The fact that 50 Shades of Grey keeps topping the bestseller lists says little for the literary taste of consumers.
The painfully popular read, which spawned from Twilight fan fiction, has discriminating readers more likely to reach for a red pen than for any instrument of excitement. Frankly, anything that refers to a woman’s ‘inner goddess’ in all seriousness – more than once – should be abandoned before the first cringe-worthy chapter is out.
