This year's Bulwer-Lytton Awards...

[snakebitcat]

For those of you who don't know about them, the B-L awards are an annual contest in which people submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Edward Bulwer-Lytton was the writer who gave us the immortal opening line "It was a dark and stormy night," with which all fans of Snoopy's novel-writing career should be familiar.

To read more, go to http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2002.htm

Comments

oh.my.gods.

[prufrock.livejournal.com]

i feel "troubled, troubled like a beeping thing not beeping." pf.

[wrapper.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I can't believe they'd list all those entrants' phone numbers on the web like that!

Cup of Joe????

[wymzie.livejournal.com]

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaak!
I may never drink coffee, again.

Ugh

[nyyki.livejournal.com]

You must die for exposing something like that to me after I had to deal with a government office in the same day.

Be looking over your shoulder for lizard like aliens carrying bats.....

Some of those were "real winners"

[ferelwing.livejournal.com]

I think I liked the Norweigen one best.. Though it was hard to read *laugh*... Of course the spider in the space suit was funny... More's the pity that this sort of humor is not found in regular books (you know compilations of the silliest things every written).