Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a writer whose name has become synonymous with bad prose. He gives his name to the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which seeks to identify the worst examples of writing of the year. This year’s contest winners have just been announced.
I particularly like the winner of the Vile Puns section (having a weakness for puns):
As Johann looked out across the verdant Iowa River valley, and beyond to the low hills capped by the massive refrigerator manufacturing plant, he reminisced on the history of the great enterprise from its early days, when he and three other young men, all of differing backgrounds, had only their dream of bringing refrigeration to America’s heartland to sustain them, to the present day, where they had become the Midwest’s foremost group of refrigerator magnates.
And I quite like this entry, which got a dishonourable mention:
Hardly a day passed without poor Matilda looking back on her life and ruing that fateful day she decided that to cut her toenails with her father’s scythe to make up that extra four minutes she had wasted listening to "Muskrat Love" by the Captain & Tennille.
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