Comments on: The only review for Fifty Shades of Grey you’ll ever need

By: Kristy

Kristy — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:55:54 +0000

I’m also one of those people who started reading the series because I wanted to know what the uproar was all about. The review I gave my sister was very similar to what Katrina said, including the terms trite and dangerous. In the 1st book, and presumably the others, the idea that a woman can change an abusive man if she could just be the one who makes him want to be a different person runs so deep that it’s scary.

I don’t recall seeing it in her first review (perhaps it’s in the others?) but I also thought that Christian was a terribly stereotyped image of the “damaged” people who participate in bdsm/power play. It’s not an area I have personal experience in (my info comes from hearing more knowledgable people speak of the subject), but it does seem like sex-negative people/organizations want to label participants as having had to come from abusive backgrounds. Anyone have thoughts on that?

And as far as the “Inner Goddess” thing goes, I didn’t read that as a euphemism for her pussy. It read to me like a combination of her libido and her supposed sexually empowered side emerging. lol Katrina’s interpretation may give me another reason to cringe and roll my eyes as I finish the last 2 books. Yes, I’m going all the way, with the same critical eye with which I read the 1st.

By: Cecilia W Yu

Cecilia W Yu — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:01:16 +0000

Lol. Yes Katrina’s review is very cool.
But I likened to atrocity of this to another political infighting between Putin v. Hugo and you can decide who will be “pounded”…..way “down there”…..Oh my!

http://ceciliayu.com/2012/07/23/venezuela-50-shades-of-grey/

Some female comedian from Scotland…had other ideas of what to do with those “down there” beads…btw….profanities alert…as I said…she is Scottish! (joke)

By: Alison Tyler

Alison Tyler — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:07:29 +0000

I’m a little tipsy, but this made me cry with laughter:

“Yes, there’s a sex scene involving a butt plug, and yes, it’s both hilarious and disturbing, if for nothing else but E.L. James’ refusal to use the word “ass”. Ana is always using the words ‘behind’ and ‘bottom’ to describe her other “down there”, and those words do not mesh well with the concept of an anal sex toy. I’m sorry, but hearing about how Christian inserted a butt plug into Ana’s ‘bottom’ made me both uncomfortable and highly amused.”

Trying to write anal sex w/o saying ass has got to be one of the most humorous concepts of all time.

XXX,
Alison

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:41:31 +0000

I was one of those people who read 50 Shades as a fanfiction called Master of the Universe. I was appalled by the badly written epic and it wasn’t three books then, it was one long tedious crapfest, cheesy as hell and the Twilight fans lapped it up because James, known as Icy back then to the fans, had Bella and Edward aka Ana and Christian getting it on long before Stephenie Meyer had them doing the horizontal tango in the last book Breaking Dawn. It actually took me a few days to realise that Inner Goddess was another name for the pussy etc. Lumsden’s reviews are perfect and everyone should read them, especially the brainless apparently sex starved housewives who have gone out and bought the book. Ironically they didn’t really need to spend their money making James richer than dirt, they could have actually Googled Master of the Universe on the net and downloaded the free version. I did eventually read the fanfiction all the way through, but there were many points where I actually lost the will to live.

By: C. J. Czelling

C. J. Czelling — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:31:19 +0000

I’m confused. I didn’t read it because I don’t like ghost stories.

By: BiLikesSciFi

BiLikesSciFi — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:13:00 +0000

I read these books more to find out what the big deal was. By chapter 6 of book one I was ready to stab both of the main characters in the brain just to end all of our pain.

This set of reviews is fantastic!

By: Angela R Sargenti

Angela R Sargenti — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:29:52 +0000

Inner Goddess? I thought I’d heard all the purple prose words for pussy they could possibly come up with. I think I’ll ram my eyes out with butter knives before I ever sit down to read that book.