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It's that time of year again!
KvP:
Time for the bad sex in fiction awards! Yaaaay!
The Nominees!
--- Quote from: Philip Roth in The Humbling ---It was as if she were wearing a mask on her genitals, a weird totem mask, that made her into what she was not and was not supposed to be
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--- Quote from: Paul Theroux ---Her hands were all over me, four hands it seemed, or more than four, and as she touched she made me weightless, lifting me off the table in a prolonged ritual of levitation
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--- Quote from: John Banville ---She puts her hands flat against his chest and leans into him in a simulacrum of a swoon, making a mewling sound
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--- Quote from: Nick Cave ---Bunny lies on his back on the sofa. He is naked and his clothes sit in sad, little heaps on the living room floor
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Vote in the poll! Reflect on the bad fiction sex of years past. What are your favorites? What makes you laugh? What makes you cry?
Zingoleb:
Is the Nick Cave one serious? I like that one a lot if it's supposed to be funny. If it's serious I may have to vote that one.
Ikrik:
The Philip Roth one was completely weird and horrible. I keep reading it and even though I think I understand what it's saying it still has me baffled.
KvP:
So the official winner of the award was Jonathan Littell, who wrote "The Kindly Ones", a fictional memoir of a former SS officer.
--- Quote ---The offending passage compared female genitalia to various Greek fiends, including the mythical monster Gorgon and "a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks."
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As an added bonus, here's more stuff from the ever-lovable Nick Cave:
--- Quote ---Cave described nipples which were "the size and texture of liquorice Jelly Spogs" and at one point a character in the book pleads with her partner to "pray, pray at my portal."
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Tom:
I honestly don't see anything wrong with Cave's writing. Do I have problems?
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