Fifty Shades of Grey : the worst book in the history

[alexandral]

Summary: If you are a good virgin, an ultra-rich guy will appear in your life one day. He will spank you and tell you what to do with your life.

Comments

[alcanis_ivennil]

So this is basically Twilight (proudly hating it without reading) meets The Piano Teacher (worst fucking book in my life and the bitch got a Nobel prize, what the hell Academy)?

[alexandral]

It is not like Piano teacher. :D , it is more like your run-of-the-mill romantic novel (with a rich man falling for clumsy herouine) with some quite vanilla BSDM fantasies of the author.

I haven't read "piano teacher" the book but I thought the film had it's merits (Michael Haneke is not 100% my thing, but I can never forget his films lightly).

[thinking_lotus]

I don't understand at all why so many people like 50 Shades of Grey and its sequels. Except that those I know irl (just a few) who are into it generally have unsophisticated taste in fiction/literature and also really, really, really loved Twilight. And apparently have never read any porn before. And I often find these women's likes and dislikes rather puzzling.

Basically, it's a mystery.

[alexandral]

I thought along the same lines - may be someone who has never seen a porn fanfiction in their lives? May be the kind of readers that love romantic fiction ? But usually it is the minority!!! It even seems that Shades of Grey has been sold better than Twilight!!!!!

[nutmeg3]

I'm embarrassed for my industry that such a POS ever got published and has become such a phenom. And I can't wait for the ultra-bad fanfic (though how you can get worse than the source material, I'm not sure), because since she wrote this as fanfic, she'll have to shut up and let people do whatever they want with her characters or else she'll be the most hypocritical hypocrite in the history of hypocrisy. Hee.

[alexandral]

I keep thinking "oh my, if this is such a revelation to everyone, what kind of world are they living in?". Well, the book is admittedly NOT anything new to the majority of people I know, but still, what about all those people I don't know? Puzzled I am, officially puzzled. I guess this example just shows how something totally unworthy can be hyped up and grow. Just a social phenomena this is.

lmao

[ext_1492745]

You simply couldn't have said this better!

[roboticduck]

I'm one of those people who would probably bash 50 Shades without reading a single word-- so it's kinda awesome that you tried to read it?? I am trying to find the silver lining here!!

What really gets to me is that there is legitimately excellent fanfiction out there, yet this is what gets lobbed into the mainstream eye. I love that you said the BDSM was so bad and that the whole book comes across as vanilla, because that means those of us who have read the "good stuff" just have higher standards ;)

[teh_haley]

I'm so happy to find someone who did not appreciate any pages of this shit, because that's exactly its appropriate definition --and I had no doubt at all you would not like it!
I think you made the point exactly:
The herouine is an idiotic gold-digger, the hero is a misogynistic one-dimensional drawing, and there are no other characters.
Which leads us to, WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP BUYING THIS CRAP, even if they know that's exactly what it is? One can be curious, okay, but right now, most people know what it's about and hell, they keep buying it. And loving it. What's so great and romantic about some mysoginist stereotype of a sick relationship? Mehhhhh.