![]() The story-originally written by James as Twilight fan fiction-follows the burgeoning relationship between a college graduate, Ana (Anastasia) Steele, and a late 20s business mogul, Christian Grey. Fifty Shades of Grey is truly one of the worst books I have ever read. So when Entertainment Weekly featured it on its April 6 th cover, I had to know: why was this book getting so much attention? Many other novels had focused on similar proclivities, what was so special about this book that it would cross over into mainstream success and even become a New York Times bestseller? After reading it, I still am perplexed. But then I began to hear friends and co-workers-who aren’t usually Harlequinites-talking about it. Deemed “mommy porn” by some and “anti-feminist” by others, it was obvious I wasn’t the target audience. The book, dabbling heavily in BDSM (bondage & discipline and sadism & masochism), by E. Thinking it was some new young adult book, I investigated. ![]() ![]() Oddly enough, the first time I heard about Fifty Shades of Grey was in a tweet from Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan on March 3.
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