Ah come on! They have an award for what?

From the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4488848.stm

MarkB

Oh, my. There’s a place in the world for the simply and honestly crude; but passages such as “…the eagle eyes of a bunch of crows?” Now that’s tasteless. Perhaps Mr Updike is outsourcing, these days.
:wink:

Several of those would have stand a good chance in the [u]Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest[/u].