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Summary: Just Amazing and Inspiring
Review: I really can't explain how much I loved this book as well as I wish I could. It was inspirational for me and as a teenager I completely identified with many of Charlie's experiences. I read it in one night and I just didn't want to stop reading it. I def recommend this book.
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Summary: Dedicated to someone you probably know.
Review: Like many of the readers below, I read this book in a few hours after borrowing it last night for no other reason than the qwerkiness of it's title. I'm not going to talk about the story because there's plenty of that already here, but I will say that I was quickly drawn into this character, "Charlie," and couldn't help but continue reading until I was finished. I can readily identify with some of what the character is going through, (which is probably what drew me to the title), but there's a great deal more here than I expected and the surprise ending adds a whole new level to a book that otherwise deals with various serious topics from what almost seems a casual, matter of fact, speculative and completely objective point of view. I do know someone with similar life experiences to "Charlie," and was left at the end of the book feeling as if I understood them a little better and wondering if the point of Mr. Chbosky's story was not so much whether or not there are "perks" associated with "being a wallflower" as there are potential skeletons in everyone's closet that would best be dealt with directly rather than hidden from our own inner-view. This book is very well written and I came to Amazon hoping to find more by it's author. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be anything else, so for those of you similarly looking, I'd like to recommend anything by Nick Hornby, (High Fidelity, Being Good & About a Boy), the first author to get me reading non-stop again since I first read Stephen King's "Christine" back in 1984.
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Summary: Outstanding book, read it in a few hours
Review: My girlfriend told me I should read it, and after her telling me how much she was into it, I asked her to let me borrow it. From beginning to end I couldn't put the book down. Maybe from my perspective as a teenager I could relate with so much of what Charlie was saying. I would recomend this book to anyone growing up right now. The book pulls you in and sort of makes you Charlies best friend. I would recommend this book.
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Summary: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Review: I was a little skeptical about this book before I began. It's an MTV book. MTV is all about music.. not reading or writing, but I decided to give it a chance. It's rather small, and it's very easy to read. The main character, Charlie, is a boy who is a freshman, a geek, and a loner until he meets Patrick and Sam. They are seniors, and they accept him into their group of friends. Charlie soon falls in love with Sam, but Sam does not want him to, and he'd do anything to make her happy, so he tries not to. He dates her friend but ruins it when he kisses Sam in front of everyone. Charlie also has to deal with his sister and her abusive secret boyfriend, his brother's sports career, and Patrick's problems with his ex-boyfriend. In the end Charlie is left alone when all of the people he knows and love go off to college. I really enjoyed this book. It was written all in letters. Charlie wrote letters anonymously to someone who we never know. The only indication about the mystery letter reciever is that he didn't have sex with someone when he could have. I think it is very interesting that Charlie would choose this means of getting his emotions out rather than using a journal or diary. I feel that the book has an air of sadness over the whole thing, like Charlie is never really happy, but at the same time it's not a sad book, even when sad things really do happen. I liked this book a lot, and I'd recomend it to anyone who likes books like The Cather and the Rye or A Seperate Peace. It is, to me, a semi-modernized version of these.
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Summary: the perks of reading the perks of a wallflower
Review: honestly, i probably should give stephen chbosky's the perks of being a wallflower a perfect 5 out of 5; but i generally never give anyone or anything a perfect score. although, it was a great read and on my top two list. the other being all 7 books of clive staples lewis's the chronicles of narnia. picked it up in the library, fell for it and borrowed it. as soon as i got home, i read it all night. liked it so much and told my cousin about it. she enjoyed it too! she related so well to the protagonist and the funny part is that she likes the smiths just as the charcater did. well, she was in high school during that era. the thing about the book is that everyone can relate to its coming-of-age theme. whether it's the smiths that are hot or incubus is the latest thing, everyone has their favorite bands. i also recommend the song "asleep" by the smiths. sad but beautiful. the perks of being a wallflower has an easy flow making it easy and enjoyable to read. the only low of the perks is that i feel the charcater charlie talks as if he doesn't belong in high school; his speech seems too juvenile and naive. or maybe, i just like to think that high school kids are mature considering i myself am still in high school. but, come on what freshmen doesn't know what masturbation is? i've known it since first grade, but then again that is quite early... anyway, the gist: i recommend it. last comment: there is a bit of charlie in all of us! and don't forget to check out "asleep" by the smiths. lastly,i apologize for my disarray of thoughts.:)
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Summary: What perks?!
Review: I picked this book up since I've been hearing a lot of good stuff about it. However, I slowly started getting tired of Charlie's unexciting lifestyle but forced myself to keep reading for the sake of finishing the book, but I just gave up and looked for another read. I couldn't find myself relating to any of the characters or even emphatizing with any of them. Charlie is a social outcast because he lets himself be that way. He's just a sad boy waiting for something exciting to happen to him, instead of going out there and looking for it himself. People like that bother me! From reading his thoughts, even I wouldn't want to befriend him because he's BORING. The "friends" he make are also [sad](nothing but drugs, drinking, sex) and I just got tired of reading and reading and not finding anything to be happy about for Charlie. If you really want to see for yourself, just borrow it from someone else who has it. This book is a good read for the class pariah. But I'm sure if you weren't anything like him in high school, you won't go past page 50 on this one.
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Summary: a great book...
Review: This book was recommended to me by a friend. I loved it. If I say too much I will ruin the book, but basically the book is about a teenager who is coming to terms with a friend's suicide. It deals with love, sex, depression, life, death, and friendship. Anyone no matter what age will get something good out of reading this book. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: The Perks of Being a wallflower is the best book i have ever read. I'm 13 and ive just finished this book its very real and he talks about actual things its almost like it happened to him its just undescribable how insanely good this book is i cant say enough to put out how perfect this book really is recommened by one of my friends, probably the best author of all time in my perspective anyway.. (my friend is) recommened this and now hes over powered her... kinda haha they level up but its just.. im just rambling now arent i... well its the best book you should really read it i swear you'll never be able to put it down.
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Summary: "the perks of being a wallflower"
Review: After all my friends had read it, after all of them told me it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, i figured i might pick it up. took me about 3 hours to read it, and several more for it to sink in.
charlie, the boy writing letters, is obviously every emo teenager's best friend. he's smart. he's quiet. he's emotional.
there is nothing really remarkable about charlie; and that is what makes this book good: charlie is not singled out as being superior, or inferior. just on a different plane. and what makes the book even better, is that chbosky works with that and makes it something engaging.
it's pretty much everything you'd expect of a book published by mtv: cliched, high school, and fast enough to keep those with ADD occupied.
the journal form is very interesting to read; it involves the reader to a great extent. charlie's letters are to you. and that just makes the experience even better. a good first novel, i should hope to see that chbosky writes another one.
~A
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Summary: cliche lite
Review: This book was glowingly recommended by 2 friends (adult males). I'm still not sure why. Highly derivative and cliche ridden, the broad and fully expected stereotypes cruising through this year of high school were a complete bore. No surprise, no complexity, not believable that an uber-genius would write this way. Were I still in high school (or better yet, jr. high) it would be an enjoyable read. For those of us closer to Charlie's chronological age, it's probably just pleasant nostalgia for gen x ex-nerds. Skip the book and listen to the Smiths.
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