"He lifted her tee-shirt over her head. Her silk panties followed."

[rivkat]

Via BookSlut, this collection of really bad fantasy/sf/horror sentences had some great ones, like the title of this post, some I didn't think were bad enough to remember, and some that actually seemed ok. But then I have a thing for ridiculous metaphors and similes, such as "The wagon lurched forward like an armadillo trying to mate with a very fast duck."

Comments

[nuptse.livejournal.com]

ohgawd. It'sjust. My sides hurt from laughing now.
I really must find this Ibid book. `Don's eyelids fell shut with a silent thud.' Whaa? I can't tell if the man was serious or not.

These are all reasons why one should not write while smoking the crackpipe.

[rydra_wong]

I feel obliged to point out that this is but a mere sampling of Thog's Masterclass, one of the many glories of David Langford's infamous sf newsletter, Ansible:

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Ansible/Ansible.html

There is another representative sampling at:

http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/thog1997.html