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Old 23-03-2015, 02:54 PM #1
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Default 50 Shades...
... 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)
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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
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i was going to read the first one but for some reason I got tied up
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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.
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I was going to read the first one but for some reason I tied LT up.
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I was going to read them but then i thought, i bet this is better as toilet paper then it is as a story
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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
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Especially if Jay's online.
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Who dares besmirch the good name of the lounge... ? lol
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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 :/

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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."
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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.)
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seriously, i cant put it down
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... wait... were there any lol
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Read them eventually...they were ok tbh. Dont understand the fuss from both sides about them
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Once I read them... They were just meh... Nothing to make a fuss about
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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'

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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'

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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'

thanks Kirk

But I was actually thinking of reading a recommended book by one of my fav authors next, Patrick Rothfuss reading 50 "Shades of Grey":
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