| | 50 Shades of GreyPage 3 of 17 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17) | I enjoyed these books, not so much for the sex, but because it really is a love story. The sex actually became boring to me and I started to skip over it, LOL. I guess I'm a freak; this stuff didn't even phase me :P
It was written very poorly which was annoying. The "Oh sh*t/crap" "oh my!" kind of stopped in the second book ~ or else I became immune to it. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 5/22/2012 10:26:31 PM | I've not read these books (nor will I) but I find it interesting (and humorous) to have heard MANY times that they are poorly written.......not just here on POF but also in book reviews.
Bet the author's signature is very WELL written as she signs it on the back of the massive checks she's cashin'!!! :)
Good for her!! | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 5/23/2012 8:37:14 AM |
If these books wake men and women up to the beginning of figuring out their own sexuality and sets them on the path towards awakening their sexual appetites, then good for them.
That's the whole idea......."turning" vanilla GFs into YOU..........devious grin. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 5/30/2012 6:37:56 PM | I have read the first 2 books.....I definitely need to find my own Christian Grey!!
Love the books :-) | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 5/30/2012 7:26:22 PM |
50 Shades = Lonely College Grad meets Rich Tycoon.,
Rich tycoon *spanks* Lonely College Grad while Screaming "YOU.ARE.MINE"!!!!!!
Lonely College Grad likes getting *spanked* but her "inner goddess" does not.
THE END
*stifles yawn*
Agreed! Other than the toys, I couldn't find much difference between 50 shades and your garden-variety bodice-ripper.
He's strong, beautiful, powerful and haunted. She's a delicate virginal beauty, but a feisty wench at times. Gag. Oh, wait. No gags. That was one of her soft limits...
It could've been a really intriguing and hot book. So much could have been done with the power struggle, complex layers...But nah, he just deflowered her creatively as she struggled between her love for him and her own sense of self...Yawn...
There was a movie with Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Fader called The Secretary. That was kind of hot, but that was actually intriguing. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 5/30/2012 8:40:56 PM | | All I know about this trilogy is that my married friends are reading them. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/4/2012 5:33:21 AM | | why dont u just watch a porno, it's quicker. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/4/2012 5:47:54 AM |
why dont u just watch a porno, it's quicker.
Best advice I have ever been given... When something feels good S-L-O-W it down.
Quicker is not always better.
--but there are better novels than the 50 shades of grey series. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/4/2012 8:08:07 AM | | I think that all the people out there reading this series and only taking away the sex aspect of it don't understand the books at all. Yes there is a ton of sex, nothing way too over the top in my opinion. However the whole premise of the books is the relationship of two people who evolve over time and and make compromises and are willing to change their basic wants and desires in order to make each other happy. Even if it means opening their minds to ways they have never considered before. I find them entertaining enough and enjoy the fact that it has everyone talking about alternative lifestyles and ideas they haven't thought of before. I have always taken care of myself without the help of a man but I also do enjoy and man that's not afraid to act like a man and take control in certain situations. I am tired of the wish washy guys out there afraid to be even a tad bit assertive. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/4/2012 1:06:16 PM | I heard that the book is very vannilla
boring sex, bring romance | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/4/2012 1:37:57 PM | | Havent read, but, Im not into romance novels and this sounds like one with just some s&m thrown in. Maybe the women never would do it in real life so its just a fantasy. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/4/2012 1:52:37 PM |
Haven't read, but, Im not into romance novels and this sounds like one with just some s&m thrown in. Maybe the women never would do it in real life so its just a fantasy.
Succinct account, and having read the first one, I'd have to agree.
The S&M stuff was moderately titillating, but not shocking. She did a nice job with the sex stuff, I think. Although I doubt the scenarios are really all that shocking for a really creative person.
However, if you ignore the heaving breasts and spankings, it becomes almost mundane. The "heroine" compromises herself on a pretty deep level, and is surprised that it doesn't sit well with her. Duh. Maybe the relationship between the two takes on more complexity in the later books, but I'd have to take the word of those who read them. It could have been really interesting, but for me, it wasn't. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey [response]
Posted: 6/4/2012 2:17:20 PM | My mother was telling me about this book.
but from reading these posts, I'm becoming angry...
She was low key trying to talk about sex with me?!?!
*picks out casket* | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey [response]
Posted: 6/5/2012 5:19:05 AM | Lol at women that parents were telling them about this book, cringe.
tbh i got bored with the book, i read all 3 within 5days, hoping it would get better.
Also the sex was getting...dull. Very dull, wayy too often, and each non-sex-related drama sequence was over way too quick. It was all very repetative, god knows how many times "your mine" was wrote. It'd make a great drinking game, and it was also terribly written.
But i suppose, if your a new reader of erotica, and want to keep it simple...then maybe these are the books for you..
Does anyone else think that the films are going to be terrible also? I feel as if at least with the book you can create your own images of the characters. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/5/2012 6:53:12 AM | | I read the book in two days, the first one. On th second one. I was hot like fire the whole time I read it. Its a great book and its actually not the only book of that type I have ever read. I think a person can have a normal sexual relationship after reading it. Hopefully your future partner would be willing to do some Christian Grey activities. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/5/2012 6:57:31 AM | | It isnt written that well, but i do like the story MetalVixxn. I am used to books like this and they are well written. I dont like the fact that the characters are so young. I would have preferred a guy in his 40s to early 50s and the woman to be around my age maybe a little younger. I am 39. I changed the characters a bit. I cant stand it when Anastasia kept saying " oh please" when they were in the act. Got on my nerves. I liked Christian's character alot. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/5/2012 7:17:39 AM | | Oh Please and You Are Mine! lmao...I am almost done the second book. I love to read and this one truly is a struggle for me. Boring as hell and a good waste of money! :( | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/5/2012 9:45:35 PM | | NO! I need a christian grey as well.... He sounds so damn hot. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/5/2012 10:31:03 PM |
NO! I need a christian grey as well.... He sounds so damn hot.
I haven't read a independent review that had anything good to say about the books.
Here is just one of the reviews.
http://www.escapeintolife.com/book-reviews/50-shades-of-grey-book-review/
A couple of years ago I was told my picker was broken. At the time I didn't even know I had a picker. I have since found said picker and been figuring it out.
Reading threads like this make me glad I found my picker and learned its use.
An occasional diversion to a fantasy is okay, to actually want a 27 year old billionaire to take you to his dungeon and spank you instead of wanting a real man......Well lets just say that my picker pegs to the "run like hell" side of the gauge. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/6/2012 5:37:45 AM | | I've heard so many negative things about the writing and how mild this is that I think I'll pass. Like others have mentioned I"m a fan of the Beauty trilogy, also 9 1/2 Weeks and the movie the Secretary. Oh, and the Story of O. The interesting thing about this series is that it's getting vanilla women to talk about their suppressed submissive fantasies and maybe some of them will feel bold enough to try acting them out - which is a good thing. Even just in terms of foreplay and seduction, D/s is as hot as it gets, imho. | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/6/2012 5:53:06 AM | "An occasional diversion to a fantasy is okay, to actually want a 27 year old billionaire to take you to his dungeon and spank you instead of wanting a real man......Well lets just say that my picker pegs to the "run like hell" side of the gauge. " (i'm not sure how to quote)
Exactly, i don't think the people that are saying that have understood this book. Why would anyone want to go after a highly damanged man that admits he wants to "beat the shit out of you".
And all that this book promotes is leave the nice normal guys alone and go after the damaged bad boys that will mess up your life then you can run of complain and play victim . | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/6/2012 8:43:39 PM |
"An occasional diversion to a fantasy is okay, to actually want a 27 year old billionaire to take you to his dungeon and spank you instead of wanting a real man......Well lets just say that my picker pegs to the "run like hell" side of the gauge. " (i'm not sure how to quote)
Exactly, i don't think the people that are saying that have understood this book. Why would anyone want to go after a highly damanged man that admits he wants to "beat the shit out of you".
And all that this book promotes is leave the nice normal guys alone and go after the damaged bad boys that will mess up your life then you can run of complain and play victim .
Actually, these books blame Christian Grey's upbringing (or lack thereof) for his kink. That is extremely misleading, because upbringing has nothing to do with kink. Just like a person's being gay or bisexual, being kinky is in the wiring. A person may have had the stereotypical idyllic childhood or may have come from a perfectly vanilla, 2.3 children, nuclear-family, white-picket-fence suburban Stepford life, and still be kinkier than a Slinky. There's nothing wrong with that.
I dislike these books because (a) the writing is execrable, (b) the author knows jack shit about BDSM, (c) the girl is an idiot who seems to go along with what her man wants to do for the wrong reasons, and thinks she will change his natural desires for BDSM, and (d) people take the wrong ideas about BDSM from the books - as did you two.
In the BDSM scene, if a person does not want the shit beat out of them, then the beating doesn't happen. It's not fun for the beater if the beat-ee doesn't enjoy the beating. And yes, there are people who are wired to enjoy it, when it's done right. It's supposed to hurt - but not to harm nor injure. And not everyone who is into kink is also into beatings (impact play). There are many aspects of BDSM; some people enjoy all or most of them, some enjoy only a few specific activities. Some people like it from both the top/Dominant and the bottom/submissive points of view.
If it's not for you, that's fine. But that doesn't make the kinky people "damaged", "victims" or "bad". | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/6/2012 10:00:27 PM | | never read the book, but have heard about it a lot, and from reading the posts in here, it seems there is some bondage involved. On the topic of being tied up, my mind goes back to the movie "Basic Instinct" so guys make sure there are no ice picks nearby when you allow yourself to be tied up. LOL | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/7/2012 1:59:29 AM | | Nobody said people that have had crappy unbringings are bad, nor is kinky, but of someone thinks being beaten is kinky they are.. Odd. Whether they Didn't or not just saying it, anyway I do understand the books they are terribly written but I understood and I just find it very immature and niave to say "I want a man messed up, ****ed up, control freak, possessive freak in like life" | |
|
| 50 Shades of Grey
Posted: 6/7/2012 8:25:10 PM | | Very eloquently stated SSC-SAF. There is so much ignorance about BDSM when in fact a relationship between a Dominant and a submissive can be much healthier than a vanilla traditional marriage. If the books throw that stereotype out there of the damaged guy and demons from a poor unbringing, there's another reason for me to avoid reading them. | |
|
Home
login 
