Revisiting PINS by Jim Provenzano

I was reading an English assignment that involved a humorous essay about how difficult it is to write about sex let alone a sex scene in literature. I found the essay more educational rather than humorous, although that little paragraph about how Microsoft Word doesn't help the difficulty of writing it was a little bit funny. I'm a geek, so that should not come as a surprise.

In any event, the essay reminded me of a book I bought, read willingly, and enjoyed. If you didn't get the hint from the title what that book is, you really need to read more carefully. I remember reading a one page sex scene between the two main characters somewhere in the book. The reason I remember it is because, not only was it one page long, but it was separate from each of the three "books" within the story. I think that it would be a wee bit too artsy of me to say that the reason for this is because it was suppose to symbolize a special moment in life that has nothing to do with coming of age or growing up like the book's main theme. Either that, or so you can find it faster.

I did see how little in detail the scene was in. It's kind of strange how a book that was written in the last ten years still holds true to what that essay said. Of course it would help if I knew when the essay was written too, but oh well.

Quite the education for someone that was suppose to commit himself to the library but instead committed himself to sleep.