The finalists for the 2010 Delete Key Awards for bad writing in books are:
THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES (Doubleday) by Ben Mezrich.
BIG MAN (Grand Central) by Clarence Clemons and Don Reo.
FINGER LICKIN’ FIFTEEN (St. Martin’s) by Janet Evanovich.
GOING ROGUE (Harper) by Sarah Palin.
IT SUCKED AND THEN I CRIED (Simon Spotlight) by Heather Armstrong.
THE LOST SYMBOL (Doubleday) by Dan Brown.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (Quirk) by Seth Grahame-Smith.
PYGMY (Doubleday) by Chuck Palahniuk.
STORIES FROM CANDYLAND (St. Martin’s) by Candy Spelling, and MOMMYWOOD (Simon Spotlight) by Tori Spelling (tie).
THE WHOLE TRUTH (Vision/Hachette) by David Baldacci.
Honorable Mention: MENNONITE IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS (Holt) by Rhoda Janzen.
You can read the shortlisted passage from a book by clicking on the title on the list above. The Delete Key Awards winner and runners-up will be announced on March 15. If you would like to try to lobby for or against a title, please leave a comment on this post or any of the posts linked to on the shortlist.
One-Minute Book Reviews 
Another job well done. By you that is. The authors? Not so much.
Comment by Jon — February 25, 2010 @ 6:16 pm |
Thanks, Jon! The awards had an added dimension for me this year because more and more editors are speaking out on the Web saying, in effect, “People don’t appreciate all that we do” (as in this recent post on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carole-baron
).
But some of these awards really make you wonder about what editors do all day, don’t they?
Jan
Comment by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — February 25, 2010 @ 8:40 pm |