Fifty Shades Trilogy

I agree, the analysis is very good.

I am currently reading this supposed master piece and 365 pages in I am wondering what all the fan fare is about! I have been uninspired to continue reading this book, much less two more.

I loved the fifty shades of gray books read them all in 4days. I wish I had a room like he has in his house would be a fantasy come true.

I have the whole collection of the "50 Shades of Grey" and wow, its awesome. I'm into the second book and it turns me on every time.

Fozgirl, I'm glad that you are enjoying the Fifty Shades books. I hope that you get some good ideas for play.

They aren't meant to be hard core. They're meant to be entertaining to the vanilla world, not porn. I equate some of these reviews to an adult watching a cartoon movie. Of course cartoons aren't entertaining to most adults, but to the target audience they're great. Same thing with 50 Shades. They aren't overly entertaining to kinksters, but to the targeted audience (vanilla) they are great.

I haven't finished three of the books. But I think Mr Grey is the new version of Mr Right here, right ladies?

I scream inside of my heart when it mentions " twitchy palm" and " misbehaving". He made it so sexy and fun :p

Which is your favorite part ?

Laters, Babe.

xxxx

I haven't read the first part yet. My wife doesn't want the books in our home.

We live in a retirement complex with over 600 residents. Women out number men by at least 10 to 1. A lot of the residents that I talk with have read the books. Most women tut-tut and say how awful the first book is. But, when they started reading, they just couldn't put the book down.

Have read all three, found them to be a nice way to possibly introduce someone to BDSM. They were stimulating to read.

As someone who has lived their entire adult life in D/s relationships, I cannot stress enough how horrible these books are. A man must master himself before he masters another. This guy is forever running off to his shrink to try and figure himself out. He is a very weak man. By his own admission he is "fifty shades of f@cked up". And he admits that he has chosen girls who look like his dead crack whore mother so he can beat the snot out of them in his "playroom" as a way of getting back at her. That is not sadism - that is ABUSE. It bothers me when young women read this crap and find it sexy and want it in their own lives. Same with Twilight when Edward beats the holy hell out of Bella on their honeymoon night and then when he refuses to have sex with her again, she says "It doesn't hurt much". WHAT? Basically these books boil down to 1) She bites her lip 2) He has four erections 3) They go shopping/hang gliding/sailing (insert your favorite yuppie activity here). Yes they were horribly written. Read the hilarious review on Amazon where the woman figured out how many times she bites her lip, he draws his mouth in a line, she bats her eyes, etc. The only things that really rang true were her wearing the same outfit every day (even though she has a personal shopper at Neiman Marcus) - a grey pencil skirt - symbolic for the way he smothers her and keeps her under his control. And her waking up every morning hot and smothered by his body. For a woman who claims she doesn't have a submissive bone in her body, she can barely pee alone. If he isn't following her, stalking her, e mailing her, calling her etc,. he has a professional staff to do it for him. Read The Loving Dominant. Learn from Mentor what a true D/s relationship is about because this ain't it. This started out as Twilight fan fiction. It is garbage. This relationship should have lasted about 2 weeks in real life before she got tired of his crap and left him. Oh wait - but he is a billionaire who owns every mode of transportation except for his own cho cho train and he is trying to fix world hunger. So that makes him a good guy. And of course, everybody's college roommate ends up married to your husband's brother so you can all make babies and live happily ever after, right? And then you have sex with your seven month pregnant wife who informs you that your fetus daughter likes sex because she kicks and dances while Daddy pounds on Mommy's cervix and he yells into her hoo-ha "NO SEX UNTIL YOU ARE THIRTY YOUNG LADY" when he started banging Mommy when she was 21. Yeah, in the mind of a 15 year old. They suck. It is sadistic to make someone read them. I'd rather have the butt plug any day. Young people - if you are going to practice BDSM, learn it from the proper sources. Save your money and get yourself a copy of The Loving Dominant immediately. And while we are at it, skip that Beauty crap Anne Rice put out unless you enjoy three books of endless spankings, itching powder in the va-jay-jay and anal insertions and no relationship between the characters at all. x0x0x Persi

DaddyShadow - you bring up The Secretary - another pet peeve of mine. This is a young woman who is a self abuser. She cuts. The lawyer doesn't do anything to help her, to repair her self-esteem, he simply replaces one form of abuse with another and they live happily ever after. That is NOT what a good Dom does. A good Dom is a teacher, a guide, his job is to take a submissive and put her in the best possible light. As he gains her trust, he seeks to correct behaviors and make her a better woman. The lawyer did none of that. All she ends up doing is making typing errors on purpose so she will get spanked instead of cutting herself. Same pain - different source. There is no growth in her as a person. She is still a woman with zero self esteem who requires pain - not for sexual gratification but rather for personal vindication. Not good. Not at all healthy D/s.

I've read the first book in the series and have bought the other 2 and have started reading the 2nd book. I find the story line interesting but it is hard to believe that their type of realtionship is realistic in the Dom / Sub. I think I will buy the other books mentioned above as I find the BDSM world interesting. Interestign in the sense that it's easy to say that one will submit to another man but it can also be difficult to do when one is independant and speks her mind. I'm keen to explore more. Yes these books aren't very well written given the gramatical errors etc

Story line? There is no story line in the first book.. She bites her lip, he has four erections and they go shopping/hang gliding/sailing (fill in the blank) He is restrictive and smothering (as symbolized by the tight gray pencil skirt and her waking up hot and feeling smothered every morning with him draped over her body) That's really about it. The rest don't get much better. A lot of fantasy travel, extravagant shopping, and him spending his time stalking her, visiting her at work, calling her, e mailing her and hiring people to follow her. Not too controlling and co-dependent. LOL. She can barely pee along. In fact there is actually a point where he tries to follow her into the bathroom. As Kahil Gibran so eloquently put it - Let there be spaces in your togetherness. This stalker in the genre of Edward Cullen offers her no spaces. Did you know this was originally posted on a Twilight fan fiction site? Hence the Seattle setting.

The Loving Dominant, Screw the Roses Send Me the Thorns are the place to start if you are serious about learning. In fact there is a free download for Screw the Roses - http://www.filestube.com/s/screw+the+roses+send+me+the+thorns+pdf Most of us in the lifestyle refer to the author of The Loving Dominant as Mentor. Mentor teaches us how a true relationship should work.

You are right when you say that this is not a realistic picture of a D/s relationship and that's because he is not a Dominant and she by her own admission doesn't have a submissive bone in her body. You are also right when you say that it is hard for an independent woman to submit. But the fact is that it takes strength to submit to another. And the reason you haven't done that yet is because you haven't found "the one" to submit to. Most of us who are submissive are very dominant women in the workplace and in our day to day worlds. However when we come home, we find freedom in surrendering to another. That is the key. And the true submissive woman tends to be exactly that, dominant in her day to day world until she finds someone special - someone who can dominate her. Hold out for that special person. Your submission is a precious gift that is not given lightly. When the right person comes along, it is very easy to find oneself on one's knees offering the gift of their surrender. A true Dominant never takes - he only receives what is offered to him. And if he is the right one, he will happily receive what you offer. That is how a true D/s relationship works. And that takes more than a weekend which is about how long Christian knows Ana before he tries to get her to sign a contract.. That is where these books start to lose their credibility. Read those two books I recommend. You will be surprised at how natural a true D/s relationship can be.

I ve just started to read it. there are too

I read all 3 books and even if the plot is bad,I still was squirming in my undies from the descriptions of their sexual encounters.I called them "wet panty alerts".lol

Fifty shades of dull sorry but i found it very badly written there are so many better erotic novels out there folks

I think there supposed to be more a peek though the door for the vanilla folks out there at the kink side of things rather than the full on kinks some of us like here so its always going to get a bashing 😃

Quite the story and i am still wondering how many could be put in the roles that they have in the books

The Fifty Shades Trilogy is an immature collection of writing based on the Twilight vampire books. E. L. James' pen name was Snowqueen's Icedragon. The heroine in the book is portrayed as a whiny, clumsy virgin who doesn't even own a computer nor a cell phone in college. Really? And her "Dom" is a stalker. I would take a step back and re-evaluate any "Master's" recommendation to read these books as any reference of true BDSM, which they are not. That would be a red flag to me.

I would agree that The Loving Dominant and Screw the Roses Send Me the Thorns are great reads for accurate BDSM information.

I see nothing wrong with The Secretary. James Spader's character does indeed ask his emotionally troubled secretary to "never cut again". Cutting is after all very self-destructive behavior. What's wrong with spanking? It might not be your choice of fetish, but it does release endorphins that excite and soothe. In D/s relationships, there are many forms of sadism, masochism or both that are safe, sane, and consensual to both the Dominant and submissive. Hard limits are respected and there is mutual trust and a deep intimate bond that can last a lifetime which is healthy and quite loving.

I thought the book was great.

This set of books were read by a couple of women in my office, and one of them read the series twice in order to pick up what she may have missed the first time round, and so I thought I'd have a look at them to see what they found so readable and rivetting.

I have to admit that I did not read the books as I would a novel; I did not even buy one, but have looked at specific bits/paragraphs and found the standard of English absolutely appalling. I can only presume that it was an insight into a world most people never knew existed and would perhaps like to have taken part in perhaps with their partners, but as for quality literature, to my mind, they certainly were not.

Very good stories. I have read the whole trilogy and I really enjoyed it. Romance and HOT sex. I love vanilla sex but would love to try the other flavours too. I promise I'll be good mistress, if not, I'll accept a spanking

Nearly finished the first book and the other two are on order for delivery tomorrow! Engrossed completely. Finding that I relate with Ana, her predicament and how she manages to turn the tables on Christian sometimes, her bravery and yet naivety too at times.

There is just so much in that book (so far) that I find co-incidental. However I am not into the BDSM scene but the plot/storyline is, to me at least, something of a challenge on a personal level. I say too much ...... I shut up ... lol.

Well worth the read in my opinion, if you have not done so. Looking forward to Darker and Freed!!!

I bought my, admittedly mostly vanilla, wife a copy of the first installment as a little escapism to read while we sipped cocktails on the beach on the family summer vacation. I did so somewhat tongue in cheek but was curious to see what reaction I got.

She devoured it and ordered the other 2 when we got home.

More interestingly, it woke her sexuality from a marriage/work/parenting/life-induced state of semi consciousness. The transformation has been phenomenal and we are both grateful. Over the years I've assembled an extensive collection of sex toys. 50 Shades is without doubt the best value for money one I've ever purchased. Albeit somewhat unintentionally.

As others have pointed out, the book is not aimed at the hardcore BDSM community. Rather, directly at the heart of suburbia. By all accounts it hit the bullseye of its target and, for that, fair play to the author and the marketing machine out in front of her.

I have read all 3, and liked them very much. They are not much for BDSM. As the books mention repeatedly, it's "kinky fuckery" and it's good

Fifty shades is average BDSM.

I haven´t read the trilogy but I have read several pages at book stores to get an initial idea what they are about. And indeed, they don´t look very special or titillating as erotic novels go ... but ... it is a success and it is a sort of introduction to bdsm 101 or something of the sort and it does at least touch upon some aspects of sexuality that are different from the dominant, normative narrative that so many unimaginative and restrictive people would otherwise have people follow ...

So, maybe not accurate as portraying a bdsm lifestyle, but it perhaps sets people to dreaming and imagining about better and different possibilities ...