Title: Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
Author: E. L. James
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2011
514 pages
It’s neither as good nor as bad as more extreme reviews might suggest. Much time is spent on contractual disputes, lending it a legalistic air similar to the first segment of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Less is spent on sexual expression, which is more vanilla than the narrative’s titillation would have you think and written in a classic medium-core pornographic style. The characters make no sense to me; as others have noted, the avowedly clumsy virgin sex goddess and the formal yet crude no-good-for-you unfathomable rich guy aren’t compelling. What’s interesting here are the aspects of the story that amplify or warp Twilight. Here, the female protagonist more readily asserts her power and the male is more clearly rigid and in need of lightening up. Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qZLrC7Ot4
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqmofb_saturday-night-live-fifty-shades-of-grey_shortfilms
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