From the Associated Press: Iain Hollingshead beat David Mitchell, Mark Haddon, Will Self and Thomas Pynchon to win the 'Bad Sex prize' which aims to skewer "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel."
Iain Hollingshead won the literary award for his first novel, Twenty Something. The judges said that his description of "bulging trousers" and "a commotion of grunts and squeaks, flashing unconnected images and explosions of a million little particles," won him the prize.
Hollingshead, 25, received his award from rocker Courtney Love in London ceremony, said he was delighted to become the prize's youngest winner. "I hope to win it every year," he is reported to have said.
Other cringe worthy erotic writing of the past year were:
Tim Willcocks, The Religion: "In the pit of his stomach a cauldron boiled and some seething and nameless brew rose up through his spine and filled his brain with the Devil's Fire,"
David Mitchell, Black Swan Green: for a passage in which one character's breasts are compared to "a pair of Danishes" and another's to "two Space Hoppers."
Tom Pynchon, Against the Day: a scene involving a spaniel that ends: "Reader, she bit him."
Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother: "Images went off in her head like little fireworks. The smell of coconut. Brass firedogs."
But one feels none match last years winner, food critic and novelist Giles Coren for comparing a male character's genitalia to a shower hose.
Full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_en_ot/books_bad_sex
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