Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey has gained a lot of attention nowadays. The raunchy pornography material depicted in the novels draws the attention. There is rumored to have a movie coming out portraying the first book or the series. To add to the rumor mill the thoughts of what actors will be playing the characters is always discussed. But what is not discussed is the quality of the writing in the books by E.L James.

The raunchy writings are not disturbing then are written in a tasteful manner. The depictions are somewhat easy to visualize. It is by all means an adult novel, but I would not go as far as banning it from libraries.

The series was made for Twilight fans. Some of the similarities can make a Twilight fan say “Come On!” The story is based in Washington state, come on. The main character is a pale dark-haired pretty girl, not a beautiful girl, come on. There is something mysterious about the male lead too that the main character has to figure out, come on.

The one big problem with this series is the horrible dialogue. No one in the real world would ever talk like the way the characters do in the novels. It just doesn’t seem real and it breaks the readers commitment to the writing. The dialogue takes away from the scenes depicted in the books. For example in Fifty Shades of Grey, the main characters are talking to each other about what the presence of Mr. Grey does to her. Grey starts “What’s not fair,” Anastasia replies “How you disarm people, women, me” “do I disarm you” “All the time” “It’s just looks, Anastasia” “No, Christian its more than that” “ You disarm me totally, Miss Steele. Your innocence. It cuts through all the crap.”

No one would really talk like this saying you disarm me, it just seems forced and fake.

Also in this book Grey lays out a contract for Steele to abide by, the contract is six pages long of just totally faked rules that seem so far-fetched from the S and M community.

During the novel the two characters email each other by the emails are like text messages and they don’t make sense. For example in Fifty Shades Darker Anastasia Steele, the main character emails Mr. Grey about a bar she is going to. She titles the email: You’ll fit right in, she dates and times it June 10 2011, 17:36 to Christian Grey and it says, “We are going to a bar called Fifty’s… the rich seam of humor that I could mine from this is endless…I look forward to seeing you there, Mr. Grey… A. X.” He replies back like a text message subject: Hazards, dates and times it June 10 2011, 17:38 to Anastasia Steele and it says, “Mining is a very, very dangerous occupation” signed Christian Grey CEO, Grey Enterprise Holdings, Inc.

It is a little annoying to read these emails that are supposed to be two minutes apart. They just take up the page.

Danielle