I didn’t get Fifty Shades of Grey. I understand that the guy was some kind of sex obsessed guy, separating sex from emotion and all that. I was completely misunderstanding the business of the guy having the girl sign a contract that they were to be sexually involved together. Does this sort of thing really happen with real people? Somebody told me that there really are such people who do this.
I found it a bit charming that the girl was utterly dazzled by the man's accoutrements (the cars, the building, the staff, the status, the wealth, the aura, etc.) and couldn't imagine that he could be interested in her.
From a man's point of view (and having had such accoutrements myself) I could well understand why he would be interested in her and in many women, whose accessories or lack of accessories are incidental to what's fascinating.
But my wife, who reads all the time, told me that this is a standard formula for popular chick novels, and the girl was not interesting enough to keep me reading after the first few chapters. I thought the man was one screwed up dude. I got bored, put it down, and never picked it up again.