Fifty Shades of Grey question

It was recommended by one of my colleague as an interesting read and hence i picked it for a train journey and then couldn't keep it down until i read all three books. And missed the book later. It definitely has a story with everything else.

I READ IT BECAUSE OF THE COVER OF THE BOOK ATTRACTED ME MOST IMPORTANTLY THE WORD GREY EVERY MAN ON THE ON THE TOP HAS A HISTORY ..A DARK ONE .. WANTED TO EXPLORE THAT AND OBVIOUSLY SECONDLY THE HYPE ! DESPITE OF THE FACT THAT THE THEME OF THE TRILOGY HAD BEEN BSDM KINDA RELATIONSHIP I ENJOYED THE GROWTH OF CHRISTIAN GREY ( MY NOW FAV FICTIONAL CHARACTER) AND ANASTASIA STEELE AS THEY GREW IN THE STORY .... EL JAMES DRAGGED ME TO A WORLD I REFUSED TO STEP OUT N DER WAS NO LATERS ....THE STORY WAS RAW AND ABSORBING !

A friend recommended it to me because she wanted to have someone to fangirl with and so I read the first book and couldn't understand. So once I reached the end of the first book, I didn't thought I was going to continue. Until many people started to tell me to continue on and plus that ending of the first one, I couldn't get it off my mind and also the hype out there was crazy so I picked up the second book. Finally something interesting is happening but all that sex scenes are unnecessary for me. Overall I picked up the books because of recommendations, hypes and my own curiosity.

I read it cuz I heard all the hype about it. I found the BDSM in it "vanilla" & basic. I was envisioning much more than what was done, considering what he lived. I'd have liked a little more delving into his previous life before the books, but that's just me. I like backstory.

I read the books first because I heard about them on TV and I was curious to see why these books were so popular and there were other books like that before.
Then when I started reading the first book, I was very interested in the story. of course it's not great writing but it's entertaining and very easy to read when you're studying eighteenth century novels for a class.

A friend let me borrow the books. I mean I followed the hype and knew about it pop culturally but I never really had a "want" to read the series. When I found out one of my best friends read them, I got curious, she let me borrow them, and I read them.
I was pleasantly surprised that I had enjoyed most of the series (I went in not planning to like it). The first was ok, the second was a lot better (I actually read that one in almost 24 hours, very distracting from school work), and the third one was almost not necessary, to me anyway.

I was curious to see if the books could live up to all the hype and enjoyed the fact that there was more of a story than was expected to be found in this series.

The hype... first time trying, I even didn't finish book 1, perhaps BDSM is never my thing ... but I give it second chance, and glad that I did... because as I progressed to book 2 and 3 I found that BDSM was not really the main issue... but it's about love story of Christian and Anna...

i had like 8 friend from work and they all start to read at the same time and i was like "i dont want to read something about a man treating like shit to a woman" and then, i got to friend from school who where reading to so..o got it on my cosin kindle and she borrow me and ta daaa..well my bad to think that in the first place haha

1- To know why most people are crazy about it. Thank goodness I'm one of the minority who didn't like it. Curiosity can be killer sometimes.
2- Because of the movie trailer.

I read FSOG bcoz my classmate forced me to do so..i actually don't want to read the book bcoz i heard that it's a very vulgar and erotic book...i have the book but i just ignore for months then one day, i got bored and found the book in my bookshelf and tried reading it. after the interview part i was totally into it and never put it down anymore,=. i read FSOG from 7 am to 3-4 pm. i never had the chance to do anything that day, i never even ate.. LOL.. the next day, i read the second book and then the third and now, whenever i have spare time and don't have a new book to read, i'll read FSOG again xD

My mother-in-law asked me if I am also crazy about this book and I was surprised that I didn't know it! So, I read just to see what it was about :-) I liked the first book of the trilogy...the second and the third were not so good in my opinion...And I like the first one because of the seduction game and how intense it was! I liked the characters and the story...! The sex scenes were nice but they weren't the point of the book!

first ,,I wanted to check it out coz of all the hype it gathered....then from the second page of the first page i was hooked because of the character anastasia. She is so amusing,,i totally love her character. For me , the BDSM sex was just a part of the novel. Frankly, i don't read romance novel much,but i think it is my first romantic novel that i am so hooked into.I am now reading the second book of the series which is the same as first one and i am liking it very much.

I wanted to see for myself what everyone was talking about.

A friend of mine was reading fifty shades darker and started laughing when Anna said she wanted to get her hair done somewhere he hadn't fucked the employees or the clients. So I was curious and asked him to see what he was reading and when I read that section I got hooked and began reading it lol

I picked up the first book of the trilogy in order to be able to dissect it intelligently and credibly, for a number of reasons I won't go into here, on my personal blog. I checked it out of the local library so I wouldn't have to own a copy of any of them, and the first one was so dreadful (in more than one sense) that I couldn't bring myself to pick up either of the others.

I got interested when my classmate was keep on telling me that the one who will play Christian Grey in the movie is ugly. I was thinking "WHAT THE HELL IS FIFTY SHADES OF GREY?". Then I search for it on the net with the help of Google and Wikipedia. Got interested because of its BDSM thing, curiousity kills the cat like Grey said. I also checked the so-called trailer and meet Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey, he was really really HOT. Then I immediately avail the ebook of it and read. After few weeks, I was Greysessed!

had to know what the hype was all about. my neighbor had a copy and recommended it to me. what a boringggggg bookkkkkkkk .. yawn.

All my mothers friends were reading it and she kept asking if I'd read it I hadn't even heard of it, so she read it was telling me that she couldn't believe the things he was doing to her (Christian to Ana) so I got curious and convinced my neighbour to read it at the same time as me and was surprised because I didn't think it was that bad, I read all three books in 3 days over a holiday weekend and enjoyed them. I have read them again since and can just as easily skip the sex scenes because the story is still interesting.

I read it purely due to all the hype surrounding it. Although i did read all 3 I have to say it was not very well written. I skipped most the sex as it had not much to do with the story. Atleast now though when people speak of this 50shades thing I know what they talking about. Could say a lot more about the books but all in all the hype was all about nothing.

I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.I gave it a chance. I wish I didn't read it.

I didn't even know what that book was all about before I decided to read it. You know because there's controversy concerning that book and I want to find out why. I did not expect to like it but in the end I did loved that series, not the bdsm thing but their true story-story of loss, misery and hope.

I heard it started life out as Twilight fanfiction and since I read Twilight, I was curious about how they would compare, whether there was a lot of plagarism or not, and how did it get away with it getting printed.

A good friend, knowing I was a new writer at the time, suggested to me that I MUST read the trilogy, as she read it in one weekend and couldn't put it down. I fell for it and started to read the first on. It took exactly 6 pages before "she licked her lips," and "he cocked his head" hit me one too many times. The author might have gotten rich on this trash, but they certainly do not know how to write.

I was embossed and ashamed I had even opened the book!

It was the hype, actually I was buying "Memoirs of a Geisha", and then I saw the add, I did heard about all the fuss around the book, but I thought it was something related to Dorian Gray or making some kind of reference to it-I could not be more mistaken-anyway I bought it because I wanted to know what was all the fuss about, and I had some free time to read...I ended up reading the whole trilogy. XD

Out of sheer curiosity. I mean when a book garners the kind of success that FSoG did who wouldn't want to at least take a look at it!

curious. my senior read it

The hype, and to be honest it was awfully written. It was so embarrassing to read at some points

This might be surprising, but mom shared the book to me. Hahaha.

Actually in my country It wasn't as famous as in yours !
I was actually looking up Emma Watson on google and I saw her linked to a new movie project , I did my research on the movie , I found that it was really famous !!! I thought why not ?
just give a simple try , It has been 3 years since I haven't read a book , so after I started it , I was hooked !!! I slep late , woke early, neglected my studies for a whole week of fifty :::) Can't say I regret any of it , It was refreshing , It made read more books , It also made me improve my english . The first time I read it , it was in French and Icouldn't find the third book in the same language , I had only one option was to try it in English ! And how I found myself on goodreads , and how in 1 year I was Able to read 190 books :::

I read romance and erotica, and it was so popular I decided to read it. BDSM isn't my thing, but I read all three books in a few days, and liked it. But I like The Crossfire series better though!

I first wanted to ready FSOG because of the hype. Then my husband and I read them together for different reasons. He discussed them from a marriage perspective: like how marriages would survive more if, at the beginning what their REAL desires are, what are deal breakers, etc. and actually wrote up the marriage contract before the marriage took place AND stuck with it, when the contract was broken. It was strange to see that so many of my friends said they would love to have a man like CG.

I started reading it while on a break at work, my co-worker was reading it, I have to say it intrigued me, then I went after work and bought it. The other 2 my friend had and she lent them to me. I just had to finish them.

I picked up the book because of the hype. After reading a few chapters, my curiosity was appeased and put the book down, returned to the library and picked up another book that had a better plot, but same concept.

I read it because I was curious if it was a good representation of the bdsm community. I was disappointed, and honestly, I really didn't find it to be all that well written.

Why read it in the first place?

Answer: a) To check out what the fuss was all about, b) the sex scenes.

Interestingly, the best part of the whole book turned out to be the ingenue way the heroine is introduced to the hero - by falling down at the door of his office! I liked that. I thought it was a fresh take on boy-meets-girl merry-go-round. The rest of the book is passable crap (and disgusting when you consider the fact that the hero has a major mommy-issue and he sees his mother in all his physical relationships).

I wanted to see how bad it was for myself. I don't want to be one of those people who complains about books they don't read, so I read it to form my own opinion. I read the others for pretty much the same reason, and also partially for the "so bad it's good" factor. So basically, the whole reason I read the entire trilogy was to make fun of it.

I kept hearing all this craziness with EL James being interviewed. One night Ian Somerholder was on Chelsea Handler talking about how he'd love to play Christian.....too bad he's not. So, I thought I'd give it a try. Let me say I was NOT a reader at the time. I have 4 kids and no time for that "free time". My life abruptly came to a halt. So much for laundry, cleaning, showering, or eating. I think I even called in sick to work to finish the last book.

Overall I'd say that after the fact, it was good; but not FABULOUS. I do thank EL James for this though. Thanks to my addiction to BDSM (not like you think) I now read more than I ever did. It's all smut books full of sex, but hey....who is judging? #NotMe

All I read in the beginning was YA books and at the age of 23 I wanted a little more in my books. Ive never read a book that had sex in it or anything like that. So one day I was on Goodreads and I came across FSOG! the plot of the story wasn't as bad as I thought it was. So i ordered all three books which at the time were only 5 dollars each because the book wasn't as popular yet. So first day of reading I was so bashful at everything that was happening in the book. Ever since then I couldnt put it down to save my life. Love the book and I cant wait for the movie to come to the big screen soon!

The fact that the movie is coming out soon is probably the main reason why I first picked up this book. I wanted to see why everyone was talking about it and why it was so popular.

I read the first two books and even though I liked them, I still don't understand why everyone says it's so good. It has a basic, cliché storyline and it is poorly written, in my opinion. However, I liked the complexity of the protagonists, especially Christian Grey.

I worked at a major bookstore at the time of its release and wanted to be able to chat about it. Boy, was I in for a ride with this trilogy!

The hype, that is about it.

In need of a new read, I picked it up in Tesco, before all the hype. Delved into it on the bus to work and my my I was surprised! Haha!

I enjoyed the first book because it was new and exciting (not my usual type of book), and the second book mainly because I wanted to know what happens. I haven't actually finished reading the last book. I lost interest because it's so repetitive...YAWN.

My friend loaned it to me and was loving it. It was popular at the time so I was curious.

Research for my own writing. I wanted to see why the biggest best selling book in erotica was so successful and hot. And then I read it and wonder why people are raving about it. Saddest part is, as a huge Twilight fan, I realized after I read the entire trilogy, it was first Twilight fan fiction. I feel very awful I did that to Stephenie Meyer and am scared to see where else Ms.James will go because this story was just, I can't even say it. Her husband's YA however is good so I applaud him for that.

My Mom and Aunt were reading it, I just wanted to know what the big deal about this trilogy is all about

I read it after it was discussed on this morning, plus all my friends were discussing it on facebook. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, as many friends loved it and others hated it. Even though I enjoyed reading it, I found that at times it was not written very well.

Heard it was gross so i picked it up to see if it was true.

I personally started reading it because I heard Charlie Hannumm was going to be on it. I was curious because of the hype and I was at the library and it was right in front of me so I said, "why not". It got me to start reading again, which I hadn't done in years. And it got me to start reading the "classics", which I love. All and all I think it was a positive thing. I still enjoy reading it from time to time.

Just to answer your question,when my friend told my teacher that she read that book, my teacher's reaction just surprised me.She said that we were not mature enough to read it and that it's a book for adults and not teens.So, curiosity lead me to discover its contents, the first few chapters were interesting but then I found that it was a mistake reading this before time.Though, I read the first two books and scheduled the third to be read after three years if I'm able to resist the temptation.Then to get rid of the bad effect of that book from my mind I read the Selection series by Kiera Cass.This book really helped me and it's become my favourite series.Now I'm just waiting impatiently for the release of the Queen and the favourite ,the fourth book of the selection series.