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tacocat  ·  3518 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Bad books?

50 Shades of Grey is awful in a way that no amount of hyperbole can explain

http://www.beutlerink.com/blog/50-shades-of-grey-quotes-visualized/

One reviewer said that no reasonable person could read it and come to the conclusion that the author's first language is English.





kazren  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My theory became that the writer is a desperate housewife.

There was one point near the beginning of the book where I just had to put it down from laughter because she said her orgasm was like "the spins cycles of the laundry machine". That is not sexy nor does it make sense.

I'm ESL and I definitely write better.

tacocat  ·  3489 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's not a theory it's a fact. Look up EL James on Wikipedia. She was apparently ridiculed in Twilight fan fiction circles too but I read that as an anecdote on reddit from people who said they used to write that stuff