50 Shades of Grey

[xmas74]

Borrowed it from the online library after everyone ooh'ed and aww'ed it on facebook. I still haven't made it past chapter 2 and I only have two more days left on checkout.

Darn it but this book is just boring,poorly written, and overall dumb.

If anyone actually finished it and liked it, let me know. I'd love to know if it ever got better.

[Curmudgeoness]

1. I have not read it, but the people who I know

who have read it only talk about how steamy it is....and how they have to stop occasionally just to cool off. No one has mentioned it as a great novel.

So....you didn't find it hot and bothering?

[xmas74]

2. I didn't even make it that far.

The first few chapters were awful. It's written for the same adult women who are really into Twilight.


Now that I think of it, all the adults that were into Twilight are the ones who are raving about how good this is.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Well, there you go. Mystery solved. nt

[Goblinmonger]

4. It was originally written as Twilight fan fiction.

She changed the names and a couple plot elements and VIOLA new mommy-porn novel.

[xmas74]

5. That's probably why I couldn't get all that far.

I hated Twilight.

[Chemisse]

6. My husband tried to read it but couldn't get far

And he usually tries to persevere with books.

He said the writing was just horrible. He couldn't understand why there is such hoopla about it.

[xmas74]

7. Same here.

It was absolutely awful.

I think my time expires on it today. I checked it out as an EReader through my library. It's awful.

[one_voice]

8. I read all three books...

I'm thoroughly embarrassed to admit that I did. I usually read sitting by the pool or before I went to sleep (helped me sleep). It was so far off what I normally read but my daughter hounded me until I agreed to read them. Once I got half way through the first book, it was like watching a bad movie, it sucked but you wanted to know how it ended.

I didn't think they were horrible, I think if you were looking for something mind numbingly stupid or light reading it fit the bill. Something you read while you're praying for sleep, doctor's office, mani/peids, at the beach/poolside, it's quick and definitely not deep. I didn't freak out over the sex, honestly I didn't think it was that bad. I've read worse in some of my supernatural books (my guilty pleasure). I've didn't read the Twilight saga so I can't compare.

I hope that helps.

Feel free to throw tomatoes at me.

[xmas74]

9. No tomatoes

but someone here said something about how it was originally fanfic for Twilight, which explains why I couldn't read it.

I'm no lit snob-I love me some Sookie Stackhouse and I think that modern day vampires should look like Eric Northman. I've also read some of the Laurel Hamilton books-those can get raunchy at times. And I've met Jim Butcher-not romantic supernatural but supernatural mysteries. (He writes Dresden Files and such. At least I was told it was Jim Butcher that I met-I know he lives in the area.)

[one_voice]

10. Sorry...

Wanted to add...it was very predictable. They did have second story in both book 2 and 3 that might have made it more interesting had the writer done more with it. Also had they gone into the male main character's childhood more I think there might have been something interesting there as well. It really was your cheesy wanna be sexy book.

I never got to read the Sookie books but I watch True Blood. I loved Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake's series but she's gone full blown vamp/werewolf porn now. It was so good at first too. I know the Dresden Files, between mom and me we have all the books. I remember the tv show too.

Agree with you about modern day vamps, none of this sparkly stuff.

[xmas74]

11. Loved the tv show-

I said so when I met Jim. He said people say that to him all the time.

Anita Blake did get down and dirty. I haven't read her in some time but used to like them. Merry Gentry was pretty nasty too.

The Sookie books are different from the show. Try them sometime-very quick beach reads. Easy to put one in your purse and read while in a waiting room. Charlaine Harris says there will only be one more book in the series so now's the time to read them before the last one comes out next May.

[seabeyond]

24. have you read the feehan carpathian series or kenyon atlantis series....

love them.

havent read hamilton. but i have found some good supernatural. dodd has a good series. i have been having fun with chapman series.

so many more. what are some of yours you like

moning has a series of five i think, that are all connected like one big book. that was good.

[one_voice]

26. Oh I love talking about authors I read...

I've never read any of the ones you mentioned but I will be looking into them. Supernatural books are by guilty pleasure. I don't mind a romance angle as long as it's second to the main story. I love a lot of action.

Laurell K Hamilton's Anita Blake series was great until Blue Moon then it started getting supernatual porny. But I'm like a crack addict and I still read them hoping she goes back.

Jeaniene frost Cat and Bones series. I enjoy this one, very much too. She has another series she's started that's branched from this one.

L.A. Banks. Vampire Huntress. This one is different, in that it uses a lot of real stuff from different religious beliefs. It's a very good series and the more you read the 'deeper' it gets. It uses historical facts and brings greek mythology into the stories. Not as light as the other books. I loved this series. Very strong women too.

Patricia Briggs. Mercy Thompson series. This one is pretty good too.

Kim Harrison- The Hollows Series. She also has another series.

Karen Chance--multiple series all very good.

Adrian Phoenix-- 1. A Rush of Wings. 2. In The Blood (Makers Song). 3. Beneath the Skin (Makers Song). 4. Etched in Bone (Makers Song)...this one is very interesting. I enjoyed it very much. Angels, demons, FBI, it's all so good. Another one is coming in January. The author has another series, I'm going to try.


Ok, I'll stop now...lol let me know if you try any of these authors and if you like them.

[ohheckyeah]

12. I'm ashamed to admit I read it...

once I start a book I almost always finish but I skimmed the last half of this book and chalked it up to a stupid decision on my part.

I didn't find it hot...I found it sad. Poorly written with a stupid female who believes her love will change the guy who admits he gets off on hurting her. Pain doesn't excite me and I found the whole thing distasteful.

If people are into BDSM, that's their business and I don't care, it just doesn't do anything for me.

[xmas74]

13. That was the feeling I got from the first few chapters.

It seemed like the same old, same old girl wants bad boy and wants to change him.

[ohheckyeah]

14. It was an insult to

women, IMO. This guy took bad boy to a whole new level. Sign a contract giving him the right to do with you whatever he wants? OMG, why would any woman do that shit?

[xmas74]

15. There had better be massive amounts of money involved-

plenty to set up my kid for a lifetime. That's the only way it would ever happen for me.

I suspect I was better off just reading a summary of the book somewhere online.

[mtnester]

16. A Ho-Hum book...and Anne Rice did it a zillion times better. Glad to see my local B&N putting her

Beauty works and Eden book right next to the Shades books.

[xmas74]

17. Even my local Walmart had her Beauty books out on the racks the other day.

It surprised me, considering the section they were in!

[mtnester]

18. That is a surprise!

[xmas74]

19. My daughter was looking around the other day in the YA section,

probably for some cute-vampire-boy-meets-still-living-girl type of book and down the aisle, where the Christian love stories are kept was the entire Beauty trilogy. Each had multiple copies and were on a middle shelf, where they would catch the eye.

I'd say that someone put them in the wrong spot on accident, not knowing what they were about, or someone did it on purpose, thinking it a great joke.

[Mz Pip]

20. They certainly have struck a chord

with people. #1,2,&3 on the best seller list for weeks. maybe they appeal to the "rescuer" in some women. I read, or rather skimmed, the first two. Got them from the library; I certainly wasn't going to pay money for them. The writing is annoyingly bad and the characters are about as unrealistic as they come. THey are very cliched. She's an ordinary young woman who blushes, trips and says, "Holy cow" a lot. He's gorgeous, filthy rich, owns his own company, does good deeds globally, pilots helicopters, plays piano flawlessly and has a really big dick and dark sexual needs. They meet, sparks fly and 3 books of highly discriptive kinky sex unfold.

I checked them out because I heard they were banned somewhere and I always like to support banned books. Then I was just plain curious as to what all the fuss was about. Still don't get their popularity, but there is something there that has made them best sellers and I suppose someone will someday do a PhD dissertation on why.

[Stardust]

21. I know I'm late to the party, but please allow me to opine: That book is the worst piece of drivel

ever written. I finally erased it from my iPad a couple of days ago because I couldn't go any further. I keep hoping it would improve. I detest romance novels and it appeared to be a classic as far as poorly-written literature goes.

[xmas74]

22. I couldn't get anywhere with the book.

I've read bodice busters that were better written and a heck of a lot more enjoyable.

[mimi85]

23. Junk writing!

I was struggling to get through the first book, bought the whole damn trilogy thinking it must be great.

What a piece of crap! I looked again at some of Amazon's reviews and couldn't how so many people raved about it! Someone did post where this was ripped off from.....total Twilight BS from something called Masters of The Universe that was just on the net, not an actual book. I suppose it can be googled...too lazy to bother now. It's in the comments of the first review. All this person did was change names and a few minor details. I'm surprised the publisher got away with it.

Whew, thought it was just me!

[Lex]

25. It seems like the book has turned into a big joke about trashy sex writing.

So yeah, not too good.

[JoySmith]

27. after shades of grey

My favorites lately would have to be Deveraux's "A Knight in Shining Armor" or Emma Rose's His Every Desire.

[Kablooie]

28. It's so hot. It's really hot. It's a hot book.

And a good candidate for burning if you're into that sort of thing.

[mantis49]

29. I was thinking about reading it due to all the hoopla,

and downloaded a sample to my Kindle. Haven't read the sample yet. After reading this thread, I doubt that I'll purchase it.

Thanks everybody!

[xmas74]

30. Don't purchase it.

If you really want to read it look around at your local library. Maybe they'll have a free Kindle download. That's how I read it.

[Mz Pip]

31. Don't waste your money

Get it at the library.

[mainer]

32. I started it last night. Got as far as page 30.

Stupid, stupid heroine who keeps tripping and falling into the hero's arms, and who says "Oh, crap!" on just about every page. I see nothing erotic about it so far, just bad, bad writing.

Harlequin novels are MUCH better written than this.

[xmas74]

33. any cheap bodice ripper

From the dollar store would be better

[Napoleon838]

34. How to write

I'm trying to write a romance about a man who falls in love with a stripper. Does anyone know how to describe a strip tease or how a stripper looks? Any links to examples? Thanks!

[Mz Pip]

35. This may be something

you should research on your own...

[fadedrose]

36. Of course, I never saw it..

but I think there was a movie out years ago called "The Stripper." I remember it because of the sexy music that came out of it, and I think they play the song in strip-parody scenes . . .

I don't know where you'd find a copy of it to watch.

Why don't you write a book about a man driven to find out about strippers? You'd know more about the topic...