While I realize this is an old thread..I felt I needed to respond to yours and others posting on here who feel they can critique as well as openly mock a book they haven't bothered to read.

I just started on book one and let me tell you guys something. I'm impressed!! E L James is a woman who KNOWS how to write a book about a very sensitive subject for most women, in a way that makes it hard to put the book down! She takes the subject of BDSM and masterfully weaves a romance/erotic story all through it. She uses both humor and life's little antidotes to break up the sexual tension...mercifully so I might add!

Christian Grey, a self made multi-millionaire tycoon, is a man of many dark and mysterious layers, but it is this multi-layer personality of his that causes him to take some sort of "refuge" in the world of BDSM. He is your typical Alpha type male who knows what women want in the bedroom and is learning through his latest conquest how to give what women want on a much more deeper level..the heart.

I'm only about half way through book one and I'm very impressed with this author's ability to address such a "taboo" subject through a romance/erotica novel. I have a feeling that if you men could put aside your egos long enough to read the first few chapters, I guarantee you too will have a difficult time putting it down! And you might even learn a few things about women and I'm not JUST talking about the bedroom! Although you might like the erotica part of the book in that you will get plenty of perspective from both the woman's AND the man's point of view;)