Friday, December 3, 2010

2010 Bad Sex Award

Britain’s Literary Review awards the "Bad Sex in Fiction Award” each year. The 2010 winner is Rowan Somerville's The Shape of Her. In accepting the award, Somerville said, “There is nothing more English than bad sex, so on behalf of the entire nation I would like to thank you.”

The novel contains sentences such as "Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her." A nipple is compared to the “nose of the loveliest nocturnal animal, sniffing in the night.”

http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/badsex.html

2 comments:

Owen Kennedy said...

I am sooooo using that line in my next book. I'm writing it in right now.

Ruth A. said...

That was pretty bad.