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Fifty shades of grey contract book1/26/2024 ![]() ![]() Its innocence and freshness are reflected in its heroine, whose litany of "holy crap!" and "holy Moses", once you can get over the Sarah Palinness of it, are rather endearing. To a huge extent, though, this is the novel's charm. There's a 21-year-old American college student in 2011 who's never used the internet or received an email, and two chapters are given over to a legal contract explaining how all the really naughty stuff – fisting, caning, sleeping with other people, and so on – won't actually be happening. The fact that a middle-aged woman has written it is also often evident. More of a Frankenstein's monster than a Dracula, the book is similarly stitched together – the flirtatious emails are straight from Bridget Jones Christian's apartment is, bizarrely, Frasier Crane's Seattle penthouse, floor-length windows, grand piano and all (I kept expecting Eddie to arrive and do something amusing on the expensive furniture) the glider ride is from The Thomas Crown Affair and the sex owes a debt to Anne Rice – but the Sleeping Beauty novels rather than the vamps. He plays the piano, doesn't like to be touched, loves opera, orders Ana everything from the breakfast menu, makes the rules, doesn't want a relationship, buys her new clothes, stays in a huge suite in a posh hotel and so on. ![]() ![]() It turns out that Christian Grey isn't a moony vampire at all he is, in fact, the grey-templed, uber-rich and powerful businessman played by Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. ![]()
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