• Fifty Shades of Grey

  • Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy
  • By: E. L. James
  • Narrated by: Becca Battoe
  • Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (37,743 ratings)

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Fifty Shades of Grey

By: E. L. James
Narrated by: Becca Battoe
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Publisher's summary

More than 150 million copies sold worldwide.

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too - but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success - his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family - Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

This audiobook is intended for mature audiences.

Look for E L James’ passionate new love story, The Mister, coming April 16, 2019.

©2011 E L James (P)2012 Random House

Critic reviews

  • Finalist, GoodReads Choice Awards, Best Romance

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Didn’t like narrator

I would have fathered hearing a male narrator just because of the subject matter. It may have been better if a man had done the male voices as the narrator did not do a good job with emphasizing where a man would. I did not like her male voices in general but lack of ability to mimic a male in general was disappointing. I did not get from this rendition what I was hoping for based on other people’s opinion of it after reading it. I would recommend reading it instead.

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I'm not sure what all the fuss is about this book sucked big time can't believe they made this crap into a movie I could think of so many other books that should have gotta to b a movie I'm so disappointed the narrator voice is irritating as well it's just long drawn out n boring as crap really wish I didn't waste a credit on this book crap crap crap 😡😠😤

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#1

This series will forever hold a place in my heart! My #1 go to when I can't find anything else!

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Waste of money.

Read it for curiosity, disappointed. Not sure what the big deal was. Definitely not my kind of reading.

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Subject: Smart Anna

The book cast Anna as a 4.0 college grad and virgin, ok fine. But why does it make her sound so dumb. Just because you're a virgin doesn't mean you're oblivious to sex acts. Also if she is smart why would she not research things on her own. This would show she is wantting to see what type of acts Christian likes. Also she should know what limits are. Christian never said he needed the hard core acts with her. Plus the fact that he is having crazy hot sex with her everywhere but the play room, mostly, should be a clue. He always said she was in controll, why is she portraied as dumb to this. I understand she is new to sex but stupid to his words come on. It should have been as untrsting instead.

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hmmmmm

I was told the book is better than the movie and I have not seen the movie. I was disappointed with many things in this book. I was looking for an oretic, sexy book and I feel like I read a book about an abused man that now has abused women sexually. I was extremely disappointed that she kept referring to her personal body parts as her sex. Really!? I have never heard that expressed like that and it was starting to creep me out.

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decepcionamte

cuando leí este libro por primera vez sentí todas los sentimientos y sensaciones que la autora describe.
está interpretación no se acerca ni en lo más mínimo a eso.
al igual que la película hace ver a los protagonistas como estrellas porno y es de lo menos que se trata este libro.
finalmente la voz de la redactora es molesta, no interpreta los personajes con la entonación que debe ni hace diferencias entre personajeS.
muy muy decepcionante está interpretación.

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Shallow and teeangerish

I enjoyed the movie yet this book was laughably horrid. I kept thinking it would get better having multiple voices actors can enhance the depth of the experience.

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Terrible Narration

The narrator is god awful. It was really hard to get through. It can completely make or break a story.

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Love the story.. dislike the narrator ..

So I’ve been on the EL James band wagon for years . I have read the entire series have all 3 books +the movies and I just say I wanted to give the audible version a try as well . Well the story of course is amazing the attraction, the domination and love these two share is fairly tale. The narrators voice was very annoying I will not purchase the remaining books in the series as she completes them all . However I missed the POV books told my Mr. grey himself so I’ll give those a try .. EL James i wish you would have selected another narrator ...

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