The love scene in question:

At this, Eliza and Ezra rolled together into one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.

More review snippets here. One includes the line, "do not read this book." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_Lost#Reception

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[–] 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

bulbous salutation my dudes

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It's like he wrote an already weird sex scene description, then right clicked every word and chose the last synonym on the list.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Someone should start a community for that.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    There was a literary movement called Oulipo that did things like that. What comment-OP described would be a variant of a technique called "n+7": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo#Constraints

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Being a big ou(x)po fan, they at least were good at their work. Highly recommended starting with Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics or If On A Winter's Night A Traveller

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Calvino is absolutely amazing! I devoured Cosmicomics and T Zero when I was in college. The Castleof Crossed Destinies is another one.

    I admit, I had a bit of trouble getting through If On A Winter's Night a Traveler. I'm guessing it lost a lot in translation.

    His book of Italian Folktales is also very good.

    Edit: I just learned about, and ordered, this... a complete collection of the Qfwfq stories, including some never before translated into English- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Cosmicomics

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    On a related note, there's the Bulwer Lytton prize for terribly written introductions to novels. It was based on the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, famous especially for its first line

    It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulwer-Lytton_Fiction_Contest

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    He’s said publicly that he hates sex, so I don’t know what anyone was expecting.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He probably hates sex because it requires him to show up and actually perform.

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    One can imagine him struggling to imagine the scene well enough to write it, then going to a toy shop, buying a Barbie and a Ken and spending the next half hour mashing them against each other in an attempt to visualise it.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    I bought it on account of hearing how bad it was. I wasn't disappointed. It's like The Room in book form, but with unnecessarily flowery language. Brilliantly shite.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    "hello, fellow sex havers"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    That's the worst writing I've ever seen. This guy writes for a living? Do people enjoy his works?

    Edit: no, and no.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Falls completely flat without Johnny Marr's guitar work.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If you read that in Morrissey's voice with "How Soon Is Now" as an earworm, it is slightly titillating.

    ymmv

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't want to kink shame.

    All I know is I don't want anyone's breasts doing a barrel-roll across my howling mouth.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've neen dying at "wacked and smaked" for 10 minutes

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    Can someone feed that quote into the new, anything goes image generator? I wanna see what a bulbous salutation looks like

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    That’s a sentence

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I am going to guess he's just borrowing from something from his past but has trouble translating it into something people would more traditionally get. But ultimately, I don't know too much about Morrissey - other than at one point he was liked culturally (by those who listened to him) and then there was a sharp turn in which he is now greatly disliked. I enjoy The Smiths, although I'm not gunna lie and be absolutely honest in that I found them as an adult. But all things aside I am wondering if it's because he is quite vocal about his opinions and they are quite unfavorable. And once you are seen as an "enemy of the status quo" you are open for ridicule as a whole.

    But also he gave things a go. Eh.

    But I do know he spoke out against meat and the tories. So eh. But someone else is probably way more tuned in on this as a whole over <<< moi.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He's kinda a shithead. And by all accounts enjoys being seen in that light. IMO he claims more than his share for the success of The Smiths. Just listen to any Johnny Marr solo songs and it's clear where their sound came from.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Don't know a damn thing about a damn thing here. I really don't know too much about a, b, or c. I just know folks hate him and that's been pretty consistent for quite some time now. Cunts gunna cunt, but I don't think that's too off from how I hear it is with headmen (is that what they call them?) at the time.

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