Fifty Shades Darker

[ceinwyn81]

I know A million people have already ranted about just how terrible the Fifty Shades series are. I just finished the second book and I really have to rage. I honestly read it for sport kind of. I knew it was going to be awful. I was treating it like that kind of bad B movie thats so awful it's hilarious. Oh god no.

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[alienfish]

I like that review, too. I went and read the books because my neighbor bought them. This way I would actually know what I was talking about if I commented. One thing I noticed was that half of the complaints about the story were about things that didn't actually happen. Of course, the books are badly written... the author has no interest in her female character, so we're never given a reason why a hot young woman, surrounded by people who seem to have perfectly normal sex drives, would never even have masturbated and be so convinced she's a plain girl. Not to mention her inexplicable ability to suck a man off on her first try without gagging at all.

I'm sure there are people who can do that. However, if the author wanted to prove that her female character mattered to her, there might have been a backstory about that third husband of Ana's mother, molesting Ana and traumatizing her.

[gabbygrl]

So Grey's magical penis can fix her trauma??? No thank you.

[alienfish]

*grin* Isn't that always the cure for all a woman's troubles in romance books? Well, and the man's. Don't forget that Disney's answer to a teen wanting to play and have adventures is to get her married off as soon as possible. "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" What happened to their Little Mermaid? How about Pocahontas? It's not like Twilight exists in a vacuum.

[youjik33]

...what? Disney didn't create The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas didn't end up with the guy she loved.

[alienfish]

Disney's Little Mermaid married her prince, as opposed to the one who lost her prince to a mortal woman and chose to become sea foam rather than kill him. Disney's Pocahontas would have ended up with the first guy, except for the wee fact that she's a real person with a real history, so they paralleled it, and she realizes that whazzisname is a flighty git and falls in love with and marries the other guy.

[crimes]

One thing I noticed was that half of the complaints about the story were about things that didn't actually happen.

Oh my god, thank you.