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I have two words to sum this gem up: Oh My! Or one word...decadent. That being said - this really is an Adult read--it is not YA unles you mean Young At Heart. On a re-read my actual rating is 4.75stars.
Ana(stacia) Steele interviews attractive billionaire Christian Grey as a favor to her roommate/best friend, Kate a few weeks before their college graduation. Christian's totally unprepared for an Ana in his life and cautiously pursues her. Ana on the other hand is smitten with Christian but is w ...more
Ana(stacia) Steele interviews attractive billionaire Christian Grey as a favor to her roommate/best friend, Kate a few weeks before their college graduation. Christian's totally unprepared for an Ana in his life and cautiously pursues her. Ana on the other hand is smitten with Christian but is w ...more
Only the power of the Twilight fandom would manage to promote such pseudo-intellectual works to the real literary world.
Sep 01, 2014
Jen • Just One More Page
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I tried to give reading this a chance, so that I could be familiar with what everyone is talking about and be able to participate in discussions.
I got about halfway through before Christian started giving me severe flashbacks concerning an abusive ex-boyfriend. I couldn't keep reading without seriously triggering myself into massive panic attacks. It wasn't even from the BDSM aspects. It was from the normal day-to-day interactions.
Yeah, that should tell you something. ...more
Everything I was told about this book was true: it was slow to start, it got me hooked in the end, and...of course...it's filthy. I did find it annoying that the book ended where it did...it felt like a ploy to make more money - similar to the way the last books of the Harry Potter and Twilight series were split into two movies each. I suppose I do understand it from the point of view of length. It would've been difficult to fit all of the book details into singular movies, similar to the way it
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1 star; abandoned.
I fully admit I did not read past page 70. So please keep that in mind if you read my review.
Also, if you loved this book (the series, the movies, whatever) I love that you love it. Many of my friends really enjoyed this series and had a great time reading it, it just didn't jive with me and below are a few reasons why.
First off, I knew this was adapted from a Twilight fan fiction trilogy/series. This didn't bother me. I love fan fiction...some would say obsessed (not Twilig ...more
I fully admit I did not read past page 70. So please keep that in mind if you read my review.
Also, if you loved this book (the series, the movies, whatever) I love that you love it. Many of my friends really enjoyed this series and had a great time reading it, it just didn't jive with me and below are a few reasons why.
First off, I knew this was adapted from a Twilight fan fiction trilogy/series. This didn't bother me. I love fan fiction...some would say obsessed (not Twilig ...more
Zero stars!
What a steaming pile of garbage. I didn't expect much and I actually read the book just to check it out for the local librarian (hooray for speedreading), but it was worse than I expected. Poorly written, ridiculously repetitive, laughably "erotic". I honestly don't think there was a page of the entire (I use the word loosely) novel that didn't have some variation of the phrase "holy cow" (holy crap, holy crow, holy shit, holy fuck, etc.) And the emails, dear lord, it was like reading ...more
What a steaming pile of garbage. I didn't expect much and I actually read the book just to check it out for the local librarian (hooray for speedreading), but it was worse than I expected. Poorly written, ridiculously repetitive, laughably "erotic". I honestly don't think there was a page of the entire (I use the word loosely) novel that didn't have some variation of the phrase "holy cow" (holy crap, holy crow, holy shit, holy fuck, etc.) And the emails, dear lord, it was like reading ...more
I may downgrade this rating later, but for now it gets two stars for literary merit (or lack of) and being so damn annoying, with an additional star for being unintentionally hilarious. Case in point - referring to his penis as a "Christian Grey-flavoured popsicle" SO MUCH LOL.
Edit - downgrading for leaving such a bad taste in my mouth. ...more
Edit - downgrading for leaving such a bad taste in my mouth. ...more
A pesar del tema que trata me parecio bastante bueno y un poco adictivo!
ONLY GAVE 4 STARS AS I AM DETERMIND NOT TO LIKE MR GRAY LOL X
Oct 17, 2012
Beth
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