50 Shades of Grey

Hello you guys :)
I hope you have had a great Saturday and therefore a good start to your weekend!

I don't know if any of you have read 50 Shades of Grey or why you read it.
I did read it and I have some thoughts on it that I would like to share.
Firstly I have to admit I only read it because everyone said I should, not because I actually wanted to read it, simply because it is not my kind of book. I'm more of a Lord of the Rings person.

I started reading the first book which I got from the library and got given the second one and read the third whilst being in hospital. 
Although I didn't really like the first one (not for the obvious reasons but I will get to that later) I felt like I had to read the whole thing so I would feel confident to say I don't like them.

First off: I don't see why everyone keeps saying it is so kinky. What I found it to be was vulgar. I mean come on the things Christian says to Anastasia are just rude sometimes.
“I don't make love . . I fuck . . hard - Christian Grey”  
Seriously?  Please, who says something like that? That doesn't sound good and it surely doesn't sound like something I would want a man to say to me. 
Lets be honest here for a minute, because a lot of girls I asked said that they sometimes even felt turned on by it, I don't see how you could be. Really? 
I mean I don't think the sex scenes are particularly bad because of his preferences but because they are just so badly written. 


Nowadays people are very open about their sex life's and preferences whether that is SM or bondage or vanilla sex. So I don't think that people can actually be shocked about what Christian wants from Anastasia at least I wasn't. 
Another thing that I didn't like about this book is the fact that it is so badly written. I genuinely believe that I could like the idea of the book and I don't even think the story itself is bad I just don't like the way it's written.
Story wise I can only say that it was to cheesy at the end but I guess since it was  originally a Twilight Fan Fiction I saw that coming. 
And I would really like to know what other people think about this. Maybe I just don't get the book for whatever reason. Or maybe I need to be enlightened? I don't know.
And another thing I'm quite curious about is: Is there men out there that have read 50 Shades of Grey?

And I would never ever judge someone who is into that kind of stuff simply because it is who they are and as long as they find someone who likes that too I don't see why they shouldn't live that side of themselves. 
So seing that he is into SM wasn't something that shocked me at all, I just thought I would go with it and see were it takes me. 
The thing that did shock me though was that the author obviously doesn't actually know anything about SM. She has no idea what she is writing about and the fact that she makes it look like people who had a terrible childhood like SM is just plain wrong. 
A good friend of mine had an amazing upbringing and his parents are such lovely people and he likes a bit of SM here and there, nothing wrong with that. So I just think the way she describes it, throws a very bad light on people who get pleasure from smacking their partners bottom and all those kind of things. 

When people told me I had to read this book because it was so kinky and stuff I was like: Ok I'll give it a go, it must be good if so many people read it. 
And I was so disappointed by the time I had finished the first book. I couldn't believe that so many people read it and thought it was good. 
I have to say though that the language is very picturesque which is probably why some people get turned on by it. But I don't really knowm it's a bit disturbing to me.  I simply can't get off on a book (maybe something is wrong with me :D)
And I don't want to offend anyone here but I thought the writing style was very low-brow. And some of the things that were displayed were just vile because they were badly described. 

I do believe though that the author really had a good story on her hands she just didn't make the best of it. Sadly to be honest. 
If any of you feel very creative and want to take this challenge: Rewrite it please and I will buy a copy for sure!! :)

For me it just felt like a porn gone wrong.  



x
J.



“I am Fifty Shades of fucked up, Anastasia - Christian Grey” 
Yeah right :)