I admit, I'll probably read Dan Brown's new "The Lost Symbol," but that said, I still found this roundup of his 20 worst sentences pretty funny. (Via Metafilter.)Some of them are straight outta the Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest. I especially liked (liked?) "Physicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own." Um, yuck?
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My uncle won that competition one year, and appeared on a MentalFloss.com quiz. I am inordinately proud of this. :)
This sounds like a hoot! I so enjoy purposly poor prose - there's far too much of the accidental. This sounds like some amusing unintentionally funny stuff.
Another related great read that ALWAYS provides me with a laugh or two are these truly awful metaphors. So funny!
Darryll
http://shesgotpotential.blogspot.com/2008/01/truly-awful-metaphors.html
I'm thinking that he might have noticed that his flesh was on fire by the PAIN, possibly before actually smelling it.
Cristiane
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