U.S. author Wolfe wins bad sex award

[tuvor]

LONDON (Reuters) - American author and journalist Tom Wolfe has won one of the world's most dreaded literary accolades -- the British prize for bad sex in fiction.

The prize is awarded each year "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel".

Wolfe won it for a couple of purple passages from his latest novel "I am Charlotte Simmons", a tale of campus life at an exclusive U.S. university.

"Slither slither slither slither went the tongue," one of his winning sentences begins.

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liz cheney, bill o'lielly, and now Tom Wolfe...What's with these bushkissers and the uncontrollable urge to write about explicit sex? And so badly???

[jeff30997]

1. They write about something they can't do in real life...

[burn the bush]

2. Is this the same Tom Wolfe who wrote the electric Kool-aid acid test?

[mzmolly]

3. I believe so.

I think this guy was on "The Daily Show" not so long ago.

[tuvor]

4. Yup. And Bonfire of the Vanities.

[rlev1223]

5. and "Radical Chic"

and "The Right Stuff"

[NV Whino]

6. Well, he's getting on in years

Still wears the white suit, though.

[burn the bush]

7. and hes a right winger? I would have thought most people who hang out

with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, hells angels, and Grateful Dead would not be a pug. I guess once you make enough money, you would benefit from the pugs. too bad

[terrya]

8. "A Man in Full", his last novel, was laughable...

when he was writing from an African-American's perspective. Just idiotically false.

[Patiod]

9. "Man if Full" was dreadful

"The Right Stuff" was brilliant, though. Especially the Chuck Yeager bits.