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Oh! For the love of GOD stop having sex. But really we don't mind, carry on!:D

I was only going to read the first but now my fiancé has read the second and started the third. So against better judgement I'll finish them too. It's not like it's a difficult read anyways.
 
Hilarious review from Amazon:

Did a teenager write this??

I really don't like writing bad reviews. I admire people who have the courage to put pen to paper and expose themselves to the whole world, especially those writing erotica. Having just finished this book, however, I feel compelled to write a review.

About half way through the book, I looked up the author to see if she was a teenager. I really did because the characters are out of a 16 year old's fantasy. The main male character is a billionaire (not a millionaire but a billionaire) who speaks fluent French, is basically a concert level pianist, is a fully trained pilot, is athletic, drop dead gorgeous, tall, built perfectly with an enormous penis, and the best lover on the planet. In addition, he's not only self made but is using his money to combat world hunger. Oh yeah, and all of this at the ripe old age of 26! And on top of that, he's never working. Every second is spent having sex or texting and emailing the female character. His billions seem to have just come about by magic. It seriously feels like 2 teenage girls got together and decided to create their "dream man" and came up with Christian Grey.

Then come the sex scenes. The first one is tolerable but as she goes on, they become so unbelievable that it becomes more laughable than erotic. She orgasms at the drop of a hat. He says her name and she orgasms. He simply touches her and she orgasms. It seems that she's climaxing on every page.

Then there's the writing. If you take out the parts where the female character is blushing or chewing her lips, the book will be down to about 50 pages. Almost on every single page, there is a whole section devoted to her blushing, chewing her lips or wondering "Jeez" about something or another. Then there's the use of "shades of". He's "fifty shades of @#$%% up," "she turned 7 shades of crimson," "he's ten shades of x,y, and z." Seriously?

The writing is just not up to par, the characters are unbelievable, and the sex verges on the comical. I don't know what happens in the remaining books and I do not intend to read them to find out. But given the maturity level of the first book, I imagine that they get married, have 2 perfect children, cure world hunger, and live happily ever after while riding into the sunset, as the female character climaxes on her horse causing her to chew her bottom lip and blush fifty shades of crimson. Jeez!
 
I have no intention to subject myself to those rags of drivel. Especially after hearing the aggravating, inaccurate and totally offensive way that BDSM has been portrayed in them. (link, SFW and a worthwhile read.) Simply put - Christian Grey is abusive, not a dominant. Fifty shades of flawed crap.
 
I have no intention to subject myself to those rags of drivel. Especially after hearing the aggravating, inaccurate and totally offensive way that BDSM has been portrayed in them. (link, SFW and a worthwhile read.) Simply put - Christian Grey is abusive, not a dominant. Fifty shades of flawed crap.

I guess you could say this is one person's view of the material.
 
I was driving down to DC and we were listening to the audiobook and making fun of it in the car. Terribly written book. Terrible terrible terrible all around. Not because of the content, it was just a bad book.
 
I was driving down to DC and we were listening to the audiobook and making fun of it in the car. Terribly written book. Terrible terrible terrible all around. Not because of the content, it was just a bad book.

I agree. It's laughably bad. Finishing this third book is like driving a nail underneath my fingernails but at this point I'm not going to stop. A couple days of my laugh for years of laughs is worthwhile. Plus my other half is reading them and more funny to see the looks on her face when I know what she's reading.
 
Well, considering that this is a Mac forum, and you're all slagging the book off (I tend to agree), I'm amazed that no-one has mentioned this (maybe you were all skipping the bits between the sex scenes :p )

"Okay, what is it?"

"It's a MacBook Pro."

"Of course it is." I roll my eyes

"These aren't available in the shops yet, ma'am; the very latest from Apple."


[...]

"It's got the latest OS and a full suite of programs, plus a one-point-five terabyte hard drive so you'll have plenty of room, thirty-two gigs of RAM - what are you planning to use it for?"

"Uh ... e-mail."


:rolleyes:
 
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And to answer your question, all women are an immeasurable amount of crazy. (I'm only joking of course.)

Depending on the time of month or what stage of menopause. ;)

I've always enjoyed the arousing nature of sexual content mixed into a good story, however I have not read this book. From what I've read here, maybe not.
 
I have to say, the best thing about this book, has been the celebrity readings. My little brother, some friends, and I got to experience this one at ConnectiCon.

The Team Four Star guys got Jon St John (Prolific voice actor, most notoriously known as the voice of the manifestation of misogyny Duke Nukem) to read a bit of the book.

http://youtu.be/5oUa-3W0BFI


I love Ellen's reading as well;

http://youtu.be/on3JCwnwHbU
 
What's the deal with women having to read some terrible female fap fiction to get their rocks off?

Don't they realise that there is a ton of marvellously filthy grot, all over the internets - That's the sole purpose of the internet!

It's not too difficult either to load up your iPhone or whatever with some lovely stuff, if you have the urge for a little sneaky, cheeky peak on the train or whatever.

Who wants to read lots of words, when a nice few clips of absurdly diabolical shenanigans will have your eyelids fluttering?
 
What's the deal with women having to read some terrible female fap fiction to get their rocks off?

Don't they realise that there is a ton of marvellously filthy grot, all over the internets - That's the sole purpose of the internet!

It's not too difficult either to load up your iPhone or whatever with some lovely stuff, if you have the urge for a little sneaky, cheeky peak on the train or whatever.

Who wants to read lots of words, when a nice few clips of absurdly diabolical shenanigans will have your eyelids fluttering?

What's the deal with assuming we're all the same? A few women have replied to this thread with nothing but disinterest in this book. I have never read "female fap fiction" and can't imagine it will appeal in the future, either.
That being said, plenty of studies have shown that men are more stimulated by a visual than women, who tend to be slightly more cerebral with what titillates. So perhaps it takes more than "a nice few clips of absurdly diabolical shenanigans" to excite women. Hopefully you get to find out one day. :p
 
I have test read both this stuff and Hornet's Nest in the Bookstore kind of out of curiosity to figure out what the big deal is. Honestly, the books make me ill. I consider myself a pretty kinky individual but the depiction of sex in these books disturbs me and doesn't even remotely arouse me. Maybe it's the fact that I didn't grow up in a repressed culture like the US but I just find the animalistic way sex is being portrayed in these books and in the media simply gross. These books just take the way sex is being portrayed in Hollywood films to the next level. The last movie I can recall where sex was actually portrayed as a loving, sensual act was Titanic. The rest of it was just animals rutting......

And just to be clear, I very much enjoy a graphic and kinky sex scene as much as anyone but I find this stuff just plain disturbed...
 
What's the deal with assuming we're all the same? A few women have replied to this thread with nothing but disinterest in this book. I have never read "female fap fiction" and can't imagine it will appeal in the future, either.
That being said, plenty of studies have shown that men are more stimulated by a visual than women, who tend to be slightly more cerebral with what titillates. So perhaps it takes more than "a nice few clips of absurdly diabolical shenanigans" to excite women. Hopefully you get to find out one day. :p

Yes I meant every single woman has to read a trifling novel to get their rocks off, I wasn't deliberately exaggerating for effect at all.

Loads of women already love the online porns, but it seems that very few are willing to admit it. The guys are obviously much greater enthusiastic consumers of the same, although it wouldn't surprise me if the gap increasingly narrows.

It's kind of strange, it seems that these books are like a badge of honour for some, no one really thinks it's particularly great, but it seems to be a bandwagon type of thing when they take their sexy(sic) book on the train. Maybe I should read a grot mag on the train as a show of solidarity? Although somehow people might be offended by that for some reason.

I can't deny anyone to their own preference or experience however they choose to get it, but its a hell of a lot easier if we all just admit we are all pretty filthy and online porn is one the greatest things of the modern age.

I'm not quite sure what you meant at the end of your post, it's not as if I am glued (!) to my porn riddled computer, and never venture into the offline realm.

Lastly, you've never read female fap fiction? You'd be surprised at the classics that fall into this category, even if there is nary a peck on the cheek. Sometimes its what isn't written, that (as you probably know), feeds the imagination.
 
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listened to part of it on ride back home from work. started crying with laughter about how bad the book is, but it got me hooked. Probably one of the most interesting/terrible books i've heard listened to.
 
Maybe pause it for any bridge crosses to avoid the temptation to run off the road.

There were some ladies in the elevator yesterday who were talking about 'a book' they were reading, just to see what the fuss was all about. :D Although no name was mentioned, I knew what it was they were talking about - even though I've not read it. I couldn't help but let out a little grin, which they recognised and chuckled about. ;)

To be perfectly honest, it doesn't bother me if people read this kind of stuff. If that's your thing, then more power to you.

Loads of women already love the online porns, but it seems that very few are willing to admit it. The guys are obviously much greater enthusiastic consumers of the same, although it wouldn't surprise me if the gap increasingly narrows.

It's kind of strange, it seems that these books are like a badge of honour for some, no one really thinks it's particularly great, but it seems to be a bandwagon type of thing when they take their sexy(sic) book on the train. Maybe I should read a grot mag on the train as a show of solidarity? Although somehow people might be offended by that for some reason.

Some of them do admit it, but they are discreet about it. As for your second paragraph, I've seen that too on a train. :eek: Couldn't believe it - on a crowded peak hour train no less. :eek:
 
i have read and watched the "twilight" series and as is usually the case, the books were much better than the movies. That being said i have to say that getting through the "50 shades" trilogy was one of the hardest things ive ever done. i had the audiobooks for the first and second books and actually read the third just because i like to finish what i start. From the very first page, i found myself irritated by Ana and my annoyance grew the further i read.
her roomate Kate was an aggravating, bossy and nosy b@!$h!
Jose was a whiny pathetic fool
Christian was an idiot for putting up with all of Ana's issues etc.
She (Ana) claims to love Christian but proceeds to give him grief about everything and try to turn him into the exact opposite of what he was when she met him. she is an overemotional drama queen and a hypocrite (for example, she hates the idea of Christian having anything to do with "Mrs Robinson" yet expects him to be fine with her being friends with Jose even though he obviously has feelings for her.)

I have so many other issues with the characters in the book and would love to have a discussion with anybody who is interested.

p.s: sorry about the rant but i had to get that off my chest :)

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Hilarious review from Amazon:

Did a teenager write this??

I really don't like writing bad reviews. I admire people who have the courage to put pen to paper and expose themselves to the whole world, especially those writing erotica. Having just finished this book, however, I feel compelled to write a review.

About half way through the book, I looked up the author to see if she was a teenager. I really did because the characters are out of a 16 year old's fantasy. The main male character is a billionaire (not a millionaire but a billionaire) who speaks fluent French, is basically a concert level pianist, is a fully trained pilot, is athletic, drop dead gorgeous, tall, built perfectly with an enormous penis, and the best lover on the planet. In addition, he's not only self made but is using his money to combat world hunger. Oh yeah, and all of this at the ripe old age of 26! And on top of that, he's never working. Every second is spent having sex or texting and emailing the female character. His billions seem to have just come about by magic. It seriously feels like 2 teenage girls got together and decided to create their "dream man" and came up with Christian Grey.

Then come the sex scenes. The first one is tolerable but as she goes on, they become so unbelievable that it becomes more laughable than erotic. She orgasms at the drop of a hat. He says her name and she orgasms. He simply touches her and she orgasms. It seems that she's climaxing on every page.

Then there's the writing. If you take out the parts where the female character is blushing or chewing her lips, the book will be down to about 50 pages. Almost on every single page, there is a whole section devoted to her blushing, chewing her lips or wondering "Jeez" about something or another. Then there's the use of "shades of". He's "fifty shades of @#$%% up," "she turned 7 shades of crimson," "he's ten shades of x,y, and z." Seriously?

The writing is just not up to par, the characters are unbelievable, and the sex verges on the comical. I don't know what happens in the remaining books and I do not intend to read them to find out. But given the maturity level of the first book, I imagine that they get married, have 2 perfect children, cure world hunger, and live happily ever after while riding into the sunset, as the female character climaxes on her horse causing her to chew her bottom lip and blush fifty shades of crimson. Jeez!

Have to agree with pretty much everything you said. i worked my way through all three books and you were pretty accurate on the ending...lol..
By about halfway through the book i was so tired of all the "Holy craps" that i was ready to stick an icepick through my ears (listened to the audiobook). i know the book is fiction but i can only take my willing suspension of disbelief so far ....not far enough to find any redeeming qualities in this series though. A complete waste of time!

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Ok so I just finished Fifty Shades of Grey and I need to discuss it with anybody else who has as well. I've heard all the hubbub about it so I decided I could put down The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo for a few days since I've already seen the movie and try something new.

I honestly believe books like this are what cause problems between men and women. Are all women really this nuts? I know my Fiancé can be a little kooky but this girl in the story is out of her ******** mind. If we were all so insecure nothing would ever get done.

I've got quite a bit more to vent here but don't even know where to begin.

For the record, yes I'm a male, and yes I read this book not knowing fully what it was about.

Would love to discuss the book with you..im on the same page as you...so much to vent about..so little time...lol
 
NDA signing

hi, i have finished the first book but i dont remember the part where Ana agrees to sign the NDA...in what chapter is that? Does she actually signs it or just agrees by word?
 
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