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Old Dec 4th 2007, 5:33 pm
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Default And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

..... the recently deceased Norman Mailer.

I've highlighted the relevant part in blue.

Who says romance is dead........???

(Reuters) - Writer Norman Mailer, a giant of
the American literary scene and twice a winner of the Pulitzer
Prize, was posthumously given the Bad Sex in Fiction Award on
Tuesday.
"We are sure that he would have taken the prize in good
humour," the judges said of the award to Mailer, who died on Nov
10 of kidney failure at the age of 84.
They paid homage to Mailer as a great American man of
letters and hailed his "innovative journalism, his combative
spirit and his love of life".
However, they could not resist awarding him the prize for a
graphic passage in his novel "The Castle in the Forest."
The award most dreaded by authors was established in 1993 by
the late Auberon Waugh when he was editor-in-chief of The
Literary Review. Previous winners have included U.S. writer Tom
Wolfe and British author Sebastian Faulks.
Mailer, renowned for his biting prose, penchant for
controversy and larger-than-life personality, had provoked and
enraged readers with his acerbic views on U.S. politics and the
wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
The winning passage, which leaves little to the imagination,
begins: "So Klara turned head to foot and put her most
unmentionable part down on his hard-breathing nose and mouth and
took his old battering ram into her lips."
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Old Dec 4th 2007, 5:42 pm
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There Ain't no such thing as "bad sex'...
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Old Dec 4th 2007, 5:43 pm
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by Confucius
There Ain't no such thing as "bad sex'...
Well let's ask the ladies of The Bored if, on the evidence given above, they would like to have had sex with Norman Mailer.........
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Old Dec 4th 2007, 5:44 pm
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Originally Posted by The Dean
Well let's ask the ladies of The Bored if, on the evidence given above, they would like to have had sex with Norman Mailer.........
I am off to bed...seems the safest thing to do...nite nite boys
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by The Dean
Well let's ask the ladies of The Bored if, on the evidence given above, they would like to have had sex with Norman Mailer.........
You gave the answer already...There is no bad sex...Only the person who is doing it is bad...
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by The Dean
Well let's ask the ladies of The Bored if, on the evidence given above, they would like to have had sex with Norman Mailer.........
Whats he look like?
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Originally Posted by beebee
Whats he look like?
Well he's dead now.......

....... so presumably only Mata Hari would fancy him........
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by The Dean
Well he's dead now.......

....... so presumably only Mata Hari would fancy him........
Oh..they could do a film... "I fancy dead people"
But anyways, why did you say that? Do you mean Dead People or people who are dead?
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Originally Posted by beebee
Oh..they could do a film... "I fancy dead people"
But anyways, why did you say that? Do you mean Dead People or people who are dead?
cause Mata Hari is dead as well...
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by Confucius
You gave the answer already...There is no bad sex...Only the person who is doing it is bad...
That's a riddle that only Confucius could solve there mate

Of course there's bad sex...and then there's VERY bad sex
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by Redlippie
That's a riddle that only Confucius could solve there mate

Of course there's bad sex...and then there's VERY bad sex
our Conf is just happy with anything...sweet really
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by The Dean
..... the recently deceased Norman Mailer.

I've highlighted the relevant part in blue.

Who says romance is dead........???

(Reuters) - Writer Norman Mailer, a giant of
the American literary scene and twice a winner of the Pulitzer
Prize, was posthumously given the Bad Sex in Fiction Award on
Tuesday.
"We are sure that he would have taken the prize in good
humour," the judges said of the award to Mailer, who died on Nov
10 of kidney failure at the age of 84.
They paid homage to Mailer as a great American man of
letters and hailed his "innovative journalism, his combative
spirit and his love of life".
However, they could not resist awarding him the prize for a
graphic passage in his novel "The Castle in the Forest."
The award most dreaded by authors was established in 1993 by
the late Auberon Waugh when he was editor-in-chief of The
Literary Review. Previous winners have included U.S. writer Tom
Wolfe and British author Sebastian Faulks.
Mailer, renowned for his biting prose, penchant for
controversy and larger-than-life personality, had provoked and
enraged readers with his acerbic views on U.S. politics and the
wars in Vietnam and Iraq.
The winning passage, which leaves little to the imagination,
begins: "So Klara turned head to foot and put her most
unmentionable part down on his hard-breathing nose and mouth and
took his old battering ram into her lips."
Bukowski was a master of cynicism & bad sex....

Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement. ~

Charles Bukowski

BTW - surely this is a sandpit thread?
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Default Re: And the "Bad Sex in Fiction" award goes to.....

Originally Posted by Confucius
There Ain't no such thing as "bad sex'...
Bad Sex: Having sex with a woman whilst simultaneously discussing shipping companies.
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Bad Sex: Having sex with a woman whilst simultaneously discussing shipping companies.
Do you do that often ???
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Do you do that often ???
Believe me, once was enough.
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