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In reply to the discussion: Fifty Shades of Grey depicts RAPE and has been criticized by BDSM advocates [View all]one_voice
(20,043 posts)there is nothing over the top or offensive. Her post was definitely not hide worthy.
I've read all three books and agree with her assessment; trashy, trashy, trashy and awful writing. Nothing more.
The only reason I read them was I was at an 'adult party' with a bunch of other women that were talking about it and I was curious as to what all the fuss was about. I would never encourage anyone to read them...UNLESS you want to debate the book. In fact I started an OP on it here http://www.democraticunderground.com/11396974 two years ago.
These books are no worse than anything written by Laurell K Hamilton, J.R. Ward, Sylvia Day and so on.
as a side note you'll see LadyHawk posted in my thread 2 years ago and had the same opinion of the book(s).