Who will win this year's Bad Sex in Fiction award?
Johnson's winning passage includes the following lines: "I find myself gripping his ears and tugging at the locks curling over them, beside myself, and a strange animal noise escapes from me as the mounting, Wagnerian crescendo overtakes me.
Background:
The prize, which is now in its 16th year, is intended to “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it. The prize is not intended to cover pornographic or expressly erotic literature, and is limited to the literary novel”.
Some excerpts: Never mind.. I can't bring myself to type any of that... Try this to read some excerpts.
Last years winner was a posthumous Norman Mailer, who likened a male member to a "coil of excrement." More here from the 2007 awards.
Settlement details:
As reported by a major mainstream news source. To be announced Nov 25th
Settled
| James Buchan for The Gate of Air |
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| Simon Montefiore for Sashenka |
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| John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick |
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| Kathy Lette for To Love, Honour and Betray |
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| Alastair Campbell for All in the Mind |
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| Rachel Johnson for Shire Hell |
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| Isabel Fonseca for Attachment |
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| Ann Allestree for Triptych of a Young Wolf |
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| Russell Banks for The Reserve |
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| Paulo Coelho for Brida |
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Suspend date: Mon 24th Nov 2008 11:59pm PST Settlement date: Tue 25th Nov 2008 1:30pm PSTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Mon 24th Nov 2008 11:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
Initial likelihoods: James Buchan for The Gate of Air: 10%, Simon Montefiore for Sashenka: 10%, John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick: 10%, Kathy Lette for To Love, Honour and Betray: 10%, Alastair Campbell for All in the Mind: 10%, Rachel Johnson for Shire Hell: 10%, Isabel Fonseca for Attachment: 10%, Ann Allestree for Triptych of a Young Wolf: 10%, Russell Banks for The Reserve: 10%, Paulo Coelho for Brida: 10%
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: Johnson's winning passage includes the following lines: "I find myself gripping his ears and tugging at the locks curling over them, beside myself, and a strange animal noise escapes from me as the mounting, Wagnerian crescendo overtakes me.
Suspend date: Mon 24th Nov 2008 11:59pm PST Settlement date: Tue 25th Nov 2008 1:30pm PSTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Mon 24th Nov 2008 11:59pm PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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ipopcorn8
predicted John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick (H$50 at 19%)
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predicted John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick (H$20 at 19%)
australiavotes
predicted Paulo Coelho for Brida (H$150 at 13%)
predicted John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick (H$20 at 19%)
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predicted Ann Allestree for Triptych of a Young Wolf (H$100 at 30%)
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predicted John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick (H$20 at 24%)
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predicted John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick (H$20 at 26%)
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predicted John Updike for The Widows of Eastwick (H$100 at 25%)Comments (9)
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"It's very heartening to see what a distinguished list of writers seem to be listed with me," said Allestree. "I wrote the book because I had written memoirs and biographies, and thought every writer has to do a novel, it's a force majeure. So I set off to do it, and thought I've got to put sex in - every novel's got to have sex in it."
She said her novel was "essentially quite a serious one". "It's about wolves," she continued. "There is wolf sex, between my young wolf, my hero, and his girlfriend, who happens to be an Alsatian … they have hybrid sex."
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What the *car horn noise* ?!
member of the country club? member of the Cabinet?
waits for the pennies to drop...
Jenni, why don't you put on your "good witch" shoes, wave your magic wand again, and give us the GOOD SEX novel reading list for the year? Hmmmm? That would be a nice Christmas present for all of us...
Meanwhile back at the farm, WHO wants a whole reading list, filled with coils of excrement...?
Of course, there's always: http://thebooksmugglers.blogspot.com/search/label/10%20Rated%20Books but perhaps that's not what you were looking for...
Just kidding, but it is kinda nice being the only one out of 56 wagers to have it right!
Congrats too...and another great question Jenni!!!
wow tisha coming out of her shell. :O)
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