Fifty Shades of Grey rewrite slated by critics

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-33191130

Fifty Shades of Grey rewrite savaged by critics

Critics have savaged EL James's rewrite of her erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey, with one calling the writing "bad throughout" and another accusing it of "rapturous self-regard".
Grey re-tells the events of James's 2011 original from the perspective of its antagonist, Christian Grey.

The book, writes the Evening Standard's David Sexton, "loyally repeats every line [and] every excruciating email".
According to the Telegraph, the result is "as sexy as a misery memoir".

"How often do Ana's cheeks flush pink?" writes Bryony Gordon in her one-star review. "How many times does she make him feel ten feet tall?
"And he really should go and see someone about all that prickling his scalp does."

James's original told of the steamy relationship between Grey, a millionaire businessmen with an interest in bondage and sadism, and literature student Anastasia Steele from the latter's perspective.
According to the author, "thousands of readers" had requested to hear Christian's point of view since the book's publication.

The new book was published on 18 June, as that is the date of the character's birthday in Fifty Shades and the two sequels that followed.
Writing in The Guardian, chick-lit author Jenny Colgan described the original novel as "a rather fun and fairly mild portrait of a woman's sexual fantasy".

In her opinion, though, "it is almost impossible to read Grey and not assume the narrator is going to end up in jail".
"Instead of light-hearted and repetitive mild S&M, the 'love affair' is now the twisted work of an utter psychopath," she continues.

(continued, no pleasing some people...)

[Svartalf]

well, shit is shit no matter what went into it

[JimC]

She ought to be tied up and flogged...


Wait...

[Xamonas Chegwé]

The bit I don't get is where they actually quite liked (in the right light) a few parts of some chapters of extracts of the original. Guess that's why they get the big bucks as critics - they see worth where all I can see is bruised-purple prose.

[GeneticJen]

They could rerelease the film too, wouldn't that be wonderful?

[Animavore]

I read the first chapter for free on line of her first book. It was the worse piece of trash I've ever had the misfortune to clap eyes on. Worse than a Left Behind book. I can't believe this woman has gotten away for so long with her crimes against literature.

Don't get me wrong, it's not that I hate her, but I would unplug her life-support system just because I need the socket to charge my phone.

[Svartalf]

Thank A-vore, that was eloquently put... not that I'm ever going to waste my time on such trash.