of mediocrity. I may seem like a total pervert for reading this book, but come on, who doesn’t get curious when it says “Erotic novel” on the back. Anyway, I Googled this before I read it and I kinda wished I hadn’t.
The similarities between this and Twilight became all too obvious. No offense to E.L. James, but I don’t know how this got published (then again it might have something to do with the word “erotic”).
The first book “Fifty Shades of Grey” as you can read on Wikipedia, is an erotic novel by British author E.L. James, which was originally a fanfiction to the Twilight saga.
You can read traces of Twilight anywhere on there, from the characters to the dialogues, I mean seriously this was like a total rip-off. Its kinda like appealing itself to the same Twilight audience who have consequently grown up.
This tells the story of Anastasia “Ana” Steele, a bookish, sort of a loner, with an inferiority complex, fresh grad student who has caught this eye of the mysterious, drop-dead gorgeous, unbelievably talented, incredibly seemingly cold and ridiculously rich Christian Grey.
[Spolier Alert!]
Ana immediately falls for Christian. Christian obviously is interested in her, but holds back, drops the line “I’m not the man for you." (which is totally Edward-ish). Both ends up giving in. She finds out deep dark secret (well not most of it) ignores all signs and warnings. Then she ends up leaving him (which probably is the only thing that differs from Twilight, that the fact that the girl left the guy).
I’m not a writer, obviously, but I do read a lot of books and this just doesn’t cut it. It appeared to me like she had a very limited vocabulary, the scenes may be exciting enough but when you use the same words to describe it, makes it all boring in the end. By the time I was reading the second book, the sex scenes (which were massively abundant, duh? erotic) have become too tiring and it just makes me want to skip it because I already know what the character feels like or what she’s thinking because the author keeps using the same words over and over again. That kinda irritated me, by the third book, I was trying my best to keep reading just so I could finish it, but it was torture.
I didn’t buy her style in narrating this story, I mean sure, use the genre to its full extent and make them have sex at every turn but come on, if your gonna do just that, try and make it interesting (sure, we get a glimpse into the world of BDSM) but I don’t know, I guess for me, it call down to her writing technique and it failed.
Seriously, I’m a girl, supposedly I should be empathizing the protagonist but the only time I got excited was when there was suspense, but then it goes back to the sex and honestly speaking, the sex ruined it all. How freaking ironic is that.
That said, I have no idea how this gets to be adapted (fine, it’s the “erotic” word again) into a movie. I’m like ‘What?’ It just doesn’t make sense at all. But since we’re into the movie might as well give thoughts.
I agree with the majority, when I was reading this, I envisioned Ian Somerholder as Christian Grey. He has the smoldering gaze that melts you even if its just a picture, Somerholder’s stare is enough to sell him as the enigmatic Christian Grey, but as for Ana Steele, I have no idea. I guess I’ll have to look through the possibilities.
