Fifty Shades of Grey ... ok im male i read it

[Mr Cairo]

after hearing the mothers at the school banging on about it ... Intriguing , Mysterious , Intoxicating etc etc etc and then noticing my wife was reading it i thought what the hell and this morning started on her copy

Is it a female thing them because frankly its just crap and makes me wonder if i am massivly misunderstanding the wants and needs of 90% of the women i know who all seem to think this book is the unputdownable (it isnt)

I am almost 99.9% sure that if i treated my wife like this guy treats women i would be introduced to Mr swift kick in the balls and his pal Mr heres my divorce paper

I really just dont get what the hype is ...

[Pinky and Perky are SciFi]

The title brings to mind a military paint colour chart. Farcebook is full of it. Kindle reviews seem to come on the side of 1-2 stars when I last looked.

Of interest to me? Nah....

By the way, get the readers to imagine Mr Grey as having the body of an adonis and the face and voice of Joe Pasquale...the hype will die down very quickly.

[glunark]

Stop trying to figure out how women think and the rest of your life will go a lot smoother.

[runalong]

erm at our boring team meeting two blokes fessed up to reading it

And I'm sure men can buy bad books too!!

I suspect based on the discussion the old adage that sex sells is at work - as nearly most reviews say it's poor then I won't be reading but credit to the marketing department

[Perdide]

C'mon, with a title like that they had to spice it up somehow!

[MrShears]

Sums it up far better than I could http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/a...-2012061931006

[Boo]

I'd never heard of it but there are some really amusing Amazon reviews. I don't think I'll be bothering.

[hammard]

This page has been helpful. I have been able to use it to convince my wife not to get into it.

[Richard L]

My wife has read bits of it.

'It's interesting in a way. There are things about it that are good, maybe not the way its written cos its terrible, you can't get away from it. But if you take it for the crap it is it is interesting enough. But everything people complain and hate about it is true. There is a germ of a good story but you have to bring some Domestos with you.'

I was horrified. It sold out in Waterstones.

Caroline again. 'Whoever did the marketing for it is brilliant. They've got all these 'quotes' that aren't from reviews at all, but somehow they've managed to hook people.'

Frankly I'm not impressed my wife fell for such shit.

'It is just women's rubbish. Categorise and move on.'

[runalong]

erm I think men can read the same rubbish book too