Bulwer-Lytton Contest
Here are [the results of this year's Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest](Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest) to produce the worst opening sentences of imaginary novels. An example:
The day started out as uneventfully as any other, and continued thus to midday and from there it was nothing at all to ease into an evening of numbing, undiluted monotony that survived unmarred by even the least act of momentary peculiarity-in fact, let's skip that day altogether and start with the day after.
Jon Starr
Rumford, ME
Comments
crywolf on Aug. 19, 2008 7:57 PM
That sounds like something Douglas Adams would have written.
users on Aug. 20, 2008 3:30 AM
Haha, I just said the same thing to my fiance and came here to write it down...bad sentence nothing; Douglas Adams made his mark with sentences just like this one...and I adore him for it!
brendand on Aug. 20, 2008 12:24 AM
That was so bad I had to force myself to get through it.
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