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Fifty Shades of Grey, True 2011 First Edition Paperback – Large Print, January 1, 2011
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- Print length372 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe Writer's Coffee Shop
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2011
- Dimensions6 x 0.86 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101612130283
- ISBN-13978-1612130286
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- Publisher : The Writer's Coffee Shop; True First Edition, First State, with Bookmark (January 1, 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 372 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1612130283
- ISBN-13 : 978-1612130286
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.86 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,361,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #596,428 in Romance (Books)
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About the author

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian’s point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.
E L James has been recognised as one of Time magazine's ‘Most Influential People in the World’ and Publishers Weekly’s ‘Person of the Year’. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS’s The Great American Read (2018). Darker has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.
She co-produced for Universal Studios the Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third instalment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People’s Choice Award for Drama in 2018.
E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.
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This book is bad. Don't waste your money. It's not sexy. There's better out there.
Is that okay amazon, or are you gonna reject that one too? I will not rest until I get my review up!
Ana was so oblivious in the beginning thinking he was just this hot billionaire who wanted to date her. She had no idea what she was getting herself into. She thought she was Cinderella being taken back to his house on a helicopter but no matter how hot or rich the guy was the moment he showed me the Red Room I probably would have ran for my life. Well, maybe.
I loved that we did not get to see Christian’s POV. By doing that I felt like I was going on the ride with Ana too. I felt all the emotions and was anxious because we had no idea how he really felt about her. Every girl hopes that she is going to be the one who can make a guy change his ways. Their relationship had us on a rollercoaster of emotions. Be prepared for a cliffhanger and just be glad you do not have to wait for the second book.
I've heard all the arguments about why this book is wrong or how it's truly not BDSM and guess what?!?! I DON'T CARE! I absolutely love the love story between these two. Christian is the alpha male, troubled past, thinks he's not worthy of love, possessive, dominant, etc...I LOVE all of this with him. Obviously, because I've read them, I'm more tolerable, but clearly, I liked it the first time I read it as well if I keep going back for more, right?
I have a love/hate relationship with Ana. She really is very self-conscious and doubts herself more than I care for. But I like how she keeps pushing Christian. They both are trying to figure things out and really are a hot mess while doing it, but come on, aren't we all? Ana's mom gave her some great advice.
Does she listen, not really, but I'm glad that she's fighting for what she wants towards the end of the book even if I don't necessarily agree with how she went about it.
Now I'm off to read the next book because for me they just get better as they go along. And I can't wait to re-read Christian's POV because well those are really my favorite!
Anastasia Steele fills in for her roommate and best friend, Kate, who's writing an article on billionaire, Christian Grey when she falls ill. But the moment she walks into his office, the innocent book worm is so intrigued and taken with the gorgeous enigmatic man, she wants to get closer to him.
Their immediate chemistry is unexpected, and Christian wants Ana as well. But he wants her for completely different reasons.
When Ana finds out that his "tastes" include a contract, she hesitates to sign it. He's extremely successful in all his business endeavors, but when it comes to love and relationships he's clueless. And Ana wants it all. Christian has had a rough start in life before he was adopted as a toddler. So his need for control of everything and anything is overwhelming.
When the couple begin their hot, sexy affair, Ana discovers that she enjoys Christian's desires, until she doesn't. No matter how much she loves him, she can't tolerate his dark side, so she ends things.
A must read.
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Porn is availablr if you want it, on the internet. I guess some women have not got involved in porn so this seemed like scandalous fun. I found it depressing.
Okay it turns out to be about a relationship and perhaps the woman gets to have a bit of power in the end in this relationship - wait and see, there are two more glorious books with the words "mumured" or " I pushed a lock of hair behind my ear" or "I bit my lip" till you want to scream. But it is very popular.
Not even so bad its good; its just plain bad.
The lead male is a stalker, control freak and all round nutcase who should be in prison. The lead female is a doormat with split personalities.
The lead male is messed up as he was sexually abused as a teen, so now he is taking it out on the lead female. Erotic? Hardly.
It is written in the style you'd expect from an illiterate teenager. I can't believe grown women are fawning over this. The book is an empty shell, full of the same repetitive nonsense to fill a book. As far as erotica goes, it's unimaginitive and quite frankly boring. The hysteria reminds me of the days giggling behind the bike sheds. Surely the only people getting excited are the celibate, or those who have never come across erotica before. Also to note, those comparing it to twilight. You would be right. It was originally fan fiction. Bella-Ana. Edward-Grey. Jacob-Jose. Google it, the book is available in its original form on the net. Masters of the universe. Same book, same author under a pseudonym. Just the names have been changed for this to be released as "original" work. The characters are based on those of twilight.
To sum up this book, so you to don't have to waste your time reading it. Bella and Edward, I mean Ana and Grey have lots of boring sex, in a badly written book, repeat the following expressions......
"Biting lip"
"Rolling eyes"
"Foil"
"Oh my"
"Holy *!?* "
"Inner goddess"
"Darkening eyes"
"Shattering"
"Blushing"
That's the book basically word for word.
The author clearly has a very limited vocabulary and the same adjectives and exclamations are constantly repeated with maddening regularity. Mr. Christian Grey, who owns Grey Enterprises based in Grey House, has gray (not grey) eyes and wears gray flannel trousers; you get sick of seeing the word 'gray' (American spelling) very quickly.
As if that wasn't bad enough, how many times does the author have to say "oh my" or "holy crap" or "oh no". It's pathetic.
If any part of this book had been written as an O-level English composition it would have failed dismally, and the very fact that this book has become such a huge best-seller says a lot for the decline in the appreciation of our language and our literature.
The two main characters are extremely shallow and seem to have no redeeming personality features whatsoever. Even the sex scenes get boring after you've read the same stuff over and over again. A bit of variation, please! As other readers have pointed out, there is nothing clever or creative or artistic in the writing style at all. If this is all the talent it takes to make millions, then I've clearly missed my way in life.
I didn't even finish the book. I read the first ten chapters, did a quick keyword search on my Kindle to see if the other 400 or so pages were any different (they weren't) then deleted it from my device before any of my friends knew I'd been daft enough to buy it.
Cringe-worthy rubbish.






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