Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1) in Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge

Mar 02, 2018 Beth F rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary-romance, 2018, src-spring-2018, aty18

Yeah. Get it.

I tried to read this a few years ago and couldn’t get into it—solid DNF. The timing must have been off because I’ve just now managed to inhale the book and can feel the slow burn of obsession creeping into the part of my brain that thinks about book characters like they are real people.

I’m like a moth to flame where wildly popular books are concerned, and given my penchant for smutty-smut, my eventual reading of this book in its entirety was somewhat of a foregone conclusion, alth ...more

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Aug 15, 2012 Melissa rated it really liked it

So sue me -- I really did love it. All I had read had talked about how terrible the writing is but I (obviously) didn't find it to be so terrible. Sure, there were certain repeated elements that got tiresome (Ana biting her lip, her "inner goddess," his pants hanging off his hips just so) but the sex was hot, I enjoyed being a voyeur in a world I'm not familiar with, and I thought the love story was believable. Taking a breather, but Fifty Shades Darker is definitely on my list. ...more

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Aug 10, 2012 Meg rated it really liked it

This book was passed to me because I have been making so much fun of it...and one needs to know what they are making fun of. :) Four stars??? Before you start shaking your head---know that I was so surprised at how much better the book was than the reviews I read...that I believed the book deserved more stars.
1) I am sex positive. I have little issues talking about sex----and hearing about different fetishes/styles....etc.
2) I listen to Dan Savage's podcast "Savage Love".....so I am not a 60s ...more

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May 07, 2012 Gabrielle S rated it did not like it

Shelves: 2012, free-ebooks

Yeah I hated this and read it out of curiosity and then when I started it I had to finish it. I guess it has to have a star because no stars is apparently not an option. The sex scenes were dull and there was no character development. Anastasia Steele is an unlikable and unrealistic heroine. Sebastian Grey is a controlling jerk.

I would highly recommend not paying money for this.

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May 28, 2012 Amy rated it it was ok

Shelves: romance

Alright, I'm jumped on the band wagon & read this - especially because all my goodreads friends read it and gave it great reviews. ;) What I came away with: Sex begins on page 90ish. Then afterward, almost every 10 pages. Waaay too much for me. If I read one more comment about biting ones lip, I'll barf. The author at one point comments about lingerie from Agent Provocateur in Washington. If my memory serves me correctly this is a British brand not located in the USA (could be wrong but I'm gett ...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Erin rated it really liked it

Great trilogy...like Twilight for adults (minus the vampires). Couldn't put them down and have since recommended them to a bunch of friends, all who have enjoyed as much as I did.
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Jul 04, 2012 Dana rated it liked it

Horribly written, yet oddly addicting. Not for public reading - you will end up blushing in a good or bad way.

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Mar 04, 2013 Meredith rated it it was amazing

Shelves: e-l-james, fifty-shades

I found the book to be very good. The build up of the action was just slow enough to be tantalizing. I read through the pages very quickly sometimes 100 pages in a sitting. As I came closer to finishing the book, it got slower and hard to get through. I had accidentally looked at the end when I was looking to see how many chapters there were. Needless to say, I was disappointed by the ending. I realized it was only the first book, so I'm willing to give the series another try. In a few weeks I'l ...more

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Apr 05, 2012 Kelly rated it liked it

I'm not quite sure what the ruckus is about. The sex isn't as big a deal as everyone is making it, and the story is okay. Likeable characters, so I give it that. The writing is HORRIBLE. "Mutter" is used in place of a simple "said" way too often. And then within all the bad writing, the author throws in a five star SAT word to try to make up for all the other flaws. I'm willing to read the rest of the trilogy, but eh, I still don't know how it became such a bestseller. ...more

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