disappointed if I'd paid for these. But since I got them for free, they were well worth the money

Edited to add a link to the pdf... http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=RTHUKGUX&p=1


There's no vampirism (as far as I've read), but the major characters are included. Ana is Bella and Christian is Edward. Instead of at High School, they meet as she graduates college. If you liked Twilight, it's more fun reading it this way.



TNDommeK -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/25/2012 11:29:07 AM)

So I got the book and read half of it so far. It seems to be mainstream, kinda like what vanilla people think kink is.

I should have gotten a WoW card instead. *sighs*



Moonlightmaddnes -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/25/2012 12:06:02 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: ForgetMeKnots

~FR~

It annoyed me.

While I could definitely identify with the main characters awe and over stimulation, the author’s writing style was a wreck and I didn’t LIKE Ana overall.

I felt the characters were stereotypical and one sided, and at the end of the first novel I felt that it wasn’t really worth the reading because of how it ended.

Not sure I’ll pick up the second or third.





Yep I agree with you there. She is annoying me to no end.



Jaquin -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/25/2012 8:19:25 PM)

I've read book 1, and intend to buy and read the other two books. I don't care if people think it's crap or corny or badly written (as if they can define something that is universally looked upon as 'well written'. Good or bad writing falls under the category of subjective) I like them and I find myself giggling a lot reading them.

Do I expect it to be realistic? Fuck no, I'm reading fiction why the hell do I want reality in my fiction? I'm reading fiction to not be in reality.

What are people expecting from this book when they read it? That it's going to give them new ideas to try with their partners? That it will be a step by step instruction manual to introduce vanilla people into the lifestyle?

It's an erotic fiction novel, take it as such and be done with it.

Like with our own plethora of kinks, rules, and expectations in a D/s relationship what works for some doesn't work for others - that doesn't mean that because it doesn't work for you that it's a piece of shit worthy of being bashed to no end.



Winterapple -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/25/2012 11:36:52 PM)


There are quite a few works of literature that
are universally acknowledged as well written.
Personal tastes and interests are subjective but
Shakespeare doesn't cease to be universally
accepted as a genius because there are people
who have no interest in him or bored by him.

There is such a thing as good writing and
bad writing. There are well written books
and badly written books and books that
are somewhere in between.

I'm sure we've all read a badly written
book with pleasure. Most likely one that
was full of the sort of sex that turns us
on. But our pleasure didn't elevate it
to good writing.
I don't think there's been anything in the
various threads about these books about
people not being free to read what they
want to read.

There are things about the books that
people object to other than the bad writing
and lack of realism.

People who love the books have every
right to come online and say so.
People who dislike them have every right
to come online and say so.

There's no shortage of places where the
fangirls can go and squee to their hearts
content. These places are called fan
communities.
This is not a fan community. It's a public
forum made up of people with a variety
of opinions that they are free to express
as long as they don't violate TOS.
No one begrudges you or anyone else
enjoying the books. And there's no reason
people who didn't enjoy them should be
begrudged by those that do.




kalikshama -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/26/2012 8:31:47 AM)

quote:

Do I expect it to be realistic? Fuck no, I'm reading fiction why the hell do I want reality in my fiction? I'm reading fiction to not be in reality.


My concern is not so much reality but if I am able to suspend disbelief. Stephen King creates plots about which I can suspend disbelief, as does Terry Goodkind (for the most part) but not John Norman or Steven Erikson.



Bambi2003 -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/26/2012 9:17:59 AM)

Well, I've just finished reading the e-pub version that whisper676 linked to back on page 1 of this thread - its has totally consumed my free time for the last 3 days, and discovering that it came to a grinding halt partway thru book 2 was a cruel shock - damn I'll have to go buy the books and start all over again but this time with different names lol...

I've not read a lot of BDSM porn so for me this was a real departure from what I usually read. And I loved it. Would willingly trade places with Bella - or Ana even - in a heartbeat... And yes it does remind me of my own stumbling start into the BDSM lifestyle a few short years ago - me knowing nothing and having to be introduced to all sorts of "kinky fuckery" that I'd never heard of before - and which I am still learning about... but for me the descriptions, the yearning, the fear of the unknown, the dawning horror for her that she was actually enjoying being spanked etc, all seemed so close and very personal to me. And hell yeah, I'm shallow - I'd like to be treated like that by my Sir - throwing his money around left right and centre...

Just my 2 cents - your views may (and do) vary. I am no literary critic so can't say whether the book is well written or not, just that I cannot remember the last book I read that absorbed me so strongly. It's made me laugh out loud in places, cry in others, and made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up more than once.



chatterbox24 -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/27/2012 4:50:27 AM)

Well I finally read the last of the trilogy. "50 Shades Freed"
Had to have it, waited for it to come in  but I ended up flipping through it mostly because it was to much more of the same. A bit of a "And they lived happily ever after"
I found the first book awesome, the second book still interesting but the third a bit of a yawn.



kalikshama -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (6/27/2012 7:57:51 AM)

Alas, that is often the case with trilogies.



BalletBob -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (7/6/2012 4:24:05 PM)

Well I just got the book, and haven't had time to read it yet. I hope I have as much fun reading it, as I do doing some of the things I heard, were in the book.

Reading is always FUN (like Bondage and Gags), sub BalletBob



DesFIP -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (7/7/2012 11:05:07 AM)

We were in Barnes & Noble yesterday. The interesting thing is that right next to 50 Shades, they had a whole display of more nonfiction. ONe that was 50 shades of pleasure or some such take off name. And various other nonthreatening intro books on easy kink in the bedroom for beginners. Hopefully some of those who read 50 Shades will go back and buy the how to ones.



MalcolmNathaniel -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (7/11/2012 12:09:30 AM)

I finally read it.

I wouldn't call it Twilight fanfic. There are no vampires or werewolves. There were was no love triangle.* It was just simply a bodice ripper with an overtone of DBSM. A very wrongly applied layer of BDSM.

It was in dire need of editing, and a plot that went somewhere. The characters could have been mixed and matched from just about any dime romance. It was a waste of time.

*Lived with a girl who had twin teenage daughters, a lesbian crashing on her couch and a gay man in the basement. I was forced to watch the first installment of that drek.



TNDommeK -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (7/11/2012 11:55:31 AM)

Malcolm, I swear that should go on the back of the books to describe them. I just finished the second book, it was boring to Me. I hope the last one is good, at least.

I couldn't have critiqued it better Myself.



Moonlightmaddnes -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (7/11/2012 11:58:03 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: MalcolmNathaniel

I finally read it.

I wouldn't call it Twilight fanfic. There are no vampires or werewolves. There were was no love triangle.* It was just simply a bodice ripper with an overtone of DBSM. A very wrongly applied layer of BDSM.

It was in dire need of editing, and a plot that went somewhere. The characters could have been mixed and matched from just about any dime romance. It was a waste of time.

*Lived with a girl who had twin teenage daughters, a lesbian crashing on her couch and a gay man in the basement. I was forced to watch the first installment of that drek.

Right! I have read several books that I had trouble putting down, and actually forced myself to slow down so I could enjoy the book. I keep putting this one down and reading other books, but I paid for the thing I need to get my moneys worth and read it.



JstAnotherSub -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (7/11/2012 12:04:41 PM)

I went out for a bit today and passed the Starship store here in town.

On their sign out front, the now have "50 Shades of Play".

I bet they are selling out of stuff since these books came out!!!



temujin11 -> RE: 50 Shades of Grey (7/11/2012 12:09:19 PM)

I have not read it. I hope this brings more people into the scene. The class stuff deeply offends me. Why can't the dom be a poor guy who dominates a rich girl?



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