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I have not done book reviews anymore right after I earned my degree but after being able to finish E.L James' NOVEL novel Fifty Shades Trilogy I feel the urge to write one.
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There are two reasons why I was so intrigued with this novel before. First, this college friend of mine, who currently works in Dubai, had been raving so much about these books that it got me so curious. Second, when I opened my mail I accidentally read an article saying that there is a 70% possibility that the main role of this novel will be played by the Vampire Diaries' actor Damon Salvatore in the person of Ian Somerhalder who happened to be my BIG TIME crush, so I wanted to see what the hype was all about and decided to start reading.
Of course buying a book of which I do not know what is it about (since I no longer do background check for books because the spark of my "reading" lifestyle had long been died) is never my forte. Until such time one of my closest friend way back from college, Dennis, and I were reunited in seminar introduced the luxury an eBook can give to me. Apparently, I downloaded the first book hastily but sad to say that the application I used only caters the first book which is Fifty Shades of Grey. Right there and then ( though I was in the middle of our seminar) I started reading but when I wanted to stop myself I just couldn't resist myself from reading for the book is undeniably a page-turner. I was quite worried when I was about to finish the book knowing that there's only one book in wattpad. Fortunately,I was able to buy my first set, thanks to this friend from Dubai for reserving me one set in Cebu where her sister works (connections really at times are helpful ^^). And in no greater than 3 weeks I finished the trilogy.
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| Me, LJ, Sheen, Keziah, Deborah, Jane @ Misamis Union High School, McDonald's, and Gaisano Southwing |
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| (c) Myki A. |
One very significant and precious gift a teacher can earn from his/her profession is the relationship and friendship he/she can have from thestudents which strengthens my favorite line "A teacher can never tell where his influence stops" by Henry Adams. Just last Dec. 21,2012 ( the doomsday as they said), these bunch of students, who are now in college, Keziah with her BEE, Myki, LJ, Sheen, Deborah, who surprised us with the arrival of Jane with her gifts for us straight from Cebu, who've been so close to me came and celebrated a post-birthday lunch and surprised me with a gift.
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| And olaaa! I got my 2nd set. ;) |
Reviewing back the book, let me start off by saying that this trilogy is risque, to say it the least, but I definitely understand why people describes it as “mommy porn”. There are a lot of erotic scenes in the books, described in every single detail. As an avid reader, I just tried to look at its lighter side.
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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.
EXQUISITE and NOVEL are the words I can describe with the love-story of Christian and Anastasia after reading. However there are always two sides of a coin. The novel's label which is "mommy porn" makes it a little bit again, as I've said risque, which definitely needs mature audience and parental guidance to those who are not. The lovers' (well, to make it nice ) passionate scenes are disgusting and/or fascinating depending on how a reader will deal with them. If you can’t handle steamy bedroom scenes, these definitely aren’t for you. Repetition of words and phrases is also evident in the story, e.g "defy" over 40 times “crap” 101 times, “jeez” 81 times and she “blushes” or “flushes” 125 times which I found irritating at times. But despite of these, I'm more of seeing the novel in the positive way. I don't know why but probably the reason behind is how their against-all-odds love has been so admiring.
I undeniably like the books, well, the story itself and I’m glad I got the chance of reading them. Once you finally get to know Christian Grey (who in reality does not exist) a 27 year old self-made billionaire who speaks fluent French, plays the piano, flies his own helicopter and glider, athletic, musically inclined, extremely handsome, tall,stalker, control-freak, megalomaniac, priapic, all his fifty shades, why he is the way he is,and of course the best lover on the planet , you'll surely get to understand me why. He's indeed a real package, except his shady part, hahahahah! He's just the man of my dreams. He may never be the man of hearts and flowers but he definitely drives me crazy.And for the second time around, I fell in love with this another fictional character right next to Legolas (Orlando Bloom) of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings. ^^
Now, who can tell me that I regretted reading such?
Over all, I salute EL James' way of writing the novel in not so common way. It also ended the way I want it to be. It has a complete closure so no questions are left unanswered. Everyone is happy and healed. Again, it touches on women's need for a happy ending, or at least my wish for it. On the other hand, I personally believe that it's only the bad books which have good ending but if a book is at it's good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end, just as how I feel upon knowing that I did finish the book. :(
At the moment, all I'm doing is to wait for the movie. Laters, Baby!^^
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