two hands - that's double exasperation.

Yes I'm reading these inane books for some reason

Welcome to the landing page for my reading and discussion of the Fifty Shades trilogy. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, I'm about ten years late to the party. That's fine. I'm Doing This For Me ← masochistic. In any case, true literature is timeless. So is truly bad literature.

The publishing process and origins of the Fifty Shades trilogy are pretty interesting, although I'm sure a lot of you guys (potentially everyone on the planet) has heard about them before. To very quickly sum things up, Fifty Shades was initially a popular AU Twilight fanfic called Master of the Universe published on FF.net, and was later retooled into an original work when author E.L. James was contacted by a publisher following the fic's enormous success. As a (not particularly prolific) fanfic author and Guy Interested In BDSM (did you think I was being sarcastic up there?), the series has always been fairly morbidly fascinating to me, but I'd never bothered to crack open the books themselves, in large part because I didn't want to shell out perfectly good money on what I was under the impression was trash literature.

Recently a friend of mine introduced me to a video essay series about the adaptation of the Fifty Shades trilogy for the screen, and I was so enthralled that I was inspired to read the books myself, which at the time of writing I have not finished doing. They are, as I expected, almost hypnotically terrible.

The links on the left will take you to each book's respective first chapter. Once you're there, each book will have the chapters listed in that area for quicker navigation. I don't think each entry in the trilogy merits its own index page, although I may change this line of thinking later.