[DeTomaso] NPC: short automotive bad prose

[Charles Engles]

Dear Forum,

 

 

                         I just found this on the Bulwer-Lytton bad writing
website for winners of the 2015 competition for the worst opening sentence
for a fictional novel.   Warning: NPC

 

 

                       " Long overdue for a tune-up, the ancient and
dilapidated 1956 Oldsmobile -- with PowerGlide transmission and power
steering -- wheezed slowly into the gas station, the long, blue plumes of
exhaust looking like a crop duster full of illegal DDT spraying a field of
asphalt."

 

                                             - Ed Buhrer, Louisa, VA

 

 

                           Warmest literary regards,  Chuck Engles

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   Dear Forum,



                            I just found this on the Bulwer-Lytton bad
   writing website for winners of the 2015 competition for the worst
   opening sentence for a fictional novel.   Warning: NPC



                          " Long overdue for a tune-up, the ancient and
   dilapidated 1956 Oldsmobile -- with PowerGlide transmission and power
   steering -- wheezed slowly into the gas station, the long, blue plumes
   of exhaust looking like a crop duster full of illegal DDT spraying a
   field of asphalt."


                                                -- Ed Buhrer, Louisa, VA



                              Warmest literary regards,  Chuck Engles