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26 Nov 2008 11:24 am
The Bad Sex Writing Award
Boris Johnson's novelist sister Rachel has won the prize:
Johnson
was singled out for her novel's slew of animal metaphors, including
comparing her male protagonist's "light fingers" to "a moth caught
inside a lampshade", and his tongue to "a cat lapping up a dish of
cream so as not to miss a single drop". Literary Review deputy editor
Tom Fleming was also disturbed by the heroine's "grab, to put him, now
angrily slapping against both our bellies, inside".
"You sort of
think it might be a typo, but she is actually referring to his penis as
him. It's a mixture of cliché and euphemism, but it's also very
spirited – A plus for effort," he said. "All the entries were equally
awful this year, but Rachel Johnson had the worst metaphors, and the
worst animal metaphors."
Read more submissions here.
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