Grey discussion

I totally agree and sorry that I wasted my money on it. The author simply cut and pasted text from the previous books and told us nothing new. I think that we were all anticipating learning a lot about Christian's childhood and what made him develop into what he did but the author told us VERY little new information and nothing terribly important.
One word = DISAPPOINTING !!

Well the book reads very smoothly... And for me it's been about 2 years that I read the first book. So while starting Grey, I was surprised of the things I already forgot... It's not a "that amazing book", but I will finish reading it :)

not what i expected really, the book was just a reminder of what you read on the first book.

Betsy wrote: "I totally agree and sorry that I wasted my money on it. The author simply cut and pasted text from the previous books and told us nothing new. I think that we were all anticipating learning a lot a..."
Amen!

I have read about 200 other books since I read Grey and I still cannot find another set of books that give me as good a feeling as the Fifty Shades of Grey books. I love reading the story from the man's perspective. Men think in such a different way to women and Grey shows that beautifully.

I also rated it with one star. I was very disappointed. E.L. James ruined Christian's character for me with this book. I expected a whole lot more from such a strong male hero yet vulnerable character that Christian is within the first three books.

I'm still puzzled by E.L. James' approach to this book. I did expect some scenes to be the same and was expecting this; however, I wanted more on what Christian was like when he was conducting business and running Grey Enterprises. His relationships with his parents, brother and sister, his staff and what he is really like away from Anna. How his dinner really went with Elena. This type of thing, what really happened and their conversation. We got such a small glimpse with Ana's story.

All of the people in his life and their real reactions to this new relationship in his life when Anna isn't around. What was going on outside of Anna's version. We never got this from this book. How did Elliott and Kate really react behind the scenes to this budding romance? Just as an example.

Instead we are given an insight into the mind of a teenager, if this is what she was going for that Christian was like a teenager...well to me it didn't jive with his character development within the first three books. Ana saves him, heals him and he is a Harvard educated and successful business man. It went with his back story but not what was happening with his interaction with Ana within the three books.

I think she blew a golden opportunity with the crap she did give us. This book was exactly that...crap. A copy and paste version of the first book.

Sharon, You have read my mind and put into words my total disappointment in this book and you have gone so much further because you superbly explained and gave excellent examples of what this book SHOULD have been and pointed a shameful finger at an author who really did copy and paste from her other successful books and gave us nothing new.... as you said, CRAP !

Betsy wrote: "Sharon, You have read my mind and put into words my total disappointment in this book and you have gone so much further because you superbly explained and gave excellent examples of what this book ..."

Hi Betsy, I just wrote what I felt. Thanks for your comment.

I totally disagree.
This was not a cut and paste job.
There are things in Grey that aren't in the other books.
We DO see his interaction with people at work -- especially with Roz. We see his interactions with Taylor and Mrs. Jones. He is closed off person, but begins to open up as Ana enters his life. He and Elliot do things together in Grey. He has an affectionate relationship with his sister. He has a complicated relationship with Elena that becomes more tense as his relationship with Ana deepens.
This is in Grey. Along with new scenes with how he coped (or didn't) when Ana left him, how he couldn't get her out of his mind once he met her, his talk with Elena that sent him across the country to be with Ana, etc.
There are definitely things I wish were in it that aren't -- more about his time with Elena when she was "tutoring" him and how it changed him, affected him. But, overall, I was hooked from the first page to the last. I found it fascinating how he gradually came to accept that he could change and that he WANTED to change. He wanted to be with Ana, no matter what it took to do so. That he was, in fact, in love with her.

Deborah wrote: "I totally disagree.
This was not a cut and paste job.
There are things in Grey that aren't in the other books.
We DO see his interaction with people at work -- especially with Roz. We see his inte..."
I agree, I loved seeing things from his perspective. Since reading Grey I look for books that actually give the thoughts and feelings from the man's perspective as well as the woman's, it adds to the enjoyment for me.

Zena wrote: "Deborah wrote: "I totally disagree.
This was not a cut and paste job.
There are things in Grey that aren't in the other books.
We DO see his interaction with people at work -- especially with Roz...."

I know what you mean. I like getting both perspectives. I've always provided both the hero and heroine's POVs in all the novels I've written.

I think I found it because I was curious why the book was so popular or why many people were talking about it and why basically every book store had it on display.