50 Shades of Grey

Anyone read 50 Shades of Grey?  What did you think?  We read it for my book club with friends this month.  I did finish it, but ended up skimming in a lot of areas because I thought it was awful.  Extremely repetitive, very poorly written, and uninteresting characters.  No one who read it for our discussion enjoyed it.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here's a description:

"When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever."

It wasn't that it is erotica that bothered me, it was just that it was the same thing happening over & over & over and being horribly written on top of it.  Yes, they did start out as Twilight fan fiction (which didn't give me high expectations going in, but it is so popular I was hoping that it would be better than I thought it was).