If you like this book, I'm just going to ask that you not read any further because I don't want to offend anybody. But I'll be damned if I'm not goingIf you like this book, I'm just going to ask that you not read any further because I don't want to offend anybody. But I'll be damned if I'm not going to have my say.
This is the more realistic interpretation of someone like Christian Grey:
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If that's your thing then HE'S ALL YOURS, LADIES!! But when it comes to *MY* fantasies controlling, creepy, clingy, and abusive pedobear stalkers need not apply.
Who knows why, but I finally broke down and read this crap. Maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment. But if I'm going to hate on something for the attention it's getting and the fact that I literally can't go ONE DAY without hearing about it no matter how hard I try to avoid it, the least I can do is give it an honest shot. At least I can now rightfully state my opinion that it's a *complete* travesty to literature. This is exactly how you define "utter garbage"; this "writer" (if she can even call herself that) is a disgrace to the craft, and much like Meyer she borrows from way better novels without injecting any decent form of originality. I'll watch Dexter if I want to focus on a character with dead mommy issues, k thx. At least he just kills people that deserve it instead of stalking and sexually abusing some stupidly compliant twit that I kinda wish he actually WOULD HAVE killed--woulda made it more interesting at least. I spent the majority of the book wanting to do to the character what "Rick James" is doing to this couch: [image]
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Maybe I'm a little fucked up myself to keep on reading to see what the fucking point of this was. But I'm obviously not as fucked up as this cast. I didn't think it could get any worse than Twilight, but of course its hellspawn would prove me wrong. I wish negative stars were possible. I'm not a prude, but it makes me wonder about and weep for what society has come to a little bit. This book has absolutely no redeeming qualities aside from it *finally* ending, and I really don't give a fuck what happens next. They could both die horrible deaths and I'd just think the world would be a better place for it. One less idiot; one less sicko bastard. Maybe I can just write a fanfic about that and Warner Bros. will contract me for a movie on it since piggybacking is obviously "in" now and the masses eat it up.
I certainly have my share of flawed billionaire book crushes (cue Trent Kalamack and Jericho Barrons), but Christian Grey is as far as you can get from making my list. At least they have actual goals and a purpose. And, more importantly, their love interests wouldn't be on the business end of their transgressions while IN the actual relationship. Christian Grey's psychological profile reminds me more of Christian Bale in American Psycho. This dude is just a fucking creeper, plain and simple. If he weren't so "beautiful" on the outside like we have to hear about ad nauseam OR rich, I bet her stupid ass would get a clue. The devil was the most beautiful angel after all.
And I must have missed the memo where this is supposed to be hott. It didn't get my motor running and it didn't help that these characters are so damned unlikeable. I'm not big on erotica, but I've read many books with explicit sex scenes and some actually manage to be pretty hott, so for this book it HAS to be the terrible writing that leaves me cold and repulsed. I may have a permanent WTF look etched on my face because that's all I could muster while reading this inane POS for who knows how many hours.
Not to mention, to me it's suggesting that to be into that lifestyle you have to have some sort of fucked up issues that manifest during childhood. I'd be insulted if that were my thing. I'm a proponent of doing whatever floats your boat, but this was just badly executed in every which way.
I was sick of hearing about her corny ass "inner goddess". I was sick of her stupid lip biting. I was sick of his head cocking. Being written in first person was probably the worst thing to happen to this book. She's got the type of mentality of those stupid girls that run off and end up missing, probably due to blindly following some crazy ass dude like this. It's not much different to me than a kid being abused trying to convince himself that he believes it's okay and that he wants it. She may be an adult, but mental maturity is relative. And believe me, there's very little that comes out of her mouth that sounds mature.
As for a story? As if there's no other book out there with an angsty storyline that you don't have to TRY to find between all of this sick shit? All in all, I wish I got these hours of my life back and I anxiously await the day that this fad passes by like everything else NOT worthy of the attention it gets in modern pop culture.
Sex sells. So this is really just an excuse to put porn on the shelves...with a warped but uninventive fairytale thrown in for kicks.
As I said, I'm a glutton for punishment. It's my own damn fault, but unlike Twilight where I read all 4 trying to figure out what the big deal was, I promise this is as far as I'm going with this one.
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