Sarah Palin needs to go far away

[Drake Tungsten]

The point is, you didn't "gotcha" anyone on the board.

With a little more raunchiness, she could win the annual bad sex writing awards.

It was less successful than I had hoped, but it was worth a shot.

[Lorizael]

I'm not saying we didn't believe it was from her book. I'm saying we don't care.

[Drake Tungsten]

I was hoping for more vitriol, it's true.

[ShaneWalter]

The point is, you didn't "gotcha" anyone on the board.

It was less successful than I had hoped, but it was worth a shot.

Unless Asher has professed some love for Obama's writing, then there really is no 'gotcha' there. Or do you believe the sentence was actually well written and that it is only people's hate for Palin that caused the critical response?

[Kuciwalker]

It's not just long; it's melodramatic.

It's not just long or melodramatic, it doesn't make sense. It mixes tenses like a salad.

[Asher]

The point is, you didn't "gotcha" anyone on the board.

It was less successful than I had hoped, but it was worth a shot.

You call that a gotcha? I don't give a **** who wrote it, it's completely god-awful.

[ShaneWalter]

It's not just long or melodramatic, it doesn't make sense. It mixes tenses like a salad.

The sentence is long, and overly melodramatic (though I'd have to read the rest of the sentences to see if it really is melodramatic, or if the drama maybe was deserved). I don't really see anything grammatically wrong with it, though. Where are the mixed tenses?

[Theben]

I guess Obama needs to read more magazines.

[Drake Tungsten]

Damn...

Palin book sells a million copies

NEW YORK – "Going Rogue" has sold a million copies.

HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Tuesday that just two weeks after publication, Sarah Palin's memoir has sold 1 million copies. The print run for "Going Rogue" has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to 2.5 million.

"Going Rogue" joins a select club of million-selling political memoirs that includes Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope," Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" and Bill Clinton's "My Life."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091201/ap_en_ot/us_books_palin

[rah]

Being in the "SELECT CLUB" does not increase my desire to read it. (or any of the other books in that club either)

[Asher]

I'm confused. Is it a picture book? How can her supporters understand the contents?

[rah]

they bought it for the cover art.

[Drake Tungsten]

It will be interesting to see if she can outsell Slick Willy. He sold 2.2 million of his memoir, so she might have a chance.

[Ben Kenobi]

Cover art? You obviously haven't seen the centerfold.

[Drake Tungsten]

With a little more raunchiness, she could win the annual bad sex writing awards.

She didn't win...

Bad sex prize claimed by egg orgasm

Acclaimed author Jonathan Littell, who won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for his novel The Kindly Ones, has picked up another, slightly less coveted prize - the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award.The annual prize was contested by literary heavyweights Philip Roth for The Humbling, John Banville for The Infinites and Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand.

However. Littell's ill-advised use of a soft-boiled egg as a simile for orgasmic release saw him beat off the competition to take the prize.

The judges praised what they called Littell's 'ambitious and impressive' novel, which was originally published in French, and sold over 1million copies in its original language.

'It is in part a work of genius,' they said.

'However, a mythologically inspired passage and lines such as "I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg" clinched the award for The Kindly Ones.

'We hope he takes it in good humour,' they added.

Littell was not expected to attend the prize ceremony in London.

Other passages that helped Littell claim the prize include one sentence that begins 'The dry and nervous orgasm, almost spermless, tore me open as a fish knife would...' and the 'mythologically inspired' section which includes the phrase 'If only I could still get hard, I thought, I could use my pr*** like a stake hardened in the fire, and blind this Polyphemus who made me Nobody.'

The award was established by Auberon Waugh in 1993, designed to draw attention to the 'crude, tasteless, and often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary novels, and to discourage it.'

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/802470-bad-sex-prize-claimed-by-egg-orgasm