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Summary: The perks being inspired
Review: I found this book on a shelf in a huge bookstore, among large hardbacks. It looked lonely, so I picked it up. And here I am four years later now a sophmore in college and am still effected this little green book that I read straight through on the way home. I have read it countless times, the binding is worn, the front cover falling off, and I still go back to it. This book has become part of me, a sort of literary home if you will.
So many of us look for something inspiring, not just mere amusement, when we walk through the stacks. Here it is. I am not saying that this book is for everyone, because it's not. It is for those who know what it is like to want something more. Charlie will change everyone, he can teach us all something about not fearing our humanity or our sadness. I found myself in this book, I hope that you can too.
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Summary: Puts Catcher in the Rye to shame
Review: This book is written in an amazing style the characters are unforgettable and believable. If any one thinks that dumb catcher book is good. I implore you to open you're eyes to this book.
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Summary: perks
Review: I couldnt put the book down. I just loved it.
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Summary: Best Book I ever read!
Review: I don't usually enjoy reading. Most books are long-winded and boring and overrated, but I totally loved The Perks of Being a Wall Flower. In fact, I can't remember the last time I enjoyed reading a book this much! I actually LOOKED FORWARD TO the time I had alone with the book, and that almost never happens to me. Please check it out. Another short, snappy book I liked: The Losers' Club by Richard Perez. I think schools should throw out all those boring "classics" and start a brand-new list!
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Summary: Beyond a great book.
Review: I have to say, before i read this book, i didn't have a favorite book. I have one now. I have read this book over 5 times, and it has the same effect on me still. I think i may be in love with the main character, Charlie. I relate to this book, being in the whole highschool scene myself, and it baffles me how stephen chbosky portrays it all so accuratly, and with such truth. I can imagine everyone of these characters vividly. I feel like i know all these people, and maybe one of these days i will find a charlie. this book is written in a style of innocence, i think. maybe it is just an ironic mask for what is really going on in the book. you can not get bored with this book. every page, every letter (if you are put off by this format in a book, don't be, you can hardly remember its written in letter-form at all), is a small story, and all written with the same amount of intricate observation.It is beautiful.
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Summary: The Perks of Being a Reader
Review: OK, so there are a lot of people on here who did not like this book. I guess I can see their point of view, but try mine. This is one of the first books I have ever read that was written for teens, but was not sugar-coated and dumbed-down to a 'highschool level'. Chbosky writes as most highschoolers I know would. He doesn't pull any punches with the language or the subject matter.
Some people on here have said that they can't relate to the situations Charlie gets into. Well, I hate to break it to you, but for a lot of kids, that's what highschool is like. Although I have not been through all of the same situations as Charlie, I have been through many of them, and Chbosky relates them perfectly. Reading this book, some of the passages seemed to almost flow out of my own memory.
After reading this book I felt very content. Chbosky was able to make me care about the characters. For the first time in awhile, I was visibly affected by the struggles and triumphs of a character in a book.
The device of writing the book as a series of letters was great. I have read one other book written this way and both were excellent. Someone on here said that if the book is written as a series of letters, Charlie wouldn't have written in paragraphs or used quotes and proper punctuation. I would like to say that all the letters I write are written this way.
Basically, I think you just have to let yourself enjoy this novel. If you go in thinking that Charlie is just another dumb kid, don't bother. Let yourself get inside his emotions and the emotions of those around him.
If you liked this book, I also suggest reading the classic (at least in my opinion) Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
It's kind of a coming of age story, but the main character is, well, a seagull.
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Summary: no words can describe
Review: i'm not going to write a summery of the book. that would be pointless because this books summery did not mean much to me. i loved this book, but not because of the plot. i loved the main charchter, charlie. i loved the way he thought. how simple he was, how much of a 'wallflower' he really was. this book tied up my insides and made me cry. and smile. and i loved it. and you will too.
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Summary: An Unmitigated Look At The Adolescent
Review: Not just for Gen-Yers, _The Perks Of Being A Wallflower_ can be enjoyed and celebrated by anyone searching for the life they may have lost. Be it distant memories of childhood or vivid visions of everyday life, this book will conjure the emotions and angst of teens and adults alike. A beautiful tale of aggression told through the medium of letters to an anonymous recipient, we follow the life of the ruesome Charlie as he discovers what it means to love himself. A suprisingly mature thinker, Charlie bounces from cloud to cloud, emotion to emotion, like a pinball. Having never possessed a true identity of his own, the protagonist fights an outside world that seems too harsh and literal for his sheltered lifestyle. Yet he is so courageous and innocent as he strikes out to make his own memories; one might find inspiration in his nerve, one he dons in the face of ridicule, hatred, feelings of inferiority, and interactions with people--the main focus of the plot. Chbosky is a genius for constructing an anthem of disallusionment and difficulty in adolescence. Read this novel, and you will look at yourself, and the memories of bygone childhood struggles, as the summation of a brilliant set of experiences and a landscape of innumberable detail. Wasn't it all worth it?!
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I'm not quite sure if words can describe it but i am blown away by this book in every aspect. It's amazing. The author mixes humour with sadness and the reality of life out side the comfy suburbs that i live in, where its easy to pretend nothing truly bad is out there. I find it inspirational, and my emotions were keyed in to theprotaganists feeling. I felt like I was in the book. As Charlie, the main character's life started getting better I started feeling better, it opened up my perspective and the way i view the world. I would strongly suggest this book to anyone and everyone no matter who they are. I loved it.
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Summary: Sweet Tale of Coming of Age -- Truly
Review: I'll admit at first I was a bit put off by the overall "sweetness" of the main character, who I felt was created as a "sympathetic" movie-character fabrication (he loves his mom, loves his dad, loves his sister, loves his brother...it made me roll my eyes, seeing how "good" and "nice" this boy was; not since Leave It To Beaver have I seen such a "goodness" portrayed), but in the end the book won me over -- and I was moved by it. And that's what counts. The novel works! The only other book to affect me this way, despite my early misgivings, was The Losers' Club by Richard Perez. In much the same way the protagonist of that book was portrayed as a "good guy," a hapless loser -- and I couldn't get into it until the last half. There, too, I was finally affected by the main character -- and the book as whole. So you never know until the end. I say this to anyone reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- hang in there. I guarantee you'll be moved by this novel!
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