When the big screen beats the good book

Culture bores suggest a movie simply can’t match the sensory experience provided by the depth and breadth of a novel, Declan Burke says Fifty Shades of Grey has already put the old canard to bed.

When the big screen beats the good book

IS IT REALLY only three years since we first heard about Fifty Shades of Grey?

EL James’s self-published bonkbuster about virginal Anastasia Steel and her passionate affair with the rich and powerful Christian Grey seems to have been with us for decades, simultaneously dominating the bestseller lists and ‘Worst Book Ever’ debates like no novel before.

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