Fifty
Shades of Grey
By E. L. James
Paperback, 514 pages
Series: Fifty Shades
#1
Published on: April 3rd
2012 (first published 2011)
Publisher: Vintage / Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 0345803485
The unworldly, innocent Ana is
shocked to realize she wants this man, and when he warns her to keep her
distance it only makes her more desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist
Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her - but
on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's
singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success – his
multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving adoptive family – Grey is
a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple
embarks on a passionate, physical and daring affair, Ana learns more about her
own dark desires, as well as the Christian Grey hidden away from public
scrutiny.
Can their relationship transcend physical passion? Will Ana
find it in herself to submit to the self-indulgent Master? And if she does,
will she still love what she finds?
Before I start the
review, I’d like to clarify why on earth I even thought to read this one. A
month ago I saw the name of the book in the Bestsellers’ list on Flipkart. As
usual, I judged the book by its cover and didn’t read the blurb. I presumed
that it was a self help book about being successful at business or something. E
L James, I thought, was some top-notch businessman. After checking Barnes and
Nobles a few days later, I saw all the three books of the Fifty Shades trilogy
on the number one, two and three of the Bestsellers’ list. I thought the
business man has penned down his entire life’s experiences in the three books.
I downloaded a Kindle copy of the book.
I am a self-help
lover. I wanted to read it as soon as my exams ended. When they ended, I was
searching Goodreads lists of High School Romance and suddenly I saw, a list
said ‘Best Erotic Romance Fiction’ and guess what? Fifty Shades trilogy again
topped the list. The curiosity of what could make an Erotica a bestseller
killed me and I started reading Fifty Shades of Grey.
The book starts when
Anastasia Steele does her sick friend, Kate, a favour by going to interview a
hotshot businessman Christian Grey for the college paper. He finds her
intriguing and she in turn finds him very charming and handsome. Almost
immediately, Ana falls in love with Christian Grey.
There’s nothing good
about the book that is to be discussed. This book was a torture to go through.
I didn’t read it all. I couldn’t. After I read about twenty percent of the
book, I wanted to puke. Then and there, I deleted the file from my computer.
And for two whole days after that, whenever I thought about the last page I read,
I literally felt like gagging.
Just as I started the
book, I found the dialogue formation awkward. I had never read dialogues so
poorly written. Next, what I realised was that the author was very, very
repetitive. The vocabulary of the author seemed too limited. But over a few
pages, when the vocabulary had developed, repetition had taken other forms. I
detested the author’s writing style. It’s juvenile and not
even average.
The characters are
poorly developed. Many scenes have directly been taken from the Twilight books.
The author should be charged with serious plagiarism. I had my first WTF moment
when I was reading about all those rules and a bit later on when Ana lost her
virginity. This was so not at all romantic or sensual. It was dirty. Absolutely
filthy!
The author has shown
her filthy mind by promoting BDSM in the book. But what is worse is that she
doesn’t even know how to write filth! When Ana tells Christian that she’s
a virgin, he says that they need to “fix it up”. Fix it up? As if being a virgin
was a disorder! There are many gross things shown in the book that no-one doing
the BDSM can even imagine.
The contract thingy
that James has done, is absolute shit! She’s shown as if it was not BDSM but
some underworld activity.
Anastasia was a foolish,
stupid, idiotic, dumb, nonsense and dung-headed girl. She has no sense of
decision or anything at all. The only thing that she has is her maddening inner
goddess that drives the reader crazy after every other paragraph. James is so
damn repetitive!
Christian is an ass!
He’s possessive, proud, arrogant.. ah, he is a psycho. I hated him like
anything. He’s got brain damage apparently, that James has forgotten to mention
in the book.
It torments me to even
think about it. The last thing I’d want to say is that don’t, don’t even think
of reading this. It is neither worth time, nor money. If you like Romance or
even Erotica, go figure out something else. This is absolute waste of
everything!
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