No, he isn’t a vampire or a spy or Batman. She can hardly believe her luck when this perfect man whisks her away to his penthouse in Seattle. Anastasia knows that she’s no match for him looks-wise, so it baffles her when he starts pursuing her: showing up at her work, sending her a first-edition of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, rescuing her from a drunken evening out. He’s young, for one, and he’s intense, really intense. Whatever she expected, it wasn’t the reality of Christian Grey. All she knows is that he’s rich and he donates to the university. She doesn’t know how old he is or what he does. She doesn’t know anything about Christian Grey. It’s a last minute thing and honestly, she’s just not prepared for it (or for anything in life, really, but we’ll get to that). Her BFF Kate is sick, and being sick she is incapable of driving the three hours or conducting the interview. But she does have to, even though she isn’t technically on the student paper. Before she can do that, though, she’s got to get through finals, a task which would be made easier if she didn’t have to drive up to Seattle to interview some billionaire named Christian Grey for the student newspaper. So, what’s it all about?Īnastasia Steele is on the cusp of graduating from Washington State University. Yes, I am very grateful despite the fact that I ended up loathing this book. ![]() I was lent it and I am very grateful to that person. I should state, for the record, that I was did not buy this book. So let’s call this after my favorite safe word: Julie Andrews! My!” Perhaps, “Where There’s a Will, There’s an Ellipsis” or “The Whiner, the Witch, and the Wanker”? No, I’ve got it: “Oh Bondage! Up Yours!” but I wouldn’t want to associate X-Ray Spex with this book. Something succinct like: “50 Shades of Grey, 7 Shades of Scarlet, & 372 Pages of Dumb.” Or maybe: “120 Days of Boredom.” What about: “The Story of Oh. In writing this, I’ve been thinking of alternate titles, something that plays on the title of the book, what it is about, and how I feel about it. At one point, I had to start drinking heavily. I wanted to scratch my eyes out or maybe the characters’. But this was not WTF in an absurd, adorable way. After all, WTFery is simply the absurd taken to new heights of, well, of absurdity. If I was not a fan of WTFery, I would not have enjoyed afternoon soap operas for most of my teen years. I was told that there was a high level of WTFery but I ignored this warning. I was intrigued by the fact that the book was apparently once a Twilight fan fiction piece entitled Master of the Universe and featured a BDSM relationship between the main protagonists. So I’m pretty much in the minority when it comes to this book as I hated it.įifty Shades of Grey came to my attention during a Twitter conversation. This review is being posted in lieu of a morning opinion piece because it is an opinion piece of sorts and because, well, it is verbose. ![]() ![]() James / fan-fiction / Fifty Shades / Twilight Saga 267 Comments FebruREVIEW: Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James
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