Taking One For The Team: I’m Reading Fifty Shades of Grey…
Tuesday, April 3, 2012Posted in: BDSM Sucks, Book commentary, Books that make me want to go Aaaarrrrghh
Tags:BDSM, EL James, Fifty Shades of Grey
This is all Katiebab’s fault. This is one book I could have happily ignored for the rest of my life. Sigh.
I’m trying to read Fifty Shades of Grey with an open mind, but damn, it’s hard, because A, I hate BDSM, B, I hate assholic controlling alpha males, and C, I hate stupid heroines.
Oh and just to piss me off even more, I see that the Kindle version of Fifty is more expensive than the paperback version. Grrrrr…
Anybody else going to be reading this with me? Go on, do it, do, it, do it!
Wish me luck…
(By the way, is it wrong that this is one book I don’t mind illegally passing to others? Just sayin’…)
Portia Da Costa
April 3
7:42 am
I keep thinking I really ought to read this book, so I can hold a properly informed opinion of it rather than judging it on the basis of hearsay. But I haven’t steeled myself to be able to buy it yet. Just can’t click that button…
Am very much looking forward to your review though! 🙂
Amarinda Jones
April 3
9:44 am
Nah, can’t see me reading it. I want to slap men like that…mind you, they’d probably like that.
Mireya
April 3
12:33 pm
No thanks, Joey W. Hill has me spoiled, I can barely stomach BDSM written by other people.
Las
April 3
1:58 pm
Sorry Karen, you’re on your own. If all the passages I’ve read weren’t enough to keep me away, knowing that it’s Twilight fanfiction would do it. Not because it’s fanfiction, but because it’s Twilight.
Jeannie S.
April 3
2:04 pm
I have it on my waitlist on paperbackswap – I want to read it and judge it for myself, but I don’t want to pay for it.
Becky H.
April 3
6:29 pm
I guess I’m taking one for the team too because I have it and Master of the Universe on my Nook to read. I didn’t get through Twilight so I’ll see how far I get with these.
AztecLady
April 3
9:04 pm
Meh.
I have never been interested in reading the ‘inspiration’ (Twilight et all), I can’t be arsed to exert myself to read these.
Sorry, Karen, you are on your own here.
Willaful
April 3
10:41 pm
I have it, but am having trouble working up the motivation… though I mightily enjoyed the parody at GoodReads.
Ann Bruce
April 3
10:48 pm
Nope. Not interested in masochism. Reading the first chapter of Twilight was bad enough. Can’t imagine reading fan fic based on it.
Karen Scott
April 4
7:02 am
You are all unusually cruel people. *flounces off*
Amarinda Jones
April 4
9:14 am
People don’t flounce enough any more…maybe we should…
Becky H.
April 4
12:42 pm
I should be done with it soon so I’ll probably post a review on my blog.
Lori
April 4
7:26 pm
I didn’t get through 2 pages of Twilight. You’d have to drug me to read 50.
Katiebabs
April 6
1:17 am
Muah.