50 Shades of...crap!

[lilacwoman]

So in the local charity/thrift shop I got a copy of 50 Shades Freed for 50p/75cents.
OMG! It was hard work.  Too much boring bondage sex spreading over 8-10 pages a time with bits of life in between.
After first sex scene I just skipped them to concentrate on the bit far fetched background story.
I didn't even know ELJames had written sequels to original 50 Shades and I won't be going looking for a copy of that as I rather get the impresion from all the flashbacks in Freed that the original had more sex as the two characters got together.

Yesterday at ladies bowls club meeting I said I'd bought it and it was boring and they all said they had not read it so I said I would take it next week but they all said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

So who has read any of the three Fifty Shades and what was impression?

[melanie maritz]

I haven't read it (yet:D) I don't think I'd mind all the sexual bondage stuff, as long as it's well written because some writers can make an interesting topic sound dull by the way they write and others can make a boring topic sound like the most interesting thing you've ever hears of, just by their writing style.

[justpat]

    I think your topic title sez it all ! I was not impressed at all

[ReaverMarcus]

I haven't read it myself. I heard a lot about it. It's a glorified fanfiction, to be put on the shelves among the Twilight series.

Reaver

[@Diana]

havent read it yet but few of my friends talked about it





but this is a good book imo (if u love cooking just like mwe! lol) , maybe bit better 

[Pitch]

I read a chapter and skimmed some of the sex scenes, and I wasn't impressed. I get that erotica is all about indulging in a fantasy, but it's not my type of fantasy and it was too over-the-top to draw me in.

I did read some of it to the s/o on Skype for ->-bleeped-<-s and giggles. We both started cracking up at the "Red Room of Pain".

[kelly_aus]

I've read the first one.. And I had to force myself to finish it. It was the worst written piece of tripe I've ever had the misfortune to read..

[James :)]

I was going to buy the first one at the bookstore in my local shopping centre, but judging by what everyone else has said about it, I've changed my mind.

[Fox in Socks]

I'm afraid to read it.
Not going to.

[Umiko]

when i read that book, i cant even tell you what it did to me. i rather be sex depraved after reading that crap lol

[HexenPixi]

Ewwie, I could never read that book. Non-consensual torture in order to "change a man for the better," not my cup of tea. I take it for what it is (a work of fiction), but I'm not happy about the content either. 

[MikaylaGC]

Oh well I liked them, maybe I am retarded or naïve and enjoy reading fanfiction 'tripe' I don't know really. I read the whole series. I also have an opinion on the BDSM content of the book judging by the comments so far, I certainly wont be expressing them in this thread.....lol. There are better erotica novels out there though.