[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: bulwer lytton contest results
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:46:00 -0700 (PDT)
Yes, my favorite was the 1993 grand prize winner. It's difficult for me to
read the entire sentence, it's so atrocious. The contest started out 25 years
ago with having one winning sentence and a few runner-ups, but as more and more
people submitted their sentences, they made categories - worst opening sci-fi
sentence, worst western, worst romance, etc. - but they still have one grand
prize winner who, by the way, receives a "pittance" for his/her hard work.
It's actually fairly difficult to write a truly horrible sentence.
There are a couple of books about the contest and its winning sentences for
sale at amazon.com for under a dollar. I'll pick them up and put them in the
collection. There's another book with more contest results selling for $60,
which I'll pass on. No idea why there's such a discrepancy in price.
Carrie
Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I absolutely love your all-time favorite. Did it ever
win?
I'll send you some sentences from John Updike's The
Terrorist. I think they'd be winners.
Cindy
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