Tammy Bruce: Bad Sex in Fiction Awards

Bad Sex in Fiction Awards

Have been awarded. The fourteenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, that is. And even though it's bad, I know all of you want the link. And yes, they have passages. Ooh, they even have winning passages from previous years. Don't say I never gave you anything. Especially bad sex in fiction. Let's just hope I never give you bad sex in non-fiction. Or in life. Now that would be, uh, bad.

Posted by Tammy · December 28, 2006 01:26 AM · Permalink
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Well, even though these days I don't read fiction books with sex scenes very often, (I am too busy reading non-fiction books about religious freedom and conservative politics) -- BUT, back in the day, I would definitely have given a Bad Sex in Fiction Award to mega-superstar author STEPHEN KING, (read the sex in his book, IT, for example).

Posted by: Psalm_9:17 at December 28, 2006 05:43 AM

Tammy - The man who said you never give us anything either lacks: a good education, brains or both of the previous.

We keep coming back *because* you not only give us things but interesting and enlightening things!

Posted by: Rod at December 28, 2006 08:36 AM

P.S.
I should have included Maynard in my comment above. He also gives us interesting and enlightening things.

Posted by: Rod at December 28, 2006 08:39 AM

Tammy, I'm guessin' your bad would still be pretty good. :)
(Someone had to say it... .)

Posted by: Kimj7157 at December 28, 2006 08:41 AM

What a prize we have here! An eloquent simile as "...And she could hear herself panting now, like a dog..." - boy, that's a line you want to remember while bringing your lover to the brink of ecstacy. Of course, if this were being written about Paris Hilton it would make sense because she resembles an Afghan.

These passages are so bad they are funny, so thanks for the laugh, Tammy! Surely, the authors knew how awful it was. I cannot imagine a writer pacing throughout the night, looking for inspiration, wanting to be taken seriously and the result was "Now his skin was glazed in roast pork sweat". Brilliantly stimulating, wouldn't you say? They had to be striving to write something that would make the Bad Sex Award list. After all, they are British.

Then again, what do I know? I'm an insomniac with a bad mattress and an overactive imagination.

Posted by: artgal at December 28, 2006 09:19 AM

And they get PAID for that? I am in the WRONG profession.

Posted by: seejanemom at December 28, 2006 11:30 AM

My gosh, what putrid stuff. No wonder the Brits lost their empire.

Posted by: Talkin Horse at December 28, 2006 01:35 PM

About 25 years ago I asked a white haired clerk in a liquor store in Mobile, Alabama why business was booming on a Thursday night. He said, "Son, business in here is like sex. When it's good - it's really good. And when it's bad - it's not that bad." That said, the passages that were quoted on that link were not even capable of generating a cheap thrill. Not even a minor stirring of the loins. But thanks for trying, Tammy.

Posted by: Lib85 at December 28, 2006 06:04 PM

Wow, that is bad. Of course, taken liteally "bad" sex is like "bad" chocolate. Even the worst chocolate is still pretty good.

Posted by: PeteRFNY at January 2, 2007 11:17 AM

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