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· Fifty Shades Book 1 · Random House
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In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled hundreds of millions of readers around the world.


CHRISTIAN GREY exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty - until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him - past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian's cold, wounded heart.

Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?

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San Chohan
July 11, 2015
I was really looking forward to the next instalment by EL James, so I was really disappointed that she decided to cop out and write it from Christians point of view, she literally just copied it from the original and it felt like deja vu! I want to read what happens next in this unlikely love story! There are way to many cliches and if I read 'delectable Miss Steele' once more I'll throw the book at it! Excuse the pun! I didn't bother finishing it! Please give us something new or don't bother!
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Lynn Mason
June 29, 2015
If you take out the text from the other three books you'll have about 20 pages of new story. Its a fail for me. This book is only from book one. If there is another two of these to come I'll get them in a charity shop I'm not paying full price for a book I've almost read already. The publishing house is just making money out of the success of the other three.. Shame on them.
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Louise Belgrove
July 2, 2015
Written the same way as the rest. Nothing is different word wise. You think for being a millionaire and a succesful businessman that he wouldn't use the word drinking etc. Liked the first three but this one was a waste of time haven't even finished it. Read half and put it down, as I got bored reading the same storyline from the first book. Only difference is when you explain what Mr Grey nightmares are.
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About the author

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. She followed with the #1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, The Mister in 2019. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 165 million copies worldwide.

E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's "Most Influential People in the World" and Publishers Weekly's "Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Grey stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Grey was selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Darker was long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

She was a producer on each of the three Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third instalment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018. E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.

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