they wont watch porn, but they’ll read the sh*t out of it!!!!

Can you include an option for, “Yes, under duress, and it was crap”? :P

*Obligatory Father Ted Comment*

Down with that sort of thing!

Bought into the hype, book 1 was acceptable, book 2 was hard going (s’cuse the pun) and book 3, all those emails, comon!!! Painful (oops, another pun). You want properly written horny material, with a roguish wealthy male character you’ll fall in love with? Meet Rupert Campbell Black in Jilly Coopers “Riders”(no pun). And that was written over 20 yrs ago!!!

Honest question, I Have not read it, I don’t plan to, but from what I hear from all the women at work, it’s very poorly written.
So what then is the attraction of it ? Is it just that it makes this type of material more acceptable to read in prudish Ireland ?

I’m just after eating a baguette. What I miss?

I read it…mainly because so many of my friends had read it, and I was curious. You do get kind of caught up in the story, because you do want to see how she (the author) plays it out…I was surprised at how short each book was…but once I got to the end, I was peed off for getting caught up in it. It IS poorly written, and IMO had a poor and unrealistic ending. Take the *porn* out…and you don’t have much of a storyline at all.

In answer to Damien Behan…I don’t think it has anything to do with nationality, it was a bestseller (shockingly so!) in the US and in the UK as well. I think it started out popular as it was loosely based on the Twilight characters (I could be mistaken, but I think this was how it started out) and it just made it easier to purchase. Had it been published the usual route, I can’t say that anyone would have rushed out to buy it.

Geordie Shore in paperback.I dread how us men will have to behave now was just getting over the Sex in the City shite..

have to admit, not a great read l dont know what all the fuss is about

no ,but from ppl i know who did read it they said it was a load of crap ,got better things to be doing with my money

There should be a fourth option – “I’ll only be reading the dirty bits”.

I started reading it and about 50 pages in decided that I had already plenty better to be read in my to be read mountain and as I work for the libraries and it was from there with a huge queue I reckoned that giving it back would be better.

I couldn’t stand the two main characters and I just wanted something to come down and wipe them off the face of the planet and start with better characters.

Honestly Mills & Boon Blaze is more readable. There are other writers who didn’t get as much attention that get me more hot and bothered..

And what’s worse this is Twilight Fanfic with the serial numbers filed off, just about.

@ Tricia – funny you should refer to it as “dirt” – no one else has.

It’s not just about poor grammar, in fact, most people think/talk in poor grammar, so sometimes that can make a book great. There are parts that can cause a smile/giggle sure. But overall the book is poor and the storyline weak. And I am sorry, but the ending just isn’t realistic at all. The sex scenes are repetitive, and in fact by the second book, you can pretty much skip through them.

A good writer makes you want to read every word, understand every nuance, so that even if you skip to the end to see what happens, you still want to go back, and see how the characters get to the end. That is what makes a good novel.

I’m a man, would it be worth reading for me to get some a da tips for da ladies ;) :$ Hubba Hubba ;)

I read it cause everyone was talking about, it’s dire. It’s ok the first book is a best seller but shame on everyone who got the second and third book. Dire…

useless

I got it as a joke birthday present and thought “Oh, why not?” Made it about 50 pages before I gave up out of sheer boredom. The writing is terrible, the characters are appalling, and even the only thing going for it – the “erotic” bits – are cringe-worthy. I’ve got nothing against porn (sorry “erotica”), but that’s just bad.

I’ve come across too much badly written fanfic to be suckered into paying for a trilogy full of badly written fanfic. There’s enough free erotica on the internet – some of it well written, most of it sub FSOG, but good for some personal ann summers sponsored funtime 8-D

Yes I’ve read all 3 and thoroughly enjoyed them:-)))))

fifty shades of shite!!!!!!!

I read Lady Chatterlys Lover in the 1960s, no book could surpass that.
BTW I tried reading 40 shades of Grey, it was flat and uninteresting, seems to be written by an a person who is not wholly comfortable with grammar, syntax and descirptive language. Mediocre at best .

I read the first chapter of the first book but couldn’t push myself to start the second chapter… so so bad…! My cousin in the US was raving about it that’s why I bought it.. Won’t be listening to her again in a hurry!!!!

I bought into the hype, got the first book, I’v read about half of it and just given up its ridiculous!
Im convinced it was written by 13 year old foundation level English student who has spent too much time surfing dodgy sites! Poorly written dosnt even begin to describe it, the same repetitive, unimaginative terms over and over, zero story line and as for Christian Grey, a 20 something year old billionare, who runs this massive corporation but never actually seems to work, plays classical piano, hang-glides, speaks various languages, is drop dead gorgous and hung like a donkey . . . yawn. I did giggle at some of the naughty goings on though, but some of them turned my stomach too like where shes just back from a long run, skips a shower and they get down to it?? Nothing much erotic about soggy socks and smelly runners, and as for the ‘time of the month’ episode … uuggggh

hard to believe that the most poorly written book of all time has become one of the fastest selling!

I have no intention of ever buying and reading that book. I saw extracts online and it sounds badly written, and not in the least erotic to me… That’s what some of my friends that have read it said as well! I’d be laughing all the way through that book, I reckon!
Fair play to the author and her publisher – the PR has certainly paid of for them! The amount of people that rushed to buy that book only to find it somewhat disappointing!

I was interested to see the book sales and amazon sales statistics for the trilogy. Book one has sold millions but part two and three have not neared those sales figures. Read: I’ll try it because everyone’s talking about it. Then , I’m not paying good money for more of that rubbish.

Picked it up in the airport, took the metaphorical blue pencil to the grammatical errors on page one, thought if this is the hook how bad can the rest be and put it back on the pile. Did read Justine when I was fourteen and from all the comments and extracts this is a straight rip off of de Sade. Neither the literacy level nor the sex to my taste I’m afraid

Got through the first chapter and couldn’t read any more . Pure drivel !

Load of drivel.. Will be affording it like the plague… It just shows you that no matter how poorly a book is written as long as it has well marketed, it will sell.

No, and not planning to either. The bits of it I’ve seen on the Net convinced me within about a minute and a half that it’s a depressing waste of perfectly good trees that would have served the human race much better had they been processed into bogroll. An American character from Seattle talking in anglicisms? Seriously? All the clichés of cool there, yet she’s still a virgin at the ripe old age of 21? What? The entire feck knows how many pages of drivel.based on TWILIGHT FANFIC, and bad twilight fanfic to boot? Bitches, please! And don’t even get me started on the thing’s despicable gender policy! That book is wrong more levels than I feel comfortable counting to, and I don’t need to read it to know that!

What does this say about modern women(who are buying this) if Katie Price actually wrote one of her books,can imagine it would be as badly written .

In 2 or 3 yrs if anyone mentions FSOG – nobody will remember. By what I’ve heard about the book that will be no bad thing.

It’s no worse than all those shitty soaps most people insist on watching. Each to their own.

It sounds like absolute pop-culture bilge, like all the most famous popular books. The average person on the street wouldn’t know good literature if it sexually assaulted them.

Load of muck! wouldn’t be caught dead reading it

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Got through three chapters before my brain forced me to stop. Bit like trying to force yourself to watch sex and the city.

50 shades of shite!

Bought the trilogy in easons yesterday.

In fairness I gave it a good go, got about a third of the way through and gave up. Complete and utter tripe. My sister (the non-reader) is on the second book. There’s no accounting for taste…

If you’re sad enough to read this garbage to spice up your sex life then you’re obviously with the wrong partner ! Jeez get a life all you pathetic sex starved bored housewives !!!
But seriously I think the pr machine behind this obviously worked a fooled alot of silly women into Reading it .

I loved all three books. There is a great love story behind all the other stuff. Some of the emails are very funny and certainly got a giggle from me. This guy goes from top exec and control freak to mush because he adores Ana so much. So what if there’s lots of “dirt” in it, you’d swear it was the middle ages the way people are giving out about its content. It’s not the first book ever written with incorrect grammar either, I see that as an excuse to avoid the book for other reasons that people won’t admit. I for one think it’s a great read and will be re-reading the trilogy before 2012 is out!!!

If you wanna read a well written, actually erotic novel with a good story line, ladies, read some of Benoite Groult’s novels, e.g. Salt on our Skin. Now there’s a sexy book ;)

What are you all fussing about? It’s just a book. Get over it. I bought it ‘cos I like buying books, I was curious and I didn’t realise that buying it was making a serious lifetime commitment to its excellence. FFS people it’s only a few euro how tight are you guys?
I also read it. APPALLING editing but it rattles along and it’s over before you know it. I agree with others the sex gets boring after a bit.
The ‘mummy porn’ tag is just the usual sexist crap.
If you want a crime against literature, how about awarding the Booker to that twaddle Sense of an Ending?

An other website is asking will these books cause a baby boom, well they haven’t been on the streets as there is already a baby boom this year and as for reading these book, have not and plan not to. All rubbish to me. Prefer my fantasy with Vamps, weres and Witch.

Are there vampires with teenage issues in it and a mysterious loaner? I assume there must be if so many women are watching it

50 shades of divorce waiting to happen!

Why would I want to fantasise about a man who is not my husband? It sounds like a recipe for disaster in marriage to me!!

Wanna save yourself reading the book? Here’s the audio-version :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA

@ Lilanda. Thanks. I’ll tell him that.

Just when I thought women had come so far…