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50 Shades of Grey - kinda curious on everyone's thoughts
Sakabelle:
He's really unattractive honestly. He's just super moody like you said and the author tries way too hard to make him seem deep and intellectual, and so he just comes off as a bunch of hipster douchey character traits without a personality. Like that scene when they were sitting there having tea? Ugh.
Oh, also she can't write the way North Americans speak. There was one point (maybe it was that same coffee shop scene.) where I was imagining the characters speaking with accents cause they were using European lingo. Then I remembered they were in the states and I was like "well this is awkward sounding."
Like I said I sort of wish I could get into this book so I could gush about it with everyone who seems to love it so much but making fun of it is fun too! lol
RokofAges75:
^ That's where an editor would have come in handy. You can't blame her for not getting the dialogue just right, being British and writing about American characters, but someone should have helped her fix that before it was published. Another reason not to self-publish!
Sakabelle:
I didn't realize she had no one look it over! Wow, everything makes so much more sense now lol. Either way, it still pulled me out of the story a bit. Not that I was overly immersed in it to begin with :P
RokofAges75:
From what I heard, she originally went the ebook route, like we've talked about in one of these threads lately, so I don't know if there was any outside editing involved. If there was, sounds like they didn't do a very good job LOL.
Purpura Lipstick:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on June 13, 2012, 10:34:45 PM ---^ That's where an editor would have come in handy. You can't blame her for not getting the dialogue just right, being British and writing about American characters, but someone should have helped her fix that before it was published. Another reason not to self-publish!
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Or just write the story in an area you are familiar with. It obviously isn't bothering too many people.
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