Annual Bad Sex Writing Award goes to...

[Cass]

Tom Wolfe ~ author of 'I am Charlotte Simmons'



"Slither slither slither slither went the tongue," one of his winning sentences begins.



"But the hand that was what she tried to concentrate on, the hand, since it has the entire terrain of her torso to explore and not just the otorhinolaryngological caverns - oh God, it was not just at the border where the flesh of the breast joins the pectoral sheath of the chest"



The prize is awarded each year "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel".



Judges described Wolfe's prose as "ghastly and boring".



http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitem...12/s1264500.htm