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50 shades of Grey?

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    LemonPledgeLemonPledge Posts: 6,277
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    Reading the books right now, God they are awful! The whole book is like a copy&paste job... "My inner godess" "put your hands up" "what will I do with you anna" "god he's beauftiful" "grabbed the foil" "stop biting your lower lip, you know what that does to me" "I want you right now. Take off your dress" but saying that they are sort of addictive. I just don't find them... Erotic or sexy! I don't think they have a lot of chemestry together.

    Christain, atleast, has a much better taste in cars - and isn't a p ussy (that sparkles).

    Also a few more things: does she own her own clothes - why is she always wearing Kates?? He 'slams' into her when she's a virgin - wtf???
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 941
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    I finished the 3rd book this morning at 3am having spent the last 5 days of my life completely absorbed in Christian Grey! So what if it's a poorly written and repetitive but it's completely and utterly addictive. I didn't really want it to end, I wanted to know more but I now can't wait for the the film.
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    Beau_SoirBeau_Soir Posts: 1,811
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    miafi wrote: »
    I finished the 3rd book this morning at 3am having spent the last 5 days of my life completely absorbed in Christian Grey! So what if it's a poorly written and repetitive but it's completely and utterly addictive. I didn't really want it to end, I wanted to know more but I now can't wait for the the film.

    I blame the falling educational standards
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 941
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    Beau_Soir wrote: »
    I blame the falling educational standards

    There is nothing wrong with the standard of education I received! However, I did enjoy Mr Grey!
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 239
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    The whole 'Mr Grey' thing turns my stomach too. No offence to the poster above
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    Beau_SoirBeau_Soir Posts: 1,811
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    miafi wrote: »
    There is nothing wrong with the standard of education I received! However, I did enjoy Mr Grey!

    Evidence to the contrary my dear:D
    Anna Key wrote: »
    The whole 'Mr Grey' thing turns my stomach too. No offence to the poster above
    I know, it's disconcerting to see grown women fawning over a character with clearly serious psychological issues.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,655
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    Anna Key wrote: »
    The whole 'Mr Grey' thing turns my stomach too. No offence to the poster above

    Me too! He's a creepy stalking control freak (who'd ever know this was based on Twilight?!)
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    ViridianaViridiana Posts: 8,017
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    pugamo wrote: »
    This thread has become quite interesting. I wonder why it is ok to ridicule women for reading a book with a few dirty bits in it and call them lonely and sex starved - but click on any thread about porn and call the men watching it lonely and sex starved and there will be a massive outcry about how liking porn is normal and healthy.

    Actually I think you are totally missing the point.Like the other poster said, If a man was reading this it would be called badly written erotica, because the persons that read this are women, and this pure beings do not want to have anything to do with porn, it's called "romance" and tops the charts.
    Women that read this are ridiculed not because they may get off from the gynecological sex scenes between Christian Grey and that despicable female character, they are ridiculed because they believe this book has quality. That Christian Grey is a new kind of romantic hero. When men like porn at least there is no hypocrisy.
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    Beau_SoirBeau_Soir Posts: 1,811
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    Viridiana wrote: »
    Actually I think you are totally missing the point.Like the other poster said, If a man was reading this it would be called badly written erotica, because the persons that read this are women, and this pure beings do not want to have anything to do with porn, it's called "romance" and tops the charts.
    Women that read this are ridiculed not because they may get off from the gynecological sex scenes between Christian Grey and that despicable female character, they are ridiculed because they believe this book has quality. That Christian Grey is a new kind of romantic hero. When men like porn at least there is no hypocrisy.
    The sex scenes are so shite and unintentionally amusing I don't see how it could be acurately labelled as porn.
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    krista bellkrista bell Posts: 19
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    I read this a while ago online when it was called "Master of the Universe" by snowqueen icedragon .... I wouldn't pay to read it again.
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    christina83christina83 Posts: 11,115
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    miafi wrote: »
    I finished the 3rd book this morning at 3am having spent the last 5 days of my life completely absorbed in Christian Grey! So what if it's a poorly written and repetitive but it's completely and utterly addictive. I didn't really want it to end, I wanted to know more but I now can't wait for the the film.

    I totally agree with you, they are addictive. Sigh, Christian Grey, he could tie me up and spank me any day.:D
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    DaisyBumblerootDaisyBumbleroot Posts: 24,763
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    OK, so I joined in to see what the hype was and downloaded this.

    Its the most juvenile piece of erotic literature Ive ever read. Im about halfway through and cant be arsed to finish it.

    Im up to where Ana's mother meets christian and I just want to know
    Is Anas mother Christians Mrs Robinson?
    please feel free to spoil it for me as I will not be reading the rest of it.
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    TH14TH14 Posts: 11,719
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    OK, so I joined in to see what the hype was and downloaded this.

    Its the most juvenile piece of erotic literature Ive ever read. Im about halfway through and cant be arsed to finish it.

    Im up to where Ana's mother meets christian and I just want to know
    Is Anas mother Christians Mrs Robinson?
    please feel free to spoil it for me as I will not be reading the rest of it.

    No...;)
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    DaisyBumblerootDaisyBumbleroot Posts: 24,763
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    TH14 wrote: »
    No...;)

    But you winked... is that a trick!? PM me the truth if you wouldnt mind!?
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    DianaFireDianaFire Posts: 12,711
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    I read this a while ago online when it was called "Master of the Universe" by snowqueen icedragon .... I wouldn't pay to read it again.

    After years of reading fanfic, I find I can often distinguish the potentially interesting story from the pointless one purely on the strength of the writer's login. This one reeks of someone who'd spend days working out the name, looks and nigh-on impossible attractiveness of their Mary Sue, and about five minutes on the plot. :-D
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    Anika HansonAnika Hanson Posts: 15,629
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    TH14 wrote: »
    I'm on the second one now and really enjoying it. It's such a rip off of the twilight books though and if you didn't like the twilight series then I doubt you will enjoy this

    Ohh I might like this then. I've read the twilight series and I enjoyed it. One of my friends is reading it now and I looked at a page just to see what it was like. Was very graphic but if there is a storyline and it's not just sex for the sake of it I might give it a go.
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    Tt88Tt88 Posts: 6,827
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    Im now up to chapter 10. The storyline isnt very good its just coasting through on the sex scenes as such.

    I am getting a bit fed up of the repetition, as i dont know how many more lip bites i can handle!
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    habbyhabby Posts: 10,027
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    My wife hasn't stopped going on about it & has read the first one & has downloaded the other two on her Kindle. I never know. My luck might change :D

    It appears a lot of female members of my family are also reading it as are some women I know on Facebook.None of them seem to have a bad word about it like on here.

    An earlier conversation below from a woman I know on FB & her contacts:-
    "This book i just cant put down can you guess what it is?" ·
    "I bet it's about a certain Mr Gray :-) "
    "I'm reading it as well"
    "i take mr gray to bed every night"
    "I take him to bed, in the bath with me, he's been all over the house .... :-) "
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    Beau_SoirBeau_Soir Posts: 1,811
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    habby wrote: »
    My wife hasn't stopped going on about it & has read the first one & has downloaded the other two on her Kindle. I never know. My luck might change :D

    It appears a lot of female members of my family are also reading it as are some women I know on Facebook.None of them seem to have a bad word about it like on here.

    An earlier conversation below from a woman I know on FB & her contacts:-
    "This book i just cant put down can you guess what it is?" ·
    "I bet it's about a certain Mr Gray :-) "
    "I'm reading it as well"
    "i take mr gray to bed every night"
    "I take him to bed, in the bath with me, he's been all over the house .... :-) "

    That has made me die a bit inside
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 941
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    TH14 wrote: »
    I'm on the second one now and really enjoying it. It's such a rip off of the twilight books though and if you didn't like the twilight series then I doubt you will enjoy this
    Ohh I might like this then. I've read the twilight series and I enjoyed it. One of my friends is reading it now and I looked at a page just to see what it was like. Was very graphic but if there is a storyline and it's not just sex for the sake of it I might give it a go.

    I've never read the twilight books or attempted too but I did enjoy Fifty Shades..perhaps I need to read Twilight now.

    There is a storyline, but I think you have to read all 3 books. If you get to the end of the first book and think I can't bare to read the next 2, try because the second and third books because it completed the story and the second book is better than the 1st and the third better than the second!
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    Blondie XBlondie X Posts: 28,662
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    Beau_Soir wrote: »
    The sex scenes are so shite and unintentionally amusing I don't see how it could be acurately labelled as porn.

    I agree. The sex is so badly written it's actually making me laugh rather than affect me in any other way. I'm 75% of the way through so I'll finish it now but I won't bother with 2 and 3 as, tbh, I couldn't give a crap what happens to any of the poorly written characters and their lives.

    I would say though fairplay to the author for managing to make a p*ss poor book that could have been written by a student as a project become such a massive seller. A definite case of hype over substance imo
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    Beau_Soir wrote: »
    That has made me die a bit inside

    Same here, the adulation on FB for this tripe is mind boggling. Someone even 'checked in' to '50 Shades' with 'Mr Grey'. So many of them are talking about him as if he's real, it just makes me cringe. I'll be so glad when the whole sorry thing is forgotten about and they can get back to watching Jeremy Kyle instead.
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    TheSwordTheSword Posts: 671
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    poppycat wrote: »
    they can get back to watching Jeremy Kyle instead.

    My gf is reading them at the moment, she's engrossed in them, but is it a case of Top Gun / Days of thunder films - quite a poor really, but highly entertaining, it does what it says on the tin, what do you expect from mass market entertainment?

    Oh no, not Jeremy Kyle, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.:D
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