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November 30, 2010
Tweeted this earlier but had to share here: bad sex award
The Guardian reported on the Bad Sex Award today, an annual literary prize given in honour of the worst sex passages in novels. Apparently, the award was established in 1993 by the late Auberon Waugh to draw attention to the "crude, tasteless, and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it".
The Guardian published the winning extract from Rowan Somerville's novel The Shape of Her that won him this year's prize.
I particularly liked the last sentence in the extract:
Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her.
Though you should read the whole thing for some truly astounding analogies to parts of the female form such as:
...her breast was uncovered, her nipple poking out, upturned like the nose of the loveliest nocturnal animal, sniffing the night.
Brilliant. It actually makes me want to read the whole novel.
Posted by glittrgirl at November 30, 2010 7:41 PM
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