Rowan Somerville took this year’s “Bad Sex” in literature award, for the following passage in his novel, The Shape of Her. Often awarded to moistly verbose descriptions of the mechanics, this time the judges favored the Irish author’s brief but utterly disabling similes.
[It was] like the upturned nose of the loveliest nocturnal animal, sniffing in the night.
Mr. Somerville was describing a nipple. [Businessweek]