The Accidental Virgin

Ugh. There were only a few chapters toward the end that were cute and fun. The rest was degrading. As another reader put it: "The woman is running around like crazy willing to bring ANYONE to bed in order to not revirginize herself." Plus there's all sorts of sexual harassment (primarily her employers at a web-based lingerie business implying her job depends on pleasing a pornographer), the glorifying of said pornography, and even casual, callous treatment of drunk driving when Stacy mentions her parents' annual visit to the city from which they drive back having had too much to drink. It's as though Sam from Sex and the City behaved the way she did but didn't enjoy sex at all. Not cool.

Some of the writing is cute though, like using the show more same few lines to describe the character periodically (what was it -- red of hair and pink of cheek? Something like that...)

And the one plot element I liked was the attempts at meeting up with her neighbour but with timing issues, having them leave notes for each other instead.

The blurb on the cover is from the Ottawa Citizen -- neat to see my daily featured but sorta implies that the New York Times, Chicago Tribune et. al. didn't have anything equally positive to say about this book. show less

The Good: The Accidental Virgin is light, funny and doesn't take itself too seriously. Stacey is extremely desperate to get laid and goes to ludicrous lengths to get the job done. The entire book is over-the-top but that's the appeal to reading a novel like this.

The Bad: The book is a very quick, very easy read. So quick and easy that it doesn't make a large impression and that makes it kind of forgettable.

Allow me, please, to give you a slightly better description than the book itself provides:

Stacy is a woman who hasn't had sex in almost a year. A friend sends her an article that says that you become a virgin again if you go without for one year, so Stacy goes on a quest to get laid.

There. Make more sense?

Anyway: I enjoyed this book as a light piece of fluff. It wasn't deep, but it was easy to read and amusing.

Stacy temple has gone without a man in her life since she broke up with Brian. It seemed to be going very well for her until she read an article about women who have gone a year or more without sex are considered to be Revirginized. With only a week left to go before her dreaded one year anniversary Stacy starts her frantic search for a new man. This super funny romantic comedy was hard to put down and ended much to soon.

I wasn't too crazy about this book. The woman is running around like crazy willing to bring ANYONE to bed in order to not revirginize herself. Was a cute, funny, light read, but didn't really stimulate the intellect in any way.

So apparently if you go without sex for a year you're a born-again virgin, when Stacy realises this she's determined to lose her virginity again.

Didn't really impress me

Very smutty, quick read. Predictible and sort of sad. This woman looking for sex.
5/26/03