A few months ago, I recall a certain book trending on twitter. The title was pretty interesting and reminded me of the book-turned-movie, 500 Days of Summer. I really thought that book was about a very, very long summer -- but it obviously wasn't I like how some authors come up with pretty witty book titles -- titles that may mean like this but it means something else, then you’d be like ‘Ohhh, I get it.’
Anyway, the title of the book that trended was none another than Fifty Shades of Grey.
That weekend, my eldest cousin -- she’s 22 -- approached me and told me about the book. “That’s what I’m reading right now,” she whispered to me. Our aunt who knew about a lot of things was nearby sitting and watching TV. “Fifty Shades? I heard it’s a good book,” I lied, in order to keep the conversation going. “Don’t you read that. It’s not good for you,” my aunt butted in and my cousin’s eyes widened, signalling me to stop talking about it. “What…? It’s not that I’ve read it. I just heard about it, that’s all,” I explained, and my cousin smirked. She even showed me the pdf file of the trilogy on her iPhone, and I eventually lost interest.
The Fifty Shades rave didn't stop from there. My classmates started talking about it, how dreamy Christian Grey was and all that. That made me want to know about the book. I decided to google it. I am known as that girl who googles things she doesn’t know about. Isn’t that Google’s purpose anyway?
Going back, I found out that the author, EL James, wrote two more sequels, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed respectively. It was highly noted that it was erotic, and being a teenager who knows too much for her age, I kinda didn’t want to read it.
I think that this trilogy might be disturbing for me (BDSM, anyone?). I plan on reading it because my friends are so engrossed to it, and I'm feeling left out. Curiosity kills the cat, they say, but I don't mind. Curiosity leads us to roads -- big roads -- and in the future once we become successful we'll be thanking our curiosity for that.
I just hope that Fifty Shades of Grey wouldn't be too harsh or detailed. And I hope it wouldn't be too dirty. I also hope there will be less mentions on sex toys, because as comfortable I am with talking about sex, I still get shivers when I hear about sex toys. Finally, I hope Fifty Shades would exceed my expectations -- in a good way.
The Fifty Shades rave didn't stop from there. My classmates started talking about it, how dreamy Christian Grey was and all that. That made me want to know about the book. I decided to google it. I am known as that girl who googles things she doesn’t know about. Isn’t that Google’s purpose anyway?
Going back, I found out that the author, EL James, wrote two more sequels, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed respectively. It was highly noted that it was erotic, and being a teenager who knows too much for her age, I kinda didn’t want to read it.
I think that this trilogy might be disturbing for me (BDSM, anyone?). I plan on reading it because my friends are so engrossed to it, and I'm feeling left out. Curiosity kills the cat, they say, but I don't mind. Curiosity leads us to roads -- big roads -- and in the future once we become successful we'll be thanking our curiosity for that.
I just hope that Fifty Shades of Grey wouldn't be too harsh or detailed. And I hope it wouldn't be too dirty. I also hope there will be less mentions on sex toys, because as comfortable I am with talking about sex, I still get shivers when I hear about sex toys. Finally, I hope Fifty Shades would exceed my expectations -- in a good way.
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