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  • 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 (37,935 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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It is a Chick Book

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I am Male and this seems to be a Chick Fantasy book. It was okay but not on my list of favorites.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

The book does not end with the first book.

How could the performance have been better?

My wife listened to the book also and she chose to go buy the print version rather than listen to the second two books. The story was okay but I think the performance could have been much better.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

I hope they figure out a way to make this into a movie.

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I don’t know what the fuss is about.

I thought this book would be way more raunchier the way everyone talks about it. I was a little bit let down.

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Why is this woman narrating this story?! It’s so damn annoying. A book like this should have a different kind of narrator.

This woman’s voice is so annoying. It’s not sexy or mysterious like this story is. The person narrating this type of story should have a husky, sort of low sexiness to it. This woman sounds like she just popped up from the valley. So irritating.

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Great Read

I loved this book couldn't put it down . Anastatia Steel is doing a favor for her best friend Kate to interview Christian Grey, a very wealthy business man who donated money to their universaty. Ana finds Christian very attractive but also intimidating. Christian lives a different life style that Ana is used too so when he tells her what he wants from her she wants to understand why he's like that, but Christian doesn't want to tell her the truth because he's afraid that once she knows she will leave him. One night Ana tells Christian that she wants to try to see if she can handle his needs, but she never thought how bad it could get. When Ana confesses her real fealings to Christian, his reaction wasn't what she expected so she made a really tough decision which left her with a broken heart.

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Stimulating

Really enjoyed it. Keep me awake at night while I worked. Just enough teasing without going to far.

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Not the narrator I would have picked.

The narrator kind of ruined the story for me. she did great all of the characters except for Christian's.

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Great book but needs a new narrator

I have read the book myself a couple of times and wanted to try to hear it read to me... but I couldn't get into it with the narrators voice. sorry but not sorry

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Fifty Shades of Fabulous

I'm disappointed that I saw the movie before I read the book. I think I was disappointed by the narrator simply because her voice is so different from the actress that it made a real difference to me in how the material came across.

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A Favorite

My forth time reading/listening..
Truly one my favorites...
I wished the movies were as good.

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Fifty Shade of Grey - Oh My

I have heard the book described as porn of housewives but it really is a delicious listen.

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