Creative Musings

I have been a bit obsessed about the Fifty Shades Trilogy lately ( who isn't these days? ) and so here comes my third  article/ post on the books after Fifty Shades Unplugged and What is Driving the Success of the Fifty Shades Trilogy?  Here, I am listing out, what in my opinion, are the Best and the Worst Shades of the Fifty Shades; Shades of Grey - Fifty Shades has shades of white wrapped in innocence and pure love; shades of red embodied by bold passion and pain; shades of black in the form of dark secrets and evil intentions but most of all fifty shades has several shades of grey from the boldest steel to the shimmering silver to the darkest deep - this is the threshold where love and lust mingle, where erotica meets mush, where control fades into compromise and where innocence steps into self-assured maturity. The Names of the Characters - The names given by the author to the leading protagonists - Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele sound just so...

A blubber from my Article  published on 13th August, 2012 on Helium. "So what is driving the phenomenal success of the novels ( the Fifty Shades Trilogy, by British author E.L.James) dubbed as “mommy porn” of the century, is it the hype or the marketing? is it the storyline or just the sex?"  In my article, "What is Driving the Success of the Fifty Shades Trilogy?" on helium ,  I have tried to unravel some of the factors which have contributed to the books’ runaway success, both literary and commercial. Click on the link to learn more. Genre- Helium- Arts & Humanities- Literature- British Literature

Just finished reading Fifty Shades Freed , the third and last book of the  Fifty Shades Trilogy by British author, E.L. James. I am trying to gauge my feelings after having read the Trilogy ....am I feeling liberated as the author has expected her readers to feel? I am not sure about that but yes I am feeling spent with a vague sense of deja vu ( I did manage to read all the 3 books - despite my initial squeamishness at the erotic content). Millions of people (mostly  members of the fairer sex ) have by now devoured the Fifty Shades books- till date 31 million copies of the trilogy have been sold worldwide. For the minority who have refused to succumb to the temptation/ curiosity/ hype/ aura of the Fifty Shades Trilogy , I will run down the plot; The first book, Fifty Shades of Grey begins with the chance meeting of Anastasia Steele, a 21 year old undergrad studying literature and the very dapper, rich and successful  27 year old entrepreneur Christian G...