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The Life and Mind of DamnBlackHeart
This is to help me stay actively writing. So expect to see rants, tips on writing, thoughts on subjects, me complaining of boredom, reviews, anime, movies, video games, conventions, tv shows and whatever life throws at me.
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I kept hearing hype about a book, Fifty Shades of Grey that’s making bestseller in the US, UK and all around the world. It also set the record as the fastest-selling paperback of all time surpassing the Harry Potter series. So of course when I heard about that it made me interested in seeing, in this case reading what’s so great about it.
I only read the first chapter and skim through the rest of it and I don’t like it, at all. It’s trash. I can’t get over how that book has manage to stir up so much love/fans for it. Hell, this book is getting a movie because it’s the next big thing with people. I have several issues with it and I’m not going to list them all, but here’s a few.
It’s badly written. I don’t read erotica but the few that I’ve read were written way better then that book. Even if it wasn’t erotica there are other books with way better writing, unique plots and whatnot that deserve recognition. That truly deserve to be bestsellers in New York Times.
It’s disappointing to know that Fifty Shades of Grey use to be a Twilight fanfiction. I don’t like Twilight because that series had a lot of problems itself, so to learn that story was once a Twilight fanfiction made me concern. I don’t hate on fanfiction because it’s fun and another way to help better your writing skills, all the while submerging yourself into your favorite fandom. But the problem with fanfiction is that there’s an overwhelming amount of poorly written and poorly thought out stories. There’s so much horrible stories that the excellently written stories become overlooked. I just don’t get why people go after the stereotype, cliche, poorly written crap.
Anyway, I get that the author rewrote it so that it’s not similar to Twilight anymore, but that’s the problem. She should have threw it out and start over fresh. I believe that because she didn’t do that, it’s a big reason why it lacks depth and realism. By starting everything over it would have help her be a better writer, it would put her into the mindset of creativity and trying to write a masterpiece.
I don’t know about other people but I have a separate mindset when it comes to writing fanfiction and original works. With original works I’m a much more serious and I do thoroughly research on subjects I’m not familiar with and I would stress over parts to make sure it’s good. Plus, I would be putting it through editors to make sure that the characters, the situations, plot and whatever else is believable and written well. With fanfiction I’m more relax and I focus on making it sure it’s written well, that the characters are in characters and that everything makes sense with the canon of whatever I’m writing for. I’m basically not stressing over it as much or as serious when it’s comes to my original works, but I still try my best to make sure it’s decent.
That’s why I find it unrealistic and lacking depth. Ana and Christian don’t sound like their ages, and where they’re from. I get that James is a British writer but when dealing with things you don’t know it’s common sense to research.
I dislike Ana. She lacks depth and is possibly worst then Bella from Twilight. I just can’t stand how ‘weak’ she seems and one-sided she is. Her inner dialogue is the most obnoxious thing I’ve ever read as well. Oh, and another thing I mean by unrealistic is that I don’t get how they can constantly have an orgasm over and over and over?
I don’t like it and I don’t see how it can be enjoyable (or a turn on) or escapism for people. It’s not that great. I miss how books use to be good and how the media focused on the material and not the popularity of it. How they pay attention to details, if it was overall written well, if the story was unique, if their characters were well developed and all that.
 DamnBlackHeart · Fri Jun 22, 2012 @ 07:38pm · 0 Comments |
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