Fifty Shades Of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey Series, 1)

First book I read before the movie and definitely left out a lot

The writing isn't good. The main character seems dimwitted and annoying. The romantic interest is a walking cliche, but at least he's a little interesting. The plot is kind of bad too. The end is especially poor.

I do have to say that it took me up until half way through this book to start really enjoying it. It almost became a book I was going to give up on. But once you see it through, it’s quite wonderful! You end up learning why Christian Grey is the way he is, it all starts to make sense, and watching him soften for Ana is just the most beautiful thing💕 definitely like this book! Can’t wait to see what the next two hold. Thank you E L James!

Yup, this is on my DNF (did not finish) shelf. I couldn't put myself through the torture. I gave it a chance -- nine whole chapters! Enough to be introduced to the main players, see the playroom, and survive the first sex scene.

I read enough.

There isn't much I can add onto what's already been said so eloquently by others (here & here). I didn't find this book sexy at all, and the Twilight parallels were annoying. I felt as if I was getting beat over the head with the grey references: Christian GREY who works in a grey building as the owner of Grey Enterprises, has grey eyes and who almost always wears clothes that are grey in color. YEAH, I GET IT ALREADY, THANKS. I found the characters unappealing and the sex un-sexy... if I could un-read the few portions of this book that I managed to get through, I would.

For those of you who liked it, more power to you. I simply couldn't justify putting myself through the rest of it. I say this not because I had an issue with the subject matter, but because I couldn't endure the poor writing.

I fully acknowledge that my lack of tolerance is due to (a) limited time to enjoy "fun leisure books" (therefore I should go read something I will actually enjoy, and not be rolling my eyes through) and (b) tons and tons of academic reading by classic authors who knew how to put sentences together well.

I loved the book so much more than the movie. I loved how detailed it was and how it all takes place in Christans pov instead of Anastasia. Beautiful book and amazingly written.