Book: Fifty Shades of Grey

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Book description: 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 resits 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.

Picture and description taken from goodreads.com

What I thought of the book:

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The first thing that I'll say about this book is that I don't understand at all what the whole giant fuss was about. If I hadn't been offered this book for free I had no plans of reading it at all but since someone sent me all three books for nothing I didn't see any reason to not read them.
I did find it somewhat entertaining to read on some levels but not very many. The characters are very frustrating; Ana cannot make her mind up about what she wants and is very needy and Christian is just so uptight, arrogant and controlling. I see people saying all the time about how much they would love to have someone like Christian but I just think they must be crazy if they want to be told what to do like that all day long.
There has been a lot of talk about this book being made into a film and I'm not sure if that's actually going to happen or not but either way I'm glad I got to read the book before that happens because it leaves your mind open to portray the characters however you see them and a lot of the rumored actors named to play those characters are just nothing like I imagine.
I will be reading the next two books but only because I have them already and I want to see how much more unrealistic it can get (seriously how many times have these two slept together already in such a short time... and if she was a virgin that's just not how it would have all played out in real life) and how much more controlling Christian will become. It wasn't the worst book I've ever read but there's certainly room for improvement, especially since there's such a huge buzz around this book that I just don't understand.

Book read July 14th 2012.