I never read the book. I tried out of curiosity, to see what the big deal was, and I didn’t get past the first few pages. I went with Dave Barry’s summary instead. At least he can write:
Barry: “So the plot is: They have sex, she wants to smooch, he wants to flog, there’s a bunch of talking about this, they have sex again, she again wants to smooch, he again wants to flog, there’s a bunch more talking about this, and so on for several hundred word-filled pages.”
More Barry: “Finally, Anastasia decides to let Christian flog her, to see what it would be like. So he takes a belt and flogs her on the butt. Then, in the dramatic climax to the story, the moment we have been building up to, Anastasia comes to a shocking, life-changing realization, which nobody could have foreseen in a million years: Getting flogged on the butt hurts. Yes! It’s painful! Anastasia does not like it . . . So she breaks up with him.”
I don’t know how true that is to the book, but at least it was entertaining.
http://time.com/3030375/dave-barry-50-shades-of-grey/
Love it! Never read it either, and cannot say I even tried, but we do like Dave Barry, and love his Clif Notes version ;)
Thanks FRiend :)
Tatt
Yeah, I didn’t read the book, just a few reviews, and I remember one was making fun of the naive girl for just signing this contract with all this kinky stuff spelled out on it.