# Fifty Shades of Grey \[spoilers?\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518 "2012-03-22T17:35:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/41 "2012-08-11T17:28:09Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > My inner goddess laughed at the horrible writing. > > It did lead to that Gilbert Gottfried reading, which makes it all worthwhile though. I’m reading it now, and my freaking gorsh, does this woman ever overwrite! She reports every thought, every moment, every gesture, every tone, and uses the words “Crap” and “holy crap” on pretty much every other page. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/42 "2012-08-11T18:45:52Z")
> [@wonderlust](#): > > My 60-year-old hairdresser literally _became a reader and bought a Kindle_ because of this series! I’ll never be able to look her in the eye again. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/43 "2012-08-11T18:56:36Z")
> [@DoperChic](#): > > For all of you who say that there is so much better erotica out there, mind sharing? I have found one other similar series but it’s so much worse it makes 50 shades look like classic literature. There are plenty of romance novels with extremely explicit, sometimes kinky sex, that are also well written. For example, Susan Johnson is a pretty well known name in erotic romance. Find some here: [http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/searchReviews.pl](http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/searchReviews.pl) (search by selecting “burning” under the category “sensuality” and “A” under Grade) In short stories, any “Best American Erotica” anthology edited By Susie Bright is a safe bet. Mitzi Szereto is another fairly reliable anthology editor. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/45 "2012-09-27T04:59:27Z")
> [@DoperChic](#): > > For all of you who say that there is so much better erotica out there, mind sharing? I have found one other similar series but it’s so much worse it makes 50 shades look like classic literature. I’m enjoying the webcomic _Sunstone_ ([Stjepan-Sejic - Professional, Digital Artist | DeviantArt](http://shiniez.deviantart.com/gallery/)), which is where I heard about this novel. It’s about a lesbian couple that partakes in BDSM, and unlike Fifty Shades of Grey doesn’t make the dom sound like a serial killer. > [@Hello\_Again](#): > > There are plenty of romance novels with extremely explicit, sometimes kinky sex, that are also well written. For example, Susan Johnson is a pretty well known name in erotic romance. Find some here: > [http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/searchReviews.pl](http://www.likesbooks.com/cgi-bin/searchReviews.pl) > (search by selecting “burning” under the category “sensuality” and “A” under Grade) Aww, you can search for male/male romance, but not female/female romance. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/47 "2012-10-09T09:08:44Z")
[http://redlemonade.blogspot.ie/2012/09/fifty-shades-of-tedious-fuckery-vol-12.html](http://redlemonade.blogspot.ie/2012/09/fifty-shades-of-tedious-fuckery-vol-12.html) A blog that tells you all you need to about “50 Shades of Grey”. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/48 "2012-10-09T13:14:44Z")
There’s one thing I do like about this series, apart from the recaps and parodies: it’s given me something to write for NaNoWriMo. An anti-Fifty Shades of Grey, about an ex-Seabee who dates a man who isn’t an abusive stalker, has kinky sex because she enjoys it and whose short involvement with a less admirable lover (who may or may not be named Chris) ends with a headbutt. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/49 "2012-10-09T16:11:22Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > I’m enjoying the webcomic _Sunstone_ ([Stjepan-Sejic - Professional, Digital Artist | DeviantArt](http://shiniez.deviantart.com/gallery/)), which is where I heard about this novel. It’s about a lesbian couple that partakes in BDSM, and unlike Fifty Shades of Grey doesn’t make the dom sound like a serial killer. I’ll add a big recommendation for Sunstone as a quality story as well. It does a great job of capturing the characters as people, with their hesitations, their eagerness, their joy, their loneliness, their moments of doubt, etc. They are not just cardboard cutouts doing the sexy fantasy deeds. (For the record, this is where Fifty Shades shines as well.) However, not everyone may find the lesbianism all that attractive, even though the artwork is not explicit (while making very clear what’s going on sexually at the same time. And the quality of the art is also topnotch. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518/50 "2012-10-09T16:14:46Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > [http://redlemonade.blogspot.ie/2012/09/fifty-shades-of-tedious-fuckery-vol-12.html](http://redlemonade.blogspot.ie/2012/09/fifty-shades-of-tedious-fuckery-vol-12.html) > > A blog that tells you all you need to about “50 Shades of Grey”. Why yes, in the same sense that the works of George Bernard Shaw will tell you all you need to know about human beings, except of course that they come in two sexes, and have sex. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fifty-shades-of-grey-spoilers/616518.md?page=2)