Extracts from the Guardian's 'Bad Sex Awards'

More extracts -all from http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/25/david-guterson-bad-sex-award

• The winner

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  David Guterson comes first in Literary Review's bad sex in fiction award
  The author of Snow Falling on Cedars wins the prize for his fifth novel, Ed King, a modern rewrite of the story of Oedipus

• Read extracts from the other shortlisted novels

• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami: Bad sex award extract
• 11.22.63 by Stephen King: Bad sex award extract
• Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller: Bad sex award extract
• The Great Night by Chris Adrian: Bad sex award extract
• Parallel Stories by Peter Nádas: Bad sex award extract
• Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy: Bad sex award extract
• The Final Testament of The Holy Bible by James Frey: Bad sex award extract
• Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas: Bad sex award extract
• The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M Auel: Bad sex award extract
• On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry: Bad sex award extract
• The Affair by Lee Child: Bad sex award extract

• Comment

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  Bad sex writing is often a tough guy act
  Natalia Antonova: As the bad sex awards loom again, it's time to ask why so much good fiction features so many bad sex scenes
• Why are male writers so bad at sex scenes?