It's a trilogy Tiphany. so the 2nd one is called "50 Shades Darker" and the third is "50 Shades Freed", and she captures the first person thoughts of the main character a college stiudent pretty well.  It is sort of a modern "Lady Chatterly's Lover". That in the book is more compelling than the sex scenes for me,  but the sex is interesting because of her first impressions of it because she's a virgin when it starts. It reads pretty fast. Give it a shot, and tell us what you think. It made NY Times Best Seller Fiction  combined print and ebooks #1 pretty quick where it's been for 16 weeks.  LOL the local public libraries won't carry it; welcome to Georgia. It hit Amazon as a best seller really quickly and it didn't do a big ad campaign; it's sales skyrocketed by word of mouth.

Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/combined-print-and-e-book-fiction/list.html

Discreetly Digital, Erotic Novel Sets American Women Abuzz
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/business/media/an-erotic-novel-50-shades-of-grey-goes-viral-with-women.html?pagewanted=all

Libraries Debate Stocking ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Trilogy
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/books/fifty-shades-of-grey-by-e-l-james-in-demand-at-libraries.html?pagewanted=all

JeffEng16

I have read all three books.

The writing style is not the best, IMHO.  The subject matter is interesting, but nothing off the charts.

Steamy?  Yes...  A masterpiece?  Far from it...

Call it Hunger Games (or even Twilight) for adults

It is well written for the most part. A bit unrealistic at some points, like when Ana's very first time giving head is an "A" according to Grey.

The parts that I have found very interesting are the contract and her progression into the relationship.

I was all set on reading it and the sequels when two things happened; my ATF who is into being submissive panned it and my 85 year old parents talked about reading it.  Too many conflicting images floating through my head at that point!!

If you are jntrerested in erotic stories try this website, literotica.com.  It is free and has gazillions of stories that are categorized.  There are one page shorts and multiple chapter books posted as each chapter is written.