50 Shades of Grey

       Summary:

Anastasia Steele is a literature student, has volunteer to interview entrepreneur Christian Grey, but her roommate got sick and could not attend the interview, Anastasia went to Christian ‘s office instead. When she arrived to the office, she encounters a man who is handsome, brilliant, and intimidating. Ana is startled to realize she has a fallen for Grey, despite his enigmatic reserve, Anastasia finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s beauty, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too but on his own terms only. Grey has singular erotic tastes, and Ana hesitates. Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need of being in intimate control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark erotic desires.

     Author: E. L James

     Publisher: Vintage Books; 1 edition (April 3, 2012)

     Edition/Format:  book_printbook : Fiction : English : First Vintage Books edition View all editions and formats

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    My impression of the book:

I have never read a book with so much detail and such an amazing structure, is the type of book that I love and enjoy reading it also keep me on my toes and on the egad of wanting more. Is just a crazy love story and the way she tells the story with such a passion it makes me feel like I’m in the same room of the writer and is like the more I read the more I want to know what going to happen. And the ending is like mind-blowing and you can say why the author did this, but you will want to read the next series.

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Did a teenager write this???

By meymoon TOP 50 REVIEWER on April 15, 2012

Format: Paperback Verified Purchase

I really don't like writing bad reviews. I admire people who have the courage to put pen to paper and expose themselves to the whole world, especially those writing erotica. Having just finished this book, however, I feel compelled to write a review.About half way through the book, I looked up the author to see if she was a teenager. I really did because the characters are out of a 16 year old's fantasy. The main male character is a billionaire (not a millionaire but a billionaire) who speaks fluent French, is basically a concert level pianist, is a fully trained pilot, is athletic, drop dead gorgeous, tall, built perfectly with an enormous penis, and the best lover on the planet. In addition, he's not only self made but is using his money to combat world hunger. Oh yeah, and all of this at the ripe old age of 26! And on top of that, he's never working. Every second is spent having sex or texting and emailing the female character. His billions seem to have just come about by magic. It seriously feels like 2 teenage girls got together and decided to create their "dream man" and came up with Christian Grey.
Then come the sex scenes. The first one is tolerable but as she goes on, they become so unbelievable that it becomes more laughable than erotic. She orgasms at the drop of a hat. He says her name and she orgasms. He simply touches her and she orgasms. It seems that she's climaxing on every page.Then there's the writing. If you take out the parts where the female character is blushing or chewing her lips, the book will be down to about 50 pages. Almost on every single page, there is a whole section devoted to her blushing, chewing her lips or wondering "Jeez" about something or another. Then there's the use of "shades of".Read more ›

By DS from LA on March 25, 2012

Format: Kindle Edition

I enjoy erotica and heard so much about this book that I had to give it a shot, but I'm five chapters in and just can't take it anymore. This has to be the most appallingly atrocious writing I've ever seen in a major release. The pseudonymous British author sets the action (such as it is) in Washington State... for no reason than that her knowledge of America apparently consists of what she read in "Twilight"... but the entire first-person narrative is filled with Britishisms. How many American college students do you know who talk about "prams," "ringing" someone on the phone, or choosing a "smart rucksack" to take "on holiday"? And the author's geography sounds like she put together a jigsaw puzzle of the Pacific Northwest while drunk and ended up with several pieces in the wrong place.
And oh, the repetition...and the repetition...and the repetition. I'm convinced the author has a computer macro that she hits to insert one of her limited repertoire of facial expressions whenever she needs one. According to my Kindle search function, characters roll their eyes 41 times, Ana bites her lip 35 times, Christian's lips "quirk up" 16 times, Christian "cocks his head to one side" 17 times, characters "purse" their lips 15 times, and characters raise their eyebrows a whopping 50 times. Add to that 80 references to Ana's anthropomorphic "subconscious" (which also rolls its eyes and purses its lips, by the way), 58 references to Ana's "inner goddess," and 92 repetitions of Ana saying some form of "oh crap" (which, depending on the severity of the circumstances, can be intensified to "holy crap," "double crap," or the ultimate "triple crap"). And this is only part one of a trilogy...