An affront to the art of novel writing! Whoever calls
'Fifty Shades of Grey' a novel does a disservice to the creativity and writing prowess that goes into the making of a novel. 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a poorly written, loosely strung collection of episodes coined by someone lacking creativity. The fact that the book has featued on the NYT for twenty five weeks is a reflection on the poor taste of a sexually starved non-reading public that is too busy living a virtual life. Unfortunately, the romance of going out on a real date cannot be replicated by browsing/preying on social networking sites, and when even that fails to excite, that's when a 'virtually' living public turns to the likes of
E.L James' 'Fifty Shades of Grey', "an instruction manual for an abusive individual to sexually torture a vulnerable young woman". As if this one book wasn't enough, E.L James churned out two books to follow to make it the highest selling trilogy! It may be that Ms. James' trifold outpourings satisfy an inherent need within the public, but it gets outrageous when those outpourings feature as best selling 'novels' on premier reading lists! To make matters worse,
Hollywood is now putting together the "most coveted adaptation in years" of James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" ! Perhaps this is to provide for differentiated learning of the 'instruction manual to sexually torture vulnerable women'. It gets even better when Ms. James diatribe, Fifty Shades of Grey, inspires "licensed lingerie and fragrance lines" that top models are vying to become the face for. Eroticism in Literature can and has been classy; the likes of D. H Lawrence, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Nabokov have left an indelible mark with their literary exploits in the realm of erotica. However, I shudder to think that
E.L. James' may soon be contending for a place in that category!
I picked up James' book to read on a flight and never finished it. It sat there on my desk for weeks, perhaps mocking me on my inability to write about it! I did not know what to say about it! There was a part of me that did not want to write about 'Fifty Shades of Grey' because that would mean giving it credibilty by recognizing its existence. However, I did relent, and only because I want to vent the anger and outrage I experienced while reading this book.
I apologize to those who read this post for categorizing it under the label 'books'.
2 comments:
ah!! I Me My, thank you so much for writing this review about this piece of 'non-book' stuff; I usually feel bad about criticizing something I am not very familiar with, but after all the hype about this horrible pseudo-book, the other day I read a couple of pages at Costco, yep! of all places, I couldn't believe the BIG mountain of copies they had there of the trilogy... so, I read the couple of pages and I felt really bad for the hundreds, I guess thousands, of people, mostly women, who are attracted to this book... That shows how little public knows about literature, sad, indeed, great title to your post and thank you! for having the courage to talk about this non-book, your friend blogger here, agrees with you!
I just finished lashing out about this "book" as well. I really want a refund, but I don't know how to refund nook books. Wish I had read your review before I bought it.
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