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Mr Noone said:
There's a "Bad Sex Award". Who knew?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...term=138230&subid=1877014&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
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No Bad Sex, Please, We're Critics:
U.K. Authors Brace for Award
By Hephzibah Anderson

Nov. 27 [2007] (Bloomberg) -- Britain's most anxiously awaited literary prize will be granted this evening, when hardworking judges present some lucky novelist with the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

Previously won by Tom Wolfe and Sebastian Faulks, the contest dishonors the author of the year's most atrociously torrid sex scene. The eight finalists for 2007 include seamy passages from the late Norman Mailer's ``The Castle in the Forest'' and Ali Smith's ``Girl Meets Boy.''

The London monthly inaugurated the annual award in 1993 ``to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.''

They have a point. Among this year's finalists, robots do it, paunchy tycoons do it, even William Shakespeare, clinging to Anne Hathaway's ``heaving haunches,'' does it.

The contest pits Mailer's incestuous Hitler clan and Smith's earthly embodiment of the mythical Iphis against the lusty automaton in Jeanette Winterson's ``The Stone Gods,'' a Russian oligarch in Gary Shteyngart's ``Absurdistan,'' and the breathless Bard in Christopher Rush's ``Will.''

Other finalists included Clare Clark, whose heroine becomes ``unhooked by longing'' in ``The Nature of Monsters.'' Richard Milward made the cut with ``Apples,'' whose quaking young hero turns out to be all talk and no sizzle. And who could resist actor David Thewlis's ``The Late Hector Kipling,'' about an artist who dabbles in S&M?

`Spasms and Snaps'
(The hero endures a poultice of hot dripping wax and cold lager before the core of his soul ``spasms and snaps, spilling out its filthy pips.'')

Gleefully billed as ``Britain's most dreaded literary prize,'' the award was dreamed up by critic Rhoda Koenig and enthusiastically inaugurated by the magazine's late editor, Auberon Waugh.

Waugh's own father, Evelyn Waugh, was no stranger to steamy scenes: Witness the passage in ``Brideshead Revisited'' where narrator Charles Ryder recalls his moment of bliss between the ``narrow loins'' of Julia Mottram, sister of his close friend Sebastian Flyte.

Anyone can suggest a specimen of tacky sex that merits the award. The only prize for the winning author is an abstract statuette depicting what the Literary Review calls ``sex in the 1950s.''

Wolfe Fights Back
Most recipients blush and bear the dubious media exposure with good grace, though Wolfe and Faulks both declined to receive their laurels in person. Wolfe even struck back at the judges, claiming that they had failed to understand the deliberate irony in his winning scenes from ``I Am Charlotte Simmons.''

A fixture in London's literary calendar, the award is routinely invoked by reviewers warning readers off squirm- inducing works. Pornographic or expressly erotic works are excluded from the contest. Yet the judging panel, which consists of Literary Review staff, always finds plenty to choose from.

In previous years, women have ``squeaked like wet rubber,'' men have brandished ``iron stalks,'' and couples have ``sweated pepper 'n' spices sweat'' or lost themselves (and the sniggering reader) in ``a commotion of grunts and squawks.''

For all its schoolmarmishness, the contest revels in the pulsating purple prose that it seeks to eliminate, with the award ceremony featuring husky-voiced actresses who read the contending passages aloud. Sting and Jerry Hall are among the celebrities who have presented the prize.

Still, the prize does beg a question: What, pray tell, constitutes good literary sex?



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Mr Noone said:
There's a "Bad Sex Award". Who knew?

http://www.theguardian.com/books/20...term=138230&subid=1877014&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
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Norman Mailer Wins Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Award
By Hephzibah Anderson

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The late Norman Mailer won the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award, becoming the first author posthumously lampooned for writing the year's most atrociously torrid sex scene.

Mailer, who died this month at age 84, was famous for his macho swagger. The judges paid tribute to his accomplishments and his love of life even as they mocked a particularly earthy coupling in his novel about Adolf Hitler's childhood and adolescence, ``The Castle in the Forest.''

``We are sure that he would have taken the prize in good humor,'' the judges said in a statement.

The London monthly inaugurated the annual award in 1993 ``to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.''

Previously won by Tom Wolfe and Sebastian Faulks, the U.K. contest this year pitted Mailer's incestuous Hitler clan against seven other finalists, including Ali Smith's ``Girl Meets Boy.'' ...



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Aglaopheme said:
Indeed!

My middle one is getting braces out on today. I suggested she take the whole day off of school, she wanted to go in for part of the day. Who's kids is this? :eek:
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I've got one like that.

Soft foods for your middle one, she's got a rough couple days ahead. :rose:
 
Aglaopheme said:
Ha! You'll have to excuse the lack of attention I pay to what I type around here.

She's having braces put on today.
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Awww, a rite of passage! :)

Make sure you take LOTS of pictures today.

You'll need them many years down the road, for the photo montage at your daughter's wedding rehearsal dinner. :D
 
BabblingBrooke said:
I've got one like that.

Soft foods for your middle one, she's got a rough couple days ahead. :rose:
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I've told her to choose where she'd like to lunch wisely.

RobDownSouth said:
Awww, a rite of passage! :)

Make sure you take LOTS of pictures today.

You'll need them many years down the road, for the photo montage at your daughter's wedding rehearsal dinner. :D
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You should see the ones I have of her older sister getting her braces on. :devil:
 
My PM box is at 666 again. It's the little devilish things that make me laugh.
 
The |Northern Ireland libraries website used to be great, when it was in-house. Then they outsourced it, presumably because it was cheaper. Now the catalogue search doesn't work, images don't display and links are 404. Yay private enterprise!
 
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