And the annual Literary Review award for Bad Sex in Fiction goes to...

[Kellanved]

Giles Coren

:party:

It was the shower hose that clinched it. A passage from his debut novel, Winkler, describing a male character's genitalia as "leaping around like a shower dropped in an empty bath" won the 13th annual Literary Review award for Bad Sex in Fiction for food-critic-turned-novelist Giles Coren last night.

Coren beat off heavyweight competition for the prize with an unpunctuated 138-word description of coitus, followed by the two-word sentence, "like Zorro". Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paul Theroux and John Updike were among the 11 contenders for this year's prize, with Rushdie, Theroux and Updike all boasting previous nominations.
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1656302,00.html?gusrc=rss


The winning passage can be found here, along with the other finalists.

[dolo amber]

1. I've recently seen something comparably horrible to that

I can't quite recall where... :shrug:

[Kellanved]

3. Probably there is also an award for bad sex fiction

The "Golden Scooter" :shrug:

[Zuni]

2. Like Zorro!

:rofl:

[Richardo]

4. "A *Z*?!?"

Alan Arkin, as Shel, in "The In-Laws".

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. How does this beat Libby?

:shrug:

[Kellanved]

8. Because Libby's was Bad Sex Fiction?

Or maybe because it was too old to qualify?

[asthmaticeog]

6. "Coren beat off heavyweight competition"

:evilgrin:

[WCGreen]

9. He said beat off....

[Greyskye]

7. Tally ho demon eel!

(like Zorro!)

:evilgrin: