Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Fifty Shades Trilogy - my take


So I'm finally done with "A million Shades of fuckery"...
What a read!
I've actually been done with it for a while now. Just wasn't able to write the promised review earlier due to a giant withdraw cloud that I had come face to face with upon my finishing the books.
I think the above revelation is on its own a review of some sort... What do you think?

The books are brilliant! All three of them. Beyond brilliant actually. Well-written, witty, tense, exciting, soapy... Definitely a great read! Though I could do without the type of kinkiness that makes one's skin crawl.

Anyway, First Shades of Grey is amazing. Of course it has to be amazing. After all it is the first one written of the trilogy. Once you flip through the first page, you are gone. Irreversibly hooked! You won't put the bloody book back down.
By the time you get to the last page, your every emotion is so incensed and itching for more.
Fifty Shades Darker follows. Though as great as Fifty Shades of Grey, unfortunately not as amazing. Why so? The kinkiness in Grey's *red room of pain* has reached a nauseating level in the book. The title Fifty Shades Darker puts a lot into perspective. A lot of darkness. No pun intended there. As much as I love a bit of kinky now and then, canes and cuffs don't rock my sock.
Fifty Shades Free is my favourite! The last one of the three. The very best of them all! Less of kinky, more of vanilla. "Exactly how I like to make and take my cake". Lol

All in all, I loved the Trilogy! I loved the characters. I loved the 500 + pages in each book. I loved the sound of my fingers flipping though the pages. I loved the smell of the pages. And most excitingly, I fell in love with the mercurial Christian Grey. Yes, eventually! Heels-over-head!!! Unbelievably so.

I am not watching the movie when it comes out. That'll be more or less like watching pornography. And I'm not so much into watching pornography. It's too raw for my show, it cloys my joy. Besides, I don't think I'll be a very happy human being if anything comes and messes with the faces of the characters I've cooked in my head of Christian Grey, Ana Steele, Taylor, Jack Hyde, Ray Steele, Katie Kavanagh Etc.

****Now reading Tete-a-Tete (The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre)



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