Couldn't do it, I tried, for a friend (not a sexy friend, lol) but it wasn't happening. Didn't really care about the content, not offended or anything. The only thing I was completely offended by was the lack of editing, the style, and the mindlessness of it all. SO glad I only did a sample on Kindle. Didn't cost me a thing to figure out I was never going to read that crap.
Honestly, I read them, just to figure out what the hype was all about. Because when people asked my opinion about it, I wanted to be able to give an honest one. It's a poorly written porno. The sex scenes are redundant and poorly written. The entire book is essentially redundant and poorly written, with a shotty storyline to accompany it. So, if you must, then read it. Or if not, discuss with her why she thought it was worth reading and why you didn't. However, this could be bad for said friendship/relationship.
I could have done it. I really could have. I could have shoulder to monotonous plot, and drove through the aweful dialogue. I could have endured that "inner godess" bull crap the James seems to think is so clever, and which no one told her is really pathetic. It was the emails for me. The fucking emails. James includes the time stamp, (DD/MM/YYYY, HH:MM) the "To:" the "From:" and the subject line of every. single. fucking. one. And it's obvious that James has never been involved in an email chain in her god-damned life, because the characters alter the subject lines of every email they write? Who the hell does that? For a start, that's gonna screw up your conversation tracker in gmail. I got through the first book by inches picked up the second and checked out, 'cause she started up with those fucking emails again on page 3.
Actually, I thought the emails were the best part of the book and the most believable. I know it's unusual to alter the subject of emails, but it certainly could be done, and I've occasionally altered the subject line of an email, although not quite like they did. And they weren't using gmail, so that wouldn't have been an issue for them ;-) The inner goddess asininity was what I really couldn't stand, and I skimmed those parts when I could.
