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I never made it past the first 100 or so pages of the first book, and the only reason that I own the trilogy is that I collect first-edition, first-run, signed books, and E.L. James happened to be present, on tour when I was at a local bookstore, so I bought the first one, and then the second and third when she came back.

Two reasons I don't like the book(s): One, it's set in Seattle, a place that E.L. James knew only from Google Earth and Wikipedia and whatever other secondhand information she could glean from whatever sources she gleaned them. She never actually set foot in Seattle before publishing the first book, and that really grates on me; there are so many little subtle things missing from her description of the city (or present in her description, that don't exist) that it made my head hurt. Two, as previously mentioned by other posters, the writing is...well, it's not bad, but I found it difficult to get into the female protagonist's head, maybe because I was bothered by the aforementioned descriptions of Seattle, I don't know, I just couldn't do it.



I tried, I really tried to like the books, skimming all three, but I just couldn't. Kind of like the "Twilight" series, I just get hung up on the details, or lack thereof, in the description of the locations involved, because I've lived somewhere in either the Lower Mainland or Seattle my entire life.