50 Shades of Grey "Trilogy" SPOILER

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YES, this is a total spoiler alert for books 2 and 3 as discussed/requested in THIS THREAD

DO NOT read any post below if you do not want to know how it "ends".  Fair warning

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So, I finished books 2 and 3 this weekend.

I personally enjoyed the books. It's fiction. It's light. It was a fast read.
And I had to read all 3 of them because to me, reading just the first one was like only watching 1/3 of a movie.

I have books 2 and 3 all wrapped into one book in my mind, so this isn't a book by book play. Some of this is out of order too.

-Revelations of Christian's childhood rears its head and he tells Anastasia everything.
-His mom died. He was stuck in the house with her dead body for 4 days when he was 4 years old. He spent a couple of months in a foster home in Detroit, where he's from. His parents adopted him, then moved to Seattle.
-His mistress from his teenage days introduced him to the whole dom/sub thing. He was always in trouble as a teen. Fighting and alcohol. He channeled his fighting and drinking into sex with her.
-One of Christian's ex subs goes nuts and holds Kate at gunpoint in her apartment. Apparantly she's jealous and unstable. All of Christians ex subs looks like his mother. So does Anastasia.
-Anastasia moves in with Christian, but never agrees to be his sub. She makes him feel "love". He never forces her into he red room, but she requests it at times and enjoys it except for once. She makes him stop and he does.
-They end up getting married. Go on a honeymoon. Kate and Christian's brother start dating. Mia and Kates brother start flirting with each other.
-Anastasia's boss tries to blackmail her into sleeping with him. She racks him in the junk and Christian beats him and fires him (he ended up buying the company she worked for). She is promoted to his job.
Boss goes nuts and rigs Christian's plane. It catches fire, but he's able to land it. Boss also sets fire to Christian's server room. He also breaks into Christian's house to try and kidnap Anastasia, but she had defied Christian when he was out of town and went out for drinks with Kate that night so she wasn't home.. Security caught him and he goes to jail. Christian ramps up security for his entire family.
-Christian and Anastasia buy another house for them to grow in. It gets remodeled and is done at the end of the story.
-Anastasia's dad gets into a bad car crash that puts him in the hospital for a bit
-Anastasia finds out she's pregnant
-Anastasia tells Christian and he goes nuts. He leaves for the night and they are in their biggest fight ever
-Anastasia goes to work and gets a call from her ex boss. He has kidnapped Mia and wants 5 million dollars. He says to tell no one.
-Anastasia rushes home, changes, goes to bank and tries to withdraw 5Mil. They call Christian and Kate can't tell him why she's taking the money out so she tells him he's leaving her.
-Anastasia is taken to ex bosses hideout. She gets kicked and beat up, but she brought a gun with her and shoots him. She blacks out as soon as Christian (who had her phone bugged with a tracker) and security arrive, she blacks out
-Turns out ex boss lived in foster care with Christian for those 2 months and was mad because he could have had Christian's life had he been chosen.
-They are madly in love
-They move into new house
-Have a baby boy
-And she's pregnant with a little girl when baby boy is 2
-Christian is a great father and husband. They're madly in love still. They still both a enjoy a little "kinky fuckery"
-Kate and Christian's brother marry and have a baby

The book ends from Christians POV (narration) from the first time he met Anastasia during her interview and again when he went to the hardware store.

Then the author ends it with:

That's all......for now

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Blech. The sex scenes had better be good to drag you through all that soap?

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Oh my, that's a lotta drama, thanks for sharing! I've been watching Empire & I keep questioning why I am watching it. This reminds me of that show...a whole lotta soap opera type drama LOL. Nice escapism :-)

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I didn't mind any of it. There was so much more--but not really relevant to ending that needed to be shared.
Escapism. Yes. That's it!

I was fired up yesterday. I was flipping thru radio stations on my way to work and this talk show was saying how F'd up this whole thing was because if he had been ugly, fat and smelled bad this would have never made the big screen. That if an ugly, fat and smelly guy and raped a woman and had sex with her when she was drunk, he would be in jail and not being glorified. He sounded SO SO SO jealous. It was just so crazy. Callers were calling in saying how this book is corrupting the thought process of proper love for young women. That this movie is objectifying women. That this movie is glorifying mental and physical abuse against women. I didn't have time to call into the show to ask them what universe they lived in. Because none of them were explaining WHY they thought that. I have a feeling NONE of the people that were commenting had read all 3 books. DID I MISS SOMETHING?

1. The dude in the book never raped anyone
2. The dude in the book never slept with her while she was drunk

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And just to clarify, I think if people REALLY read into the book to see what was going on mentally between the two characters, there WAS a lesson to young (and older) women.

THE KEY TO A MARRIAGE IS COMMUNICATION.

They talked. About everything. They found that they couldn't keep their thoughts bottled up and that they had to communicate with each other to understand each other.

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Liz, as I said in the other thread, I haven't read it and don't intend to, but my guess is that you're absolutely right.

People read about something and then they adopt it as their own experience/opinion. I see it often in political discussions and it drives me crazy. If they were going to take calls on it on a talk show, someone who actually read the book should have been there to respond.

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As I mentioned I hated it for the wishy washiness of the characters. The beyond poor writing. The way certain things/aspects are portrayed.

For me personally I will NEVER love or probably even like a book with namby pamby characters. I want strong characters. They can be strong mentally, physically or both but the BIGGEST issue I had was the whole mental mind game furk I felt was played throughout this book.

I realize different people will take away different things. I get that what someone else interprets may be completely different from someone else. For me I saw way too much mental mind games which to me equates to a form of abuse.


Christian to me was obviously a little mentally out there when it came to commitments and how he could handle things. So instead of getting his own $hit together he drags in someone else who is not overly mentally strong either. Personally if I didn't know the ages of the two of them it seemed to me how two 13 year olds would act....probably sans some of the sexual stuff.

IDK I was raised with alot of mental mind games. Conditional love and such. I would rather have the ever loving sheet kicked out of me every day than that. Bruises fade, physical pain is fleeting but mental $hit lasts a long time. And that's how I felt Christian was.

He was so insecure and so he always acted like a jacktard, Ana is always left to question his love for her blah blah. Waaaaayyy to much childish drama and as I said mental mind games for me.

Just my 2¢.

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Forget all the kinky stuff, the whole picking girls that look like your dead mother is enough to creep me out LOL

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Feb 20, 2015 2:26:05 GMT peek said:

Forget all the kinky stuff, the whole picking girls that look like your dead mother is enough to creep me out LOL

Right?

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In a sick and twisted way, it all comes together.

The only time he felt "loved" was when he was with his subs. Deep down, he lived his mother. When she was dead, he took care of her. She was cold. He tried to keep her warm with a blanket.