Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Summary: Amazing
Review: Amazing is one word to describe this book in my opinion.

I have read many books based on guys opinions and usually their feelings are not expressed as well. Charlie in this book is the sweetest, cutest boy you will ever "know".
He seems to be very caring and he is always worried about other people's lives and is always carrying other people's problems on his shoulders.
Throughout the whole book we learn about his life by reading letters he is writing to us I suppose? So we begin to see things in his eyes and feel things the way he does.
I don't know what it was about this book but it made me love the main character and in a way feel very bad for him because he cared about people so much yet no one really seemed to care about him too much.
I thought this was a very good book and everybody should definately read it!

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Summary: Paint-by-numbers teen angst
Review: This book stands out in my mind as a classic example of trying too hard. Way too hard, as a matter of fact. It is overly sappy, pretentious, and far too unbelievable to ever connect with anyone who isn't a product of the Nirvana generation. The entire book is a blatant attempt at pandering to whiny Gen-Xers(MTV books anyone?). Chbosky wastes no time getting down to business, what with the first-on-the-checklist theme of suicide that appears early on and such. If it isn't apparent, I don't have the same flair for [adultry] as other people my age. I was 16 when I read it and even then I didn't buy into the general message or lack thereof that this work puts on the table. This novel is just paint-by-numbers teen angst with a protagonist so fractured he seems to be a patchwork of every "geek" and "loser" stereotype that exists. When I was a freshman I didn't have the benefit of getting stoned with my tragically hip senior buddies and having [adult relations] with upperclass girls on what seems like a weekly basis. Take it from a real social programming error, Charlie isn't as much of an outcast as Chbosky would have you believe. But, does that make me extremely screwed up and worthy of writing a pretentious teen-angst would-be magnum opus? No, and no. It gets 2 stars for the Pink Floyd reference though.

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Summary: How much do I love it?
Review: Seriously. I love this book oh so much. Honestly, I just might be in love with Charlie. We do have quite a bit in common. It was nice to read about a boy who actually had feelings and was not afraid to talk about them, a boy with some depth... there just aren't enough of those. In literature or otherwise. Sorry guys, if there are any of you I haven't met you. But anyhow, this book is very very very good and I highly recommend it. Especially if you too have thought of yourself as a wallflower.

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Summary: The Perks of being a wallflower
Review: This book was a great read. "The perks of being a wallflower" is about a kid named Charlie. Charlie is a depressed boy newly into high school nd he meets these kids, Sam and Chris, and they become friends. Charlie, Sam, and Chris start hanging out regualry and they introduce Charlie to all kinds of stuff. They introduce to sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the Rocky Horror Picutre Show. It tells about what happens when he experiments with some of this stuff. Charlie also falls in love with Sam but dosen't do anything about except just sit there and wait for her to do something about it.
This book was phenomnial. It was a good read. It would a great book for 16 and up.

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Summary: Woah...anyone who said it was "overrated" i just dont get
Review: Alright guys..everyone on here except for the one guy thought it was amzing so take our word for it. I can connect with Charlie so much. He said that he seemed to wise for his age, yet my friends are like his and I think like him. Maybe in the ninetys things didnt seem like that and teenagers didnt think like that but I definitely do. I never really liked reading but this book had me hooked, im actually upset that its over. I loved it so much. You get so close to the characters you dont want to leave them. Charlie is someone i would definitely wanted to know. He reminds me of someone, someone I can totally understand. This book is too good for words. Best book ive ever read. It gives you knew aspects and theway Charlie thinks is so deep, nothing i would have expected to find at my school library. So read it!!

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Summary: wallflowers
Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower was the best book i have read in a long time. I love all the detail and how the kid finds his place with the group of kids. Charlie was lost in the beginning because he really had no friends and was scared to make new friends. Finally he found two people that accepted him for who he really was. He found out many new things about these people but was not afraid to continue to be with these people. Overall this was an excellent book and i would automatically recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: The perks of being a wallflower
Review: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is a book written in the voice of a highschool social outcast, Charlie, through letters to an anonymous "friend". Throughout the book, Charlie comes out of his shell, makes a few friends, and finds out about a devastating secret about his Aunt Helen. Charlie's views on life, love, and relationships can relate to the readers. His honest thoughts and ideas make the reader think twice. The author, Stephen Chbosky, makes Charlie come alive with his simple, truthful, and easy to read style of writing. Chbosky has a way of taking ideas that I have had myself and putting them into words that almost any reader can connect with. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is probably best for readers 13 and up.

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Summary: Stunning
Review: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" in many ways, reminded me of of "Catcher in the Rye" with one exception - I cared about the characters. Stephen Chbosky weaves a tale of teenage life - angst, love, infatuation, friendship, pot and booze, and not fitting in. The main character, Charlie is just as observant as Holden Caulfield ever was - but replaces resentment and anger with genuine facisnation with people and life in general. You find yourself *caring* what happens to Charlie, Sam, Patrick and Mary Elizabeth. This is a book which so beautifully describes adolescense - using a perfect combination of poetry and prose, along with poignant observations - that it will make you feel every range of emotions possible. I recommend this book highly.

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Summary: And You Thought It Was Overrated .. BAH!
Review: Perks of Being A Wallflower was an amazing book. Not many a book can make me cry, feel like I'm actually there, CARE for the characters as I would a friend. It was all together amazing. I don't see how ANYONE could think it overrated (Patrick Santana). Maybe the kid had good role models for those sorts of things. It's very believeable. And just so amazing. One of the few books I plan on reading again. Personally, I thought it was a lot better than Catcher in The Rye, but then again I didn't care very much for Catcher. Perks of Being A Wallflower helped me to not understand per se, but get a better feeling about guys in their High School and whatnot. I would recommend this book to any and everyone. It was seriously mind-blowingly good. The writing is superb, as was the word choice and had lovely organization. OH IT WAS JUST GREAT!

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Summary: the ex boyfriend book
Review: My ex boyfriend Andrew Flowers showed me this book before we dated. When I read it, I thought that it was really good. I was going to give him this book for his birthday until he cheated on me. This book made me see where he comes from and even though he was a jerk, I still couldn't get over this piece of literature.