After all the internet buzz about this book, “50 Shades of Grey” by E.L. James, I just had to give it a read for myself. While I refuse to get into details about my personal life and sex life, I would say however, that I do enjoy porn and enjoy reading “erotica” fiction. I just had to give this book a read myself, just out of curiosity. For the past few months, women all over the internet has been going crazy over this book. Saying this book is addicting to them and pretty “steamy”. There are mixed opinions on this book, some say that this book is terribly written. So whose side am I on, the fans or the haters? Sorry, but I’m going to side with the haters on this one and agree that this book was terribly written.

Throughout the entire book, I felt like the book was written by a teenage girl. You know the way a teenage girl talks? Well, that’s how the narrator talks throughout this entire book. The main character, Anastasia Steele, will talk like this throughout most of the book: “Holy Fuck”, “Oh shit”, “Oh no”, etc. You get the deal. The way she wrote Christian Grey was kind of silly as well.

Now let’s talk about the topic of this book of what made it so popular. All the sex and “Bondage”. Was it steamy that some said it was? No. It wasn’t all that steamy, in my opinion. Most of the sex was boring. Maybe like one or two sex scenes in the book were pretty good, but could have been hotter. Plus, most of the sex was all repetitive bullcrap, nothing new going on. I appreciate E.L. James trying to promote “Bondage S & M” (aka, BDSM for short) and trying to get people interested but even the bondage stuff in the book was pretty silly. She did an okay job making the “BDSM” stuff realistic, the written agreement was real, the safewords were real, and the equipment used were real. If you did research on bondage, it can be more disturbing and a little risky than the stuff you’ve read in the novel. I never did any, BDSM. No lie. I don’t think I’ll ever be into it but I’ve read about that stuff on the internet, so I know some stuff about it.

EL James wasn’t the first to bring BDSM into novel fiction. Stephen King did it with his book, “Gerald’s Game”, and Anne Rice did it with the Sleeping Beauty novels. If you’re interested in “erotic” stories and want to read more, “BDSM” fiction, there is plenty of that everywhere. Go to your adult book stores in town that sells porn books, and I’m sure you can find plenty there. Also, if you have good spyware/virus protection, the internet can have better “BDSM” stories too. The point is, forget the overrated “50 Shades of Grey”. Look else where for porn. The one thing that I am impressed with this novel is that it got most women to show that they are interested in sex more than anything. I also respect EL James for trying to bring BDSM, into the mainstream and get more people interested.

With all this being said, this book was okay. Some of it can be entertaining but most of it was boring. I don’t think I’ll bother reading the other two books. Now if Hollywood is planning to do movies on this series, good luck on trying not to get an NC-17 rating, which is going to be kind of hard. I don’t care who plays Anastasia Steele or Christian Grey. This film is going to be a hard movie to make and I’m not sure if they’ll be able to pull it off even with a simple R rating. Thumbs down on “50 Shades”, I wouldn’t recommend it. Yes, I did feel like reading a young adults “Twilight” book.

Kev