Fifty Shades Of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

· Fifty Shades Of Grey Series Book 1 · Sourcebooks, Inc.
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"And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."

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 startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey's secrets and explores her own dark desires.

  • An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
  • More than 165 Million Copies Sold Worldwide
  • One of 100 Great Reads in the Great American Read
  • 133 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List

This book is intended for mature audiences.

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4.4
35.5K reviews
A Google user
April 30, 2012
I personally found many parts of the book to be very cliche and some of the sex scenes to be very stereotypical housewife porno. It felt like the story was only what the typical reader wanted it to be; safe but still arousing. After reading through so many constant sex scenes, I was almost left feeling sore and raped myself... I found myself skipping over the heated parts, just to get to the real storyline, like his troubled past. Its a complex story, but I'm holding hopes that the author ties it together nicely in the end. I only give it a 3 because afterall, at the end of the book, I was still interested.
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A Google user
June 24, 2012
Its a good story line but very poorly written. I can see why so many people who have hardly ever read a book before enjoy it because its dumbed down and easy to read. But for me i found it really hard to read through such poor writing! I wanted to enjoy it but could not. What bothered me the most was it was set in North America yet most of the characters were very fond of the authors point of origin England and their dialect was forced because thats how she thinks Americans sound like.
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Pika chu
December 8, 2013
I hope people don't consider these books to be any indication of the BDSM community. All this book does is showcase a severely abusive relationship between a scared unsure girl and a manipulative power-hungry wretch. These books are gross, the writing is bad, and the author did NO research on ANY of the the important aspects. (Like all the "BDSM" she claims.) It's not right. It's terrible. I hope young girls arent reading these.
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About the author

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. She followed with the #1 New York Times bestseller The Mister in 2019. In 2021, she released the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and international bestseller Freed, the third novel in the As Told by Christian trilogy. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.E L James has been recognized as one of Time Magazine's Most Influential People in the World and Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year. Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Darker was longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018.E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their beloved dogs in the leafy suburbs of West London.

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