Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Lyttle Lytton bad lit openers: 2005 winners


Like the
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, only shorter. Here's the 2005 roundup of exceedingly horrible bad opening sentences for novels. Among them, this turgid prize-seizer from a writer identified as B. Waldorf:
The spaceship was crashing, but, more importantly, John and Greta were having sex in it.
Link (Thanks, Ryan)

Previously: Carburetor breast fantasy wins award



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