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⌈ Secret Post #3203 ⌋

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Comments

50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone here actually read the book cover to cover? Is it really as badly written as it's said to be?

I've heard the writing is worse than Twilight, but I find that hard to imagine.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[ketita]

I've read snarky reviews that quote extensively, and from what they quoted, it seemed pretty dang embarrassing.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

Do you happen to have links to any of those reviews?

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[ketita]

I had to do a whole bunch of searching, I don't remember all of them, but I'm pretty sure this was one that I enjoyed:
http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/p/fifty-shades-of-grey-index.html

They definitely have plenty of excerpts, for full cringe effect.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

Jenny Trout did awesome scathing recaps, chapter by chapter. Just google her name.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

It's way worse than Twilight. Even ignoring the content and focusing on writing styles exclusively, FSOG makes Twilight look pretty good by comparison.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read it all, though I did read quite a lot of it back when it was "Master of the Universe" aka the Twilight fic it started out as. I tried to pick it up once back when it first came out, and couldn't finish it (Also I couldn't let go of the feeling that I had read it before, which it turned out I had)

From what I remember the Twilight roots are still there. There is the Bella, the Edward, the Jacob and the Rosalie. A lot of still just felt really Twilight like, just worse. It also doesn't help that it is written by a Brit trying to sound American.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder how it compares as a fanfic. Obviously the fanfic was popular, but that doesn't say much about writing ability.

I haven't read the book, but I also heard the "Americanisms" were really awkward and it very much sounded like a British person trying and failing to sound American.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

Is a copy of the fic still circulating?

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

According to a plagiarism thingie for school papers they are a 89 % match, where a lot of those 11 % that are not matching would be name changes.

http://dearauthor.com/features/industry-news/master-of-the-universe-versus-fifty-shades-by-e-l-james-comparison/

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

No cover to cover - got half way through before the bad reading made me unable to continue. Now I can't compare it to Twilight cause I've never read THAT book, but man, 50 Shades really is shockingly bad. Tons of inconsistencies, purple prose, clunky awkward dialogue, you name it.

Re: 50 Shades of Grey

[(Anonymous)]

listen to the Mark Reads version on youtube

yes, it's much worse, and each book in the trilogy tops the last for terribleness