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Summary: OMG!!!
Review: Someone recommended this book to me, and I thought it sounded good so I checked it out. I must tell you, it WAS NOT what I expected at all--it was so much more! I admit that the first few pages I was like "so?" yet they were still pretty interesting to read. As the story progresses, you understand Charlie's personality more, and the book becomes almost impossible to put down (I admit I read it in like 2 days). It's so simply written, yet so meaningful at the same time. The ending is just beautiful... A perfect read for both genders and all ages... Well, maybe not a 5 year old, but you know.
YOU MUST READ IT!!!
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Summary: Simply Wonderful
Review: I just finished reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower after 2 days of my nose in the book - it's that engaging. What a beautiful first novel. "Charlie" made me laugh, cry, and relate to everything he was going through. Very easy to read and difficult to put down once begun. The stories he tells through his letters are heartwrenching, comical, adroit, touching, sad, and hopeful, with a simple yet overwhelming gratefulness for life, love, friends and family. I highly recommend this book to junior high and high schoolers, especially, and to English teachers for that age group as a book to read and discuss in class. Charlie is such a beautiful, sensitive soul, I wish I knew him as a friend. Ultimately uplifting, read this book and feel infinite.
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Summary: A ride on the rollercoaster of emoitions
Review: „The perks of being a wallflower" is the first novel from Stephen Chbosky. The story is about the freshman Charlie, describing his life during his first year at high school. The reader gets to know this through letters, which Charlie writes anonymous to a person with unknown identity, after his friend Michael has committed suicide the year before. You experience his many ups and downs because of different aspects in his life. There is experimenting with drugs, alcohol and cigarettes, exploring sexuality, family tensions and growing up. The seniors Patrick and Sam become Charlie's best friends and integrate him into their circle of friends. There Charlie discovers aspects of homosexual- (...) and heterosexual relationships - (...). At home he has to deal with his family: His mother always worrying about his brother, who is a football-star, and being quite depressed when he again cannot come home; and his sister having problems with boys all time. Over all there stands (...), for which he feels guilty and suffers from attacks quite often.
But at last there will be an unexpected ending, especially as far as Aunt Helen is concerned.
So, go and read that touching story (funny as well as sad): not only nice for youths!!!The two of us really enjoyed the book, so we hope you do as well! march 2004
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Summary: An Honest and Genuinely Moving Novel
Review: This is an awesome book, there almost are no words to describe it, like another rater, I felt 'stunned' after I read it. Charlie is a wallflower meaning that most of the time he goes along with what people he cares about say, and do, but he has a lot of passion. It almost seemed unbelievable that a character who is so emotionally volitale and so innocent and optimistic could exist because of his past circumstances. This book is tear-jerking at times, but it is also optimistic and very hopeful. I think in the end Charlie learns to accept himself and to realize what a special person he is, and also to "participate" with passion. It is a wonderful read for anyone who has been or will be going to high school, and it is easy to read and inspiring. READ IT!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Incredible story!
Review: (...) Until I read ...Wallflower, i didn't think a book of this kind could compete with(...). I loved it because it tells the story in a real aspect, the way teens can understand. I enjoyed how it wasn't glossed over...it told of kids doing drugs and experimenting with their sexuality and suppressing feelings and memories. It was raw and emotional, just like us teens. Any teenage or young adult could appreciate and relate to this book. I found many things to relate to while reading it, and I have never done drugs or experienced the death of a close friend. It's not just a book for suicidal or melodramatic teens, it can touch anyone's heart. Pick up a copy of this book immediately.
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Summary: WAY over rated
Review: This book makes me think I could write a teeny bopper anthem. It makes it look that easy. Just recall my early high school days and exaggerate a little. Social trouble since I wasn't in a clique... lets make that social outcast that no one will talk to... ever. And on top of that, lets make that bother me a lot, and I will be an emotional sissy as well. Charlie really didn't seem very schooled in the art of being a wall flower. Yeah, I understand the death of his aunt and other childhood experiences shook him up. But he was still way too emotional. Too extreme for a character people seem to relate to so well (maybe I was just boring?). Meh, I'll move on. This book is basically the journal of a social idiot. I don't see how anyone could act as poorly around people as the kid in this book does. More than anything, this book made me laugh, because the people the main character was calling his friends seemed to do little more than drug him up so they would have something to laugh at. It was kind of sad, but he put himself in all of these situations. I enjoyed reading it, but not because it was "eye openning" or "inspirational" like I had heard from numerous sources, but because I found it hilarious how naive this kid was. It is like a really bad, really stupid version of Catcher in the rye. I would classify it as utter crap if not for the last 15 pages or so, when it actually delivered a message. But this message is nowhere near ground breaking. Maybe that is just because I am 19 and have had time to figure out the topics it hit for myself. But when I was talking to a couple of friends that had read it, and reading reviews of it, this book was being hailed as a classic. People were calling it their favorite book ever. I just don't see where you can get that. You go through 190 pages of a kid going through unrealistic emotional swings, around people who bury themselves and then whine about it. And then you get 15 pages that are kind of interesting. And that just doesn't make a classic for me. Maybe I am missing something, but I am pretty confident in my reading comprehension skills. It just gets really old reading other people portray this time of life, and then others praising their work as genious.
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Summary: A beautiful book that will make you both smile and cry.
Review: This book was amazing. It is about a freshman named Charlie who is having trouble fitting in to his everyday life, since his aunt died and his best friend committed suicide. It is the story of how he learns to deal. It is much more open and raw than any novel though. This story is made up of letters that Charlie writes to an anonymous character. Charlie is so genuine, caring, and real, that I assure you that you will fall in love with him as well as this book.
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Summary: The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Review: Charlie is a highschool student who keeps a diary on his life. In the book he shares with us everything from new friends, first crushes, parties and much more. He will take you through what seems to be a teenagers typical life.
I would recommend this book to anyone . It pulls you in and leaves you on the edge to keep reading. I would have to give this book a ranking of five out of five for Chbosky's excellent work. I was never into reading before this and the book ended up really surprising me.
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Summary: The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Review: This Book is about a highschool student, Charlie, who writes about all his personal feelings inside a diary. He shares with us everything from new friends, first crushes, parties and more.He takes you through what seems to be a typical teenagers life.
This book was an amazing book that I would recommend to anyone. Once I picked it up to read I couldnt set it back down. Stephen Chbosky is an amazing writer with other great books.After reading this book it made me feel like i already knew who Charlie was. All his secrets and things he might have not told anyone else was all written down in his diary.
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Summary: Pure Garbage
Review: This book is pure garbage. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is for all of the dumb, rich, suburban kids who think the worst pain in the world is being dumped by a crush. Do not think you are intelligent if you read this book. I also am disgusted by the people who say this book is a classic, the classics are Catch-22, Brave New World, any book that send an important social message. So burn this wretched book and actually go expand your horizen of knowledge. P.S. Some people say this book is for liberals, well I'm a liberal my self (and I mean true liberal, not Democratic party liberal) and even though it writes about liberal topics, it does not mean it is going to appeal to liberals. In fact, from the people I see reading it, it seems to mostly appeal to conservatives, who know very little on the subjects.
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