[lily.]

... Have you read any of them?

If so, what are your thoughts...


(Edit to add: This thread could die if nobody wants to admit having read them lol)

[Dollface]

I read the first one, tried the second one but i couldn't get into it for some reason

Saw the film recently too, i thought it was good tbh

[Crimson Dynamo]

i was going to read the first one but for some reason I got tied up

[lily.]

[MB.]

I was going to read the first one but for some reason I tied LT up.

[Smithy]

I was going to read them but then i thought, i bet this is better as toilet paper then it is as a story

[Mokka]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

i was going to read the first one but for some reason I got tied up

I am one of the few people on here who will admit to having read them.
I didn't set out to, but a friend of mine insisted for months till I did.
I found the story interesting enough but the writing is crap, and that is a fact.
I basically was able to read one in a couple of hours... so it wasn't really a chore, like reading a kids book for the type of mental capacity it takes, but with obvious adult content.
I'm not sorry I read them. I'd rather know about something that everyone is talking about than not know, so I can form my own opinion. I don't think people should be allowed to chime in when they haven't read it.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MB.

I was going to read the first one but for some reason I tied LT up.

[Mokka]

also... there is more smut in The TiBB Lounge of an evening than there is in those books...
so if your looking for an interesting read... go to the Lounge before it gets deleted in the morning

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Mokkajava

also... there is more smut in The TiBB Lounge of an evening than there is in those books...
so if your looking for an interesting read... go to the Lounge before it gets deleted in the morning

Especially if Jay's online.

[Niamh.]

I haven't read them but after reading what Lily posted in that other thread and I have been reading abit about them online. This bit here that sounds like an abuse victim :/

Spoiler:

He bends and starts undoing one of my sneakers. Oh no... no... my feet. No. I've just been running. "No," I protest, trying to kick him off. He stops. "If you struggle, I'll tie your feet too. If you make a noise, Anastasia, I will gag you."

He slaps her during intercourse.

Afterward when he leaves, she says this: "But now I feel like a receptacle - an empty vessel to be filled at his whim. [...] I have an overwhelming urge to cry, a sad and lonely melancholy grips and tightens round my heart. Dashing back to my bedroom, I close the door and lean against it trying to rationalize my feelings. I can't. Sliding to the floor, I put my head in my hands as my tears begin to flow."

[lily.]

Originally Posted by Mokkajava

also... there is more smut in The TiBB Lounge of an evening than there is in those books...
so if your looking for an interesting read... go to the Lounge before it gets deleted in the morning

:O

Who dares besmirch the good name of the lounge... ? lol

[Crimson Dynamo]

Q: What's green and carries a bill whip?
A: Kermit the Flog

[Jay.]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Especially if Jay's online.

[Jessica.]

I read the first book to see what all the fuss was about and it was absolutely disgusting in every way.

( I didn't buy it, I illegally downloaded an ebook, I felt like I needed to point that out.)

[Crimson Dynamo]

I am reading the History of Glue at the moment

seriously, i cant put it down

[Vanessa]

I only read the good bits.

[Mokka]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I only read the good bits.

... wait... were there any lol

[Vicky.]

Read them eventually...they were ok tbh. Dont understand the fuss from both sides about them

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Mokkajava

... wait... were there any lol

Of course.

[Glenn.]

I started to read the first one but the literature was so shocking I had to stop. The woman cannot write books.

[Mokka]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Read them eventually...they were ok tbh. Dont understand the fuss from both sides about them

This pretty much

Once I read them... They were just meh... Nothing to make a fuss about

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Mokkajava

This pretty much

Once I read them... They were just meh... Nothing to make a fuss about

I can recommend the book I'm reading Mokka. It's about Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - an Argentian Guerilla fighter who assisted Fidel Castro to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba.

The book is about his early life and details how as a youth in Guerilla Training Camp in Rosario Argentina, Ernesto had to pass fifty formal examinations before gaining his 'Guerilla Competency Certificate.

Read it, it's brilliant. It's called 'Fifty Grades of Che'

[user104658]

The books are awful, the semi-literate ramblings of a sexually frustrated middle aged woman. Anyone who calls their protagonist "Anastasia" should be tarred and feathered, for a start, and don't get me started on the "literary technique". It lies somewhere between "5 year old" and "Angry cat that got ink on its claws and then scrabbled across a piece of paper".

The film - almost unfathomably - is even worse. That's not to say "don't watch it", though, I found it oddly compelling viewing because it is so bad that you just have to keep watching. I can't decide if the actors are bad, or if the script is just so infantile that they don't know what to do with it? Either way, there's no chemistry between the two leads, and also, it's the film of a book that became famous for explicit depictions of pseudo-BDSM sex but all of the sex in the film is completely tame and vanilla. There's not a hint of BDSM, at all. At one point he starts STROKING HER LIGHTLY with a leather whip. At the very end, they engage in some relatively mild caning and she starts bawling and asking "why does you wants to hurt me tho ". Which he explained in great detail right at the beginning of the film and asked if she was up for it. They have a debate over a table about whether or not anal fisting is OK and she seems pretty much up for anything but... and then he hits her lightly with a stick and she cries. It's ****ing retarded.

There's also far too much aviation.

tl;dr: Christian Grey declares near the beginning of the film - "I don't make love, Anastasia, I fawk.". He then proceeds to make love for the rest of the film. And fly a helicopter. And a plane. And I think maybe a helicopter again. He also has a lot of cars.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The books are awful, the semi-literate ramblings of a sexually frustrated middle aged woman. Anyone who calls their protagonist "Anastasia" should be tarred and feathered, for a start, and don't get me started on the "literary technique". It lies somewhere between "5 year old" and "Angry cat that got ink on its claws and then scrabbled across a piece of paper".

The film - almost unfathomably - is even worse. That's not to say "don't watch it", though, I found it oddly compelling viewing because it is so bad that you just have to keep watching. I can't decide if the actors are bad, or if the script is just so infantile that they don't know what to do with it? Either way, there's no chemistry between the two leads, and also, it's the film of a book that became famous for explicit depictions of pseudo-BDSM sex but all of the sex in the film is completely tame and vanilla. There's not a hint of BDSM, at all. At one point he starts STROKING HER LIGHTLY with a leather whip. At the very end, they engage in some relatively mild caning and she starts bawling and asking "why does you wants to hurt me tho ". Which he explained in great detail right at the beginning of the film and asked if she was up for it. They have a debate over a table about whether or not anal fisting is OK and she seems pretty much up for anything but... and then he hits her lightly with a stick and she cries. It's ****ing retarded.

There's also far too much aviation.

tl;dr: Christian Grey declares near the beginning of the film - "I don't make love, Anastasia, I fawk.". He then proceeds to make love for the rest of the film. And fly a helicopter. And a plane. And I think maybe a helicopter again. He also has a lot of cars.