50 Shades + GR & Personal Update

It's been a month and I still haven't posted the review for Generation Dead mainly because...well...I haven't written it yet. I've been kind of in the dumps lately due to being depressed for not having a job. I moved 1800 miles away from home late January to be with my fiance. I left a good, steady job to step into unknown territory. I was really close to getting a good job at a police station as a telecommunicator last month, but apparently the psychiatrist thinks I'm a little too mental for the job, which just makes me go, "WTF?!" It's really depressing when someone who knows nothing about you job-blocks you when you know for a fact you have no mental issues. Unfortunately, I can't request the reason why he thought I was no good and most of the jobs I want would require me to go see the same psychiatrist and I've been warned that he'd look at my file and automatically tell future employers "no-go" for up to a year without giving me a second chance. Fucking blows. So now I'm forced to apply to minimum wage jobs. It's not that I'm not too good for fast food or retail work, but it won't pay my bills.

So that's my update.

Anywho, what prompted me to write a post is because of some Goodreads stuff. Now I am not going to say drama because it's nothing like that. Here's the link to said discussion.

The topic is on 50 Shades of Grey and the original poster meant for the thread to simply be a place for her to rant and even asked that no one reply. Fair enough, though if you're anything like me, you tend to do the opposite of what you're told (except for my bosses because they signed my paycheck that allowed me to survive!). However, FSoG invokes emotions in certain people. Personally, I can't stand 50 Shades.

I wasn't going to chime in, but then I felt the need to give my input on the similarities between the characters of Ana/Christian vs. Bella/Edward because some people were saying:

Which is not true that "not one" thought of Bella and Edward while reading FSoG because:

There are actually about fifty points of similarities the author of the list made. I also made a post to list a few qualities I felt the main characters shared, but it's not nearly as thorough as the one above. Despite the content of my input on the thread, that's not the reason why I felt a need to write this post. The reason why is because of the whole "if you don't like it, then don't read it" and "you have to give the whole trilogy a try before judging the FSoG" drivel.

Question is, how will we know if we don't like it if we don't read it? And why should we have to read the rest of the series for our opinions to count? I had read a whole series because I thought it was SO bad that it was actually fun (but frustrating) to read, but I don't HAVE to buy more books to give it a fair shot. Reading the first book is fair shot enough. I also really fucking hate when people say how it's the first book so who cares if it's not well-written. Umm...I do. That's ten bucks for paperback, up to eighteen dollars for hardcover, that I didn't have to fork over, but did. And if I'm going to pay for something, I sure as hell want the product to be as good as it can be. And even if I didn't pay for it, I'm still taking the time to read it where I could have read something else, something better. Honestly, I should have been paid a dollar for every time I had to read "oh my", "holy crap", "inner goddess", "my subconscious", "hooded", "clamber", "hot", "murmurs", "whispers", "down there", etc. etc. etc.