With the kids back at school this week I decided it was high time I took a break from the screen, jumped on the mummy porn band wagon and hit the books for a little R & R.
Fifty Shades of Grey almost lost me on the very first page with this line...
"I roll my eyes in exasperation and gaze at the pale, brown haired girl with blue eyes too big for her face staring back at me."
Oh FFS, eyes too big for your face? What are you, a frog?
But everyone on facebook said to keep going. First 40 pages absolute shite. Marginally improved since then. We'll see.
I think I just want to get through it quickly so I can sink my teeth into Jump! Big fat Jilly Cooper novels are like crack to me. The original Made In Chelsea.
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I've just started Fifty Shades of Grey too. So far, not seeing what all the fuss is about either....
The writing in the '50 shades' series is pretty bad but I suppose that's not what most people are buying it for! ;) You do get sucked into the storyline though wondering what will happen next. It's trash but it's kind of addictive! xo K
I don't have any intention on reading these books. I am not a prude but I here everything you have written too and love a good read not one that is badly written.
It takes until page 97 for the writer to find her 'voice' and then the writing becomes a lot better.
I'm halfway through. Don't care about the sex. The witty banter between the two when they're not doing it, is very clever. I like a book that makes me laugh.
Have to say, I totally agree with you about Fifty Shades! Hope you find something better fast!
Who doesn't love a good bit of Jilly Cooper?! "Plunge in like a joyous otter" is one of the many lines of gold! :)
I have to see what I am missing out on maybe :)
i've heard alot of peoples sex lives changed for the better since reading that. don't know if i ever will i struggle to get time to read super food ideas
Chapter 13 in the second book is where it gets "good." I didn't care too much about the sex either after the first 25 times. They had sex more times in three books than I have had in 9 years of marriage.
The writing is so bad at times it makes me wonder how those book got puplished. And the sex is just ridiculous...like let's get serious for a second. if there are really people out there screwing that much, they need to get a life...who has the time?? but the relationship that forms, and their interaction (when she's not acting like a 16 year old girl) is what hooks you. i'll have to check out Jump!
Hmmm...we make time to screw almost that much :D Of course we've only be together for 2 years but I'm thinking we're making up for sexless marriages prior to meeting each other. That...and Irishman is just WAY BEYOND Christian Grey in rocking my world. LMAO
So...tell me about this Jump. Good stuff? I need to get it, yes?
I haven't read a Jilly Cooper in ages. Time to get to the library again.
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