Fiction judges take "Kindly" to bad sex

From the Denver Post:

LONDON — A cringe-inducing passage that compares a sexual encounter to battle with a one- eyed mythological monster was awarded Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize on Monday. The editors of Literary Review magazine said best-selling American author Jonathan Littell won the prize for describing a sex act as "a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg." The offending passage compared female genitalia to various Greek fiends, including the mythical monster Gorgon and "a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks."

Littell's prize-winning excerpt appears in "The Kindly Ones," a 900-page epic narrated by a fictional Nazi officer. Originally published in French, the international best-seller won France's top literary honor, the Goncourt Prize, in 2006... John Updike was awarded a lifetime-achievement award after he had been shortlisted for the prize four times in its 17-year history.

Your move, Stoner. And speaking of bad sex:
















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