I read it because my SO suggested it because I was writing my own set of stories and was stuck on my own plot line and how to continue it. I grew to love the SOG Trilogy and read it more times than I can count but not just for the BDSM which I know only a scratch about but the personna of Anna. She was introduced as a self-conscious insecure woman in the beginning who was actually a strong and secure one even by the end of the first book. As insecure as she was and as pretty as she felt herself not to be she later became to be aware how pretty and sexy she was because of the man who loved her with every fiber of his being.

The Anna first introduced to the series is the one I very much related to and after becoming more knowledgable, aware and confident of herself and capabilities is much the same as I see myself now.

Yes I find the series stimulating sexually and erotically but it's the maturity of both Christian and Anna I relate to and how their differences strengthen one another. The BDSM in the book is a turn-on, the excitement that makes it popular and controversial. I'm sure BDSM Is much different than portrayed in the book, you don't take the local news at face value, why should I take what little is expressed here about BDSM as fact?

don't care to read it lol

I fell in love with these books. I couldn't put them down.

Hate it. Avoid it. It shows an unhealthy BDSM relationship. Which would be fine if it were advertised as such. But it's not. The story doesn't at all dwell on the fact that this is an unhealthy sexual and emotional relationship filled with manipulation rather than care.

I flipped through it for fun once, but I've avoided the hype.

I am not interested in reading it.

It's been great for the adult entertainment industry. I work at a sex shop and it has definitely increased our business. BUT I hate it. I think it's awful and unhealthy. You don't have to be into BDSM to know that's just unhealthy... It's mommy porn. And of all the things to get uptight middle aged women into a sex shop... This? Really?

I generally ignore everything I hear about the series, but I did happen to read an excerpt one time... It really just left me speechless.

I thought English classes were mandatory here. I guess not, though.

Read all three; hated all three.

I tried to read it because a friend bought me the trilogy and I didnt want to hurt their feelings but I just couldnt stand it

I read them and liked them