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I'm going to chalk this up to a moment of insanity. I was bored at work. The audiobook was free through my library. 'Surely it can't be THAT bad', I wondered.
I should have stuck with my 'I will never read this' tack, when it came to this book. I made it to approximately chapter 4.
Note to anyone writing a book: repeating a 'catch phrase' (we'll go with: OH MY as an example here) 80 billion times does not EQUAL CHARACTERIZATION. What it does is drive the reader (listener. also probably the perso ...more
I should have stuck with my 'I will never read this' tack, when it came to this book. I made it to approximately chapter 4.
Note to anyone writing a book: repeating a 'catch phrase' (we'll go with: OH MY as an example here) 80 billion times does not EQUAL CHARACTERIZATION. What it does is drive the reader (listener. also probably the perso ...more

Jul 02, 2012
Stefanie
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Spätestens seit der erste Band der “Shades of Grey”-Reihe auch in Deutschland erschienen ist, wird überall über dieses Buch gesprochen. Man hat das Gefühl, jeder hat es gelesen und jeder hat eine extreme Meinung dazu. Von den einen wird es geliebt, von den anderen verteufelt. Was also ist dran an diesem Buch, das sich besser verkauft als Harry Potter?
Alles beginng ganz harmlos, Anastasia Steele hat gerade ihr Studium beendet und ist in Liebesdingen noch recht unerfahren, als sie den reichen Gesc ...more
Alles beginng ganz harmlos, Anastasia Steele hat gerade ihr Studium beendet und ist in Liebesdingen noch recht unerfahren, als sie den reichen Gesc ...more

Reading this book brought me no joy or curiosity. It was poorly written and I just don't understand the hype. My concern would be a young person would read this book and associate the abusive behavior to romanticism or acceptable dominance from men. 2 stars is being generous on my part. ...more

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Aug 04, 2012
MichelleCH
marked it as not-for-me

Sep 17, 2012
Amro
marked it as to-read

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