I've been aware of the existence of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a couple of years now. For those of you who aren't (and who didn't click the link), it's a "prize" akin to the Golden Raspberry award, given by the Literary Review to highlight the "worst, most redundant, or embarrassing description" of sex in a novel.
This year's nominees are in, and I for one think that of the three criteria I mentioned, "embarrassing" is the one being singled out. Reading these things gave me a pretty icky feeling, almost like a parent was in the room watching me or something.
Naturally, I wanted to share this icky feeling with all of you.
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I remember well the winner from last year. A friend of mine was reading the book at the time it was announced and I made sure to point it out to him.
And "they" say it's difficult to get a book published...
Some of those passages didn't even qualify as English let alone literature. Yet another sign of society's downturn...
Yep, they're bad all right. I feel soiled.
if you ask snider, the one that tom was listening to on the way to Origins was pretty freaking bad. It was one of the cowboy tower thing.
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