Twilight or Fifty Shades of Grey?

[Beautiful End]

And you gotta choose one! Otherwise, why be here?

Alright, there's the thing. Those two novels receive a lot of hate and a lot of attention. I'm not saying they're basically the same when it comes to content; I'm just saying that if you hate both and you HAD to choose one of them, which one would you choose? I just thought it'd be fun to pick something like this as opposed to something most people would like (Link vs. Zelda, Gordon freeman vs. Chell, etc.)
Disclaimer: I know 50SoG started as a Twilight fanfiction. Ignore than and just choose one you would keep/like better.

Personally, I would choose Twilight. I enjoyed reading the books because I always thought they had potential. If the author would have chosen to take a different approach, the series would have been amazing. Vampires with different superpowers? Vampire royalty? Giant Werewolves? Sounds like a comic book to me. I think all of that would have worked better as an action novel than a quasi romance novel. Fifty Shade of Grey is just plan softcore porn, if you ask me.

So which one would you prefer to keep and why?

Edit: Yeah, you don't gotta read them. I mean, if you don't know what they're about, then what are you doing here? just choose one anyway and if you do know, then no point in forcing someone to read it. Let me put it this way: If the two books were on fire and you could on save one AND that's your only choice (Not throwing yourself to the fire, not gouging your eyes out, not running away, etc.), which one would it be?

 

[Zoe Castillo]

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[Gatx]

I don?t want to condemn from ignorance, so what's Fifty Shades of Grey about ? I know it?s the new thing to hate and I know it?s about sex but what?s so evil about it?

I don't know the plot per se but I do know that a lot of the controversy around it is due to it literally being a Twilight fanfiction, but with the names changed. And now it's on best sellers lists all over the world.

On a side note, I would love to see how they would adapt it, seeing as how it does get pretty explicit.

 

[Dags90]

Giant Werewolves?

Werewolves didn't really get much mention at all in Twilight, they're supposed to be nearly extinct.

I've not read Fifty Shades, but Twilight has some decent characters. Mostly the side characters like Rosalie. Rosalie is a fairly interesting and developed character by the end. It just takes so long to hear out her story because the rest of the story moves at the pace of frozen molasses.

 

[Spambot 3000]

Well it doesn't matter which one I choose, you didn't say I had to read them.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I swear I'm seriously the only women around here (IRL, not on this website) who hasn't read 50 Shades.
The closest I've done is read a review and I honestly don't see what's so sexy about an abusive relationship :s Maybe if they actually read it instead of trying to stick the books up their vaginas they might disapprove of what is really going on.

But if I had to chose, Twilight. 50 Shades is just Twilight fan-fiction with changed names. I absolutely hate people who can't think of anything original and try ride on the coat tails of other stories. As least Twilight is somewhat of an original story...
I have nothing against fan-fiction as I wrote it myself years ago, but people shouldn't be making money off it just by changing the names.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Spoiler: Between those two choices, there is only one option.

Really, why would I subject myself to either of these pieces of crap? I refuse.

 

[Alternative]

well Twilight is a badly written, uninteresting series of books that portray the relationship between the second most bland, boring, retarded character i have ever had the misfortune to read.

while Fifty Shades of Grey is an worse written, horrible mess of a book that idolizes abusive relationships and stalking. Containing the most bland, boring and spineless character i have ever read.

So i'll choose twilight because Twilight doesn't contain an abusive, manipulative psychopath as the ideal husband while at the same time demonizing BDSM relationships.

 

[WolfCross]

From what i've heard Edward is also an abusive manipulative swine as well as the guy from 50 shades of brown... so if i *had* to pick one i'd probably say twilight simply because i have more people in my circle of friends (i know one male friend who loves it and never misses an opportunity to promote himself on the basis that 'he liked it before it was big', the fool) who i can verbally abuse for enjoying it on the basis that i've read it rather than jus' cos.

 

[Bernzz]

50 Shades of Grey.

"But wait!" I hear you shout, which is really impressive because we're probably on different continents to each other, "It's even worse than Twilight! How could you choose it?"

Simple. It's fucking hilarious when read in different voices.

Watch:

 

[ErinRedbird]

I guess I have to say Twilight. Though my opinion might be biased as I haven't read 50 Shades myself, only heard about it from friends. But their summary was enough to keep me well away from it. So yeah..

 

[Kratenser]

I've read Twilight and 50 shades and honestly? I gotta say Twilight. 50 shades was a good idea but I thought it was badly written and unconvincing. I mean say what you will about Twilight, at least it was trying to be original.

Thats not to say Twilight was better written but, it is the lesser of two evils in my opinion so I'll happily go with it.

Presumably after reading that I go back to watching Trueblood, cause damnit I love that show.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Fifty Shade of Grey is just plan softcore porn

I know SOMEONE who didn't read the book...

Anyway, I say 50SoG, because if you are going to read trash books, might as well make it trash you can fap to.

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[TIMESWORDSMAN]

I'd choose Twilight, but only because without it this picture wouldn't exist:

It makes me giggle.

 

[Tallim]

If I had to choose, Twilight. But then without 50 shades this wouldn't exist and I wouldn't have spent quite so much time laughing.


Probably best not play that in a public place lol

 

[Astoria]

Twilight easy. The books aren't as bad as the movies, yeah they aren't great but they're readable. From what I've read of Shades it sounds like it was written by a 14 year old daydreaming about her bad boy boyfriend she's gonna have when she grows up.

 

[Padwolf]

Twilight. Twilight so easily. 50 Shades of Shite is the worst thing I have ever read. It is poorly written, Twilight was written better. It's unconvincing too, a guy who is 27 years old, owns his own company, is a fully licensed pilot and went to university? Yeah... I'll believe that... Also it treats BDSM as something to be cured of, something wrong with your head if you enjoy it. It's downright insulting as hell to read. Also there are so many grammar mistakes! There are so many problems with the characters, so many problems with pretty much everything in the book.

 

[SonicWaffle]

Personally, I would choose Twilight. I enjoyed reading the books because I always thought they had potential. If the author would have chosen to take a different approach, the series would have been amazing. Vampires with different superpowers? Vampire royalty? Giant Werewolves? Sounds like a comic book to me. I think all of that would have worked better as an action novel than a quasi romance novel. Fifty Shade of Grey is just plan softcore porn, if you ask me.

I only read the first Twilight, but it seemed to me to be nothing worse than a lot of teenage fiction - pretty badly written, but not that bad. It struck me as having the same issue as the Hunger Games did; the bullshit romantic plot that supercedes anything interesting that might be happening.

Honestly, if you had Twilight without Edward and Bella, it would be a hell of a lot more interesting. Barely restrained killing machines trying to pass in ordinary society, roving packs of vampires praying on whoever they want, supernatural vampire vs werewolf warfare...pretty cool. Instead we just got a lot of teenage angst.

One thing I do question, though. You know how one of the not-Edward Cullens absolutely flips his shit because Bella cuts herself and he can smell that tiny drop of blood from the other side of the room? How it drives him into a mindless berserker rage? Well, he goes to a high school with hundreds or possibly thousands of teenage girls. Do none of them ever menstruate?! You'd think by now that school would be a wasteland littered with corpses just because one girl was on the rag and someone caught a whiff.