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I've yet to read it but don't feel strongly compelled to. Being a writer, I'm incredibly picky about writing. I put a book down right away if it isn't up to my standards, which are not something I can clearly define. It doesn't have to have perfect grammar (I've read books, such as "Rule of the Bone" which do not have great grammar but are still awesome) or a perfect story. But it has to be believable and it has to look like the author put some serious love into it. I picked up one of the Twilight books a while back and felt the exact opposite. The writing was total crap, worse than most of my first drafts. It was pathetic to me that someone would have cranked out a book like that. I once heard she wrote it in under a year, which is pretty disgusting to me. I've been working on my first novel for six years now. I think that sort of art should take a long time.

 

I don't know how long the author spent on 50 shades, but based on people's reaction to it, I imagine it would give me a similar feeling as the Twilight series...