Monday, November 24, 2008
Bad Sex Award Nominees Announced
The Guardian gives readers a peek at the Literary Review's nominees for the year's worst erotic writing.
From the story...
Historian Simon Montefiore is also a strong competitor, singled out for his first foray into fiction, the Soviet saga Sashenka, in which a formerly prudish Communist woman enjoys an encounter with a bohemian writer. "He pulled down her brassiere, cupping her breasts, sighing in bliss. 'The blue veins are divine,' he whispered." And later: "He's a madman, she thought as he made love to her again. Oh my God, after twenty years of being the most rational Bolshevik woman in Moscow, this goblin has driven me crazy!"
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