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ORIGINAL: chemeli

Erm just to share with you all what i'm thinking of the book so far.

*droolsssssssssssss *

thanks.

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ORIGINAL: myotherself

I've renamed it 50 shades of shite.

Pile of stinking, rancid worm vomit.

Christian Grey needs to be stabbed through the eye with a rusty pencil and Anastasia Steele should be tied to a rock at low tide and left to drown slowly, but thoroughly.

Just my

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Well, i'll know now what to do when i enjoy a book of fiction about bdsm.... keep it to myself or i'll be shredded to tears by the forum of collarme!!!

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ORIGINAL: LillyoftheVally

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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

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If people do not want to hear about the book then here is a crazy idea, go with me on this ok, right when you see a thread called 50 shades of grey how about you don't read it?

I feel the need to come onto every new thread and give a PSA:

Not sure why it was quoted to me though.

Again people read it differently, I was mildly annoyed by the idea that they were all a little messed up, but then Ana wanked the kink as much as anything, she craved it. The book has encouraged people in this country at any rate to talk about BDSM in a new way, not as a dirty secret but a valid fantasy. Sure the book is being mocked from here to sunday, but the practice is not, seriously I think its frigging awesome.

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*SPOILER* at the end of the first book (there are three) she walks out after the Dom character gives her a very hard spanking. On her bottom. With his hand. No paddle, no blood drawn, just a fucking spanking that left her bottom sore. Oh - and she had the option of safewording. Instead she cries and runs away. Maybe I'm really out there, but it didn't get anywhere close to kinky for me.

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ORIGINAL: littlewonder

Maybe in your world but where I am and the women I know who have read the book, do not want to talk about bdsm and there is a negative vibe from them reading the book. Those I know who have read it either said it was really bad writing or they were shocked by the bdsm and saying that the characters were abused and they don't want it anywhere near their libraries or anywhere else because it's too far out there and it's just smut.

Yeah there are a few women I know who found it hot and fun but they're also the same women who get turned on Johnny Depp in the Pirates movies and like to talk about the new Harlequin romance to hit the shelves.

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ORIGINAL: Kana

Hehehe-one of the senior ladies at work just finished reading the trilogy. Now she's going around guessing whether the other employees are deviant or nilla....and she tagged me nilla.
I laughed so hard...

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ORIGINAL: LillyoftheVally

If people do not want to hear about the book then here is a crazy idea, go with me on this ok, right when you see a thread called 50 shades of grey how about you don't read it? I know it is a bit out there I get that but seriously give it a shot yeah?

OP, I finished the last book yesterday morning, I completely see the appeal and it does what it says on the tin. I could rip into its flaws but everyone else has done that. I like to be a rebel, you know go against the grain of popular consensus a bit like 90% of the people on these sites who say how crap it is even though they haven't read them. Its not a shock though really, people hate success more than anything else, the same comments came after the popularity of Twilight and The Da Vinci Code.

The book is a middle aged womans fantasy, hence the plot is fantastical. It was fanfiction written because she loved to write, it was published by a small print on demand company and it took off. Most people can get their work published with companies like that so the idea that these are books that shouldn't be out there is a bit strange, one of the best things about the prolifiration on e-books and the web is that all sorts of books can get into the public domain, we get more choice.

Its a book that taps into a clear female fantasy, the idea of this beautiful, strong and rich man who everyone wants but he goes for the clumsy mousy bookworm, only she captures his heart and makes him change his isolated ways. Seriously its age old and people still love it. This was not a woman writing as the font of all BDSM knowledge, she didn't know it was going to be popular she didn't have a responsibility in that regard, its fiction, a story. Most people read fiction for what it is, and with this one they may well read and then buy some handcuffs once they have done.

About the intensity of Kink I just noticed mentioned above, everyone has different tolerences of kink. It seems as though because it is in a book people suddenly feel they can belittle that. I ask you to remember again, middle aged woman writing HER fantasy. She doesn't claim its a hardcore book with page after page of edgeplay, its a romance which involves some bondage and a little bit of spanking. There are kinky bits, but its about the exploration of her sexuality more than 'right how many fists can we get in her'

It is very easy to attack someone without adding anything of real value to the world, if people do not want to read the book but have time to wander around saying how crap it is, why not use that time, write somethine better, go on I dare you.

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ORIGINAL: chemeli

yeah well.....i've finished the first book and i'm wishing i hadnt started the thread in the first place. The book had started out good enough and was full of promises of good moments to have. annnnnd....not.

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

Can anybody see any earthly reason why it was written as a trilogy in the first place?
It's not like there's three volumes' worth of plot or character development on display, after all.