标题: Fifty Shades of Grey - 书评 [打印本页] 作者: 飞雪 时间: 2013-6-8 21:46 标题: Fifty Shades of Grey - 书评 When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is sta ...
I really don't like writing bad reviews. I admire people who have the courage to put pen to paper and expose themselves to the whole world, especially those writing erotica. Having just finished this book, however, I feel compelled to write a review.
About half way through the book, I looked up the author to see if she was a teenager. I really did because the characters are out of a 16 year old's fantasy. The main male character is a billionaire (not a millionaire but a billionaire) who speaks fluent French, is basically a concert level pianist, is a fully trained pilot, is athletic, drop dead gorgeous, tall, built perfectly with an enormous penis, and the best lover on the planet. In addition, he's not only self made but is using his money to combat world hunger. Oh yeah, and all of this at the ripe old age of 26! And on top of that, he's never working. Every second is spent having sex or texting and emailing the female character. His billions seem to have just come about by magic. It seriously feels like 2 teenage girls got together and decided to create their "dream man" and came up with Christian Grey.
Then come the sex scenes. The first one is tolerable but as she goes on, they become so unbelievable that it becomes more laughable than erotic. She orgasms at the drop of a hat. He says her name and she orgasms. He simply touches her and she orgasms. It seems that she's climaxing on every page.
Then there's the writing. If you take out the parts where the female character is blushing or chewing her lips, the book will be down to about 50 pages. Almost on every single page, there is a whole section devoted to her blushing, chewing her lips or wondering "Jeez" about something or another. Then there's the use of "shades of". He's "fifty shades of @#$%% up," "she turned 7 shades of crimson," "he's ten shades of x,y, and z." Seriously?
The writing is just not up to par, the characters are unbelievable, and the sex verges on the comical. I don't know what happens in the remaining books and I do not intend to read them to find out. But given the maturity level of the first book, I imagine that they get married, have 2 perfect children, cure world hunger, and live happily ever after while riding into the sunset, as the female character climaxes on her horse causing her to chew her bottom lip and blush fifty shades of crimson. Jeez! 作者: 渔樵 时间: 2014-3-9 23:37
When I finished 95% of the novel <fifty shades of Grey>, I still believe it is some kind of a Cinderella-meet-prince love story, though in a distorted adult version---- I can’t understand how the Ana (or the author) can maintain the state of libido excitement all through the book, for her and Grey’s insatiable sex appetite almost fed me up after half journey of the book. I can’t help wondering why the Vigor taken by the author is of such long half-life? Or the book is finished in several hours? And while reaching 95% of the story path, I also wonder how the novel should end in the wake of repetitive carnal enjoyment, and I ever doubt it won’t be too bad to kill the two in the glide ecstasy!
Ergo it is undeniable that the end is the highlight of the whole story, which made it a barely acceptable novel, for the annihilation end is always more understandable, acceptable, and forgivable.
Comparatively, all the other books I have read are too orthodoxy, or this book is a heretics. As I cannot understand how Ana could tolerate Grey so much, or made so much unprincipled concession, for this reason I cannot shed due pity to her final loss.
And the book failed to hold water in many aspects, such as why Ana is able to beguile such a handsome, successful , and with profound sex experience zillionaire? Obviously not because she is a virgin, and the only plausible explanation is the privilege “I” entitle! And the question what lead Grey to such an sadistic keep haunting in reader’s mind, with no answer till the end.
The art decoration of Hardy, Phaethon-driving-the–solar-car led to no where, or just shallow decorations, even not as impressive as the jet, the mansion in Seattle. While from the story I can feel what zillionaire life is like in the author’s mind----if I can comment, I would like to switch Grey’s music form the source of ipod to “Westlake speaker”, the audio speakers I have at my home 作者: dawnfi 时间: 2014-3-22 16:11
最近书店堆满了fifty shades系列 传说中大卖的充斥着SM内容的三部曲小说 我激动万分 周五拎了一本回家 花了我99大洋 用了昨天一个宝贵的周六翻完 现在充斥着大喊“坑爹”的情绪
这书最大的优点就是翻完五百多页速度飞快且不用查字典 给我这种英文半吊子选手带来无比的成就感
究其原因就是其实就那么几个词儿几个短语翻过来调过去的用
举个栗子 书中起码出现了七、八次"he/she cocks his head to one side" 其他各种"I groan" "he moans"就更不用说了 读的时候真心替这位英国作家的词汇量着急