Are you sure Lover was talking of the book!?
btw…..i read about a comment of Master who think that book is basically trash, for how it talk about the bdsm thing. i wonder if someone had read it!
Yes, I'm sure that he was. 
HB. To be honest I've read the first book, for me its a 6/10. In the first pages the book got my attention but then it was a little boring.
I've bought the other 2 books and i've read 20% of the second and 0% of the third and since then I haven't read them. I've read other books after, so the reason isn't lacking of time to read; I really didn't find them that exciting. I've read other books that were way more exciting.
PS: Just to remind that Fifty Shades of Grey is a trilogy of books with strong and explicit scenes of bondage, sadism and masochism.