![]() ![]() The fact that a middle-aged woman has written it is also often evident. ![]() More of a Frankenstein's monster than a Dracula, the book is similarly stitched together – the flirtatious emails are straight from Bridget Jones Christian's apartment is, bizarrely, Frasier Crane's Seattle penthouse, floor-length windows, grand piano and all (I kept expecting Eddie to arrive and do something amusing on the expensive furniture) the glider ride is from The Thomas Crown Affair and the sex owes a debt to Anne Rice – but the Sleeping Beauty novels rather than the vamps. He plays the piano, doesn't like to be touched, loves opera, orders Ana everything from the breakfast menu, makes the rules, doesn't want a relationship, buys her new clothes, stays in a huge suite in a posh hotel and so on. ![]() It turns out that Christian Grey isn't a moony vampire at all he is, in fact, the grey-templed, uber-rich and powerful businessman played by Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. ![]()
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