The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Summary: The most amazing book EVER
Review: I first read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" in seventh grade, and I didn't really understand it, so I put it down for a while. Three years later, my friend called to tell me that her school was putting on Perks as a play, and invited me to go see it. Being the reader that I am, I immediately read the book, as to understand the plot when I saw the play. At that time, I realized what an amazing book Perks really is. Charlie is a character that almost anyone can identify with. He is very blunt, and tells his story through letters. The story starts on his first day of freshman year, and ends on the first day of his sophomore year...of high school. I recommend this book to everyone!!! I've read mine at least five times in the past two months ;-) and I still love it, I've underlined my favorite passages, there are quite a few, and I am still reluctant to lend the book to anyone, for fear of never getting it back. So buy it, do whatever you can, read Perks and love it!

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Summary: extremely well written
Review: This book was just plain amazing. It's wonderfully written. You will laugh and cry. Although it is an emotional book, it displays how friendship can be very important to one person. Highly recommended!!

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Summary: Wonderful, superb...gaah! just read it!!
Review: This book is fabulous, just awesome. I related so much to this kid and yet still he was utterly alien in his own way. It's a lot about learning to love and be a part of everything instead of just observing and living life through a looking glass. I was almost in love with this kid by the end, he is so adorably naive and yet wiser than the majority of people his age. I loved this, and I'd advise everyone read it. Also, pay special attention to the poem, which I think is on p. 71 or something, anyway you'll know it when you get to it. It's eye opening and amazing and aah! I just can't describe it but it's very much like the book and I wish I knew who wrote it(it was probably Stephen Chbosky though). This is a wonderful, wonderful book and if you've got any qualms with reading a MTV-suggested book swallow them and just read it because it's awesome. It's beautifully written and unique, I could go on for hours but I won't because that would keep you from reading the book, which you should and if you don't, well your missing out on so much. Oh yeah, also read Prozac Nation, Dreamland (all Sarah Dessen books are the greatest), To Kill a Mockingbird, anything by Dorothy Parker or Sylvia Plath because they are geniuses, The Hours (read Mrs. Dalloway first), Sloppy Firsts, um...I guess that's about it.

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Summary: Worst. Novel. Ever.
Review: If you're the type of person who breaks into tears at a Dashboard Confessional concert you might dig this novel -- which is basically two-hundred tortuous pages of whining by some annoying, unfunny, overemotional, pretentious kid who thinks he's a lot smarter than he is. Everyone else steer clear of this cliche-ridden garbage.

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Summary: amazing, simply amazing
Review: I have never read a book that touched me quite as much as the perks did. I have read it four times and never fails to take my breath away. Charlie is the most complex, interesting, wonderful character i have ever encountered in a book. This book tugs at every emotion in the most delicate way. Its beautifully, devistatingly hopeful and you definitely come away from it feeling differently. I did atleast. I think that everyone, from adolescent to elderly should read this book and i hope that it touches their life like it did mine.

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Summary: The Greatest Coming of Age Book Ever
Review: This is a great book for any wallflowers, anyone who's ever had a crush, anyone one who searchs for a chance to be "infinite", for anyone who got in a fight with someone they thought they couldn't, for anyone who has ever felt depressed, for anyone who handled a situation wrong, this is their book. My Favorite contemporary book. The only book I recommend more is the Bible. This is an awesome, amazing,and inspired book.

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Summary: My Best Friend, Charlie.
Review: This book is, in a word, amazing. This book made me cry, laugh, scream, and in the end, it helped me. While many would say that some of the things Charlie experiences are a little too mature for the 'young adult' audience, I disagree. As a high school student, I could relate to 99% of the things he went through. The drugs, the sexuality in question, the abuse, all of it. If I could reccommend one book to anyone, anywhere, it would be this one. Please read it. It may help you, too.

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Summary: Wallflowers have all the fun
Review: A Review by Kylee

The Perk of Being a Wall Flower is about a boy named Charlie and his friendships and new experiences in his first year of High school. He starts out with no friends and being very lonely then as the year goes on he gains new friends and is exposed to drugs, sex and death. By the end of the book you can defiantly tell he has matured by both the way he write and what he writes

This book was amazingly written, there are parts were it leaves you in suspense. For example in his letter dated January 4, 1992 he is talking about a New Years Eve party he went to and the crazy things he did it leaves you wondering what he's talking about then in the very last sentence he says that he never wants to do LSD again. He really improved in the way he writes in the book. In the beginning he seems like a very inexperienced writer and wrote in a very mixed up jumbled way. By the end he is able to clearly express what he is feeling.

This Book was such a great book; I had the hardest time putting it down. In fact didn't I had to read it all in one sitting. Since I have read the book I have referred it to other people and they have come back and told me that it was just as good as I thought it was! This book so great that I think everyone should read it!

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Summary: Great book
Review: I haven't voluntarily completed a book in a while. I got stuck on A Prayer for Owen Meaney, and this was a refreshing change. The final 200 pages took me only a day of school to finish. The sentences are simple and to the point. Like Hemmingway almost. The story itself is a great tale about a boy trying to live a normal life, despite his unique nature. His simple, naive nature allows the reader to understand him completely. Charlie might not ever be normal, but his letters prove that happiness doesn't need to follow a paved road.

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Summary: Fantastic novel
Review: I should probably dock this book some points for being a ripoff of Catcher In The Rye, but I really can't. Chbosky is so aware of the parallels in the books that it's more like a modernization than anything. I've read this book about 14 times. The first time I read this book was right before freshman year, and the last time I read it was right before graduation. Charlie and friends are painted so tangibly that you can almost picture yourself showing up at the Big Boy after a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and hanging out with them. I think that if you like the musical RENT, you'll really enjoy this book. It's very similar in that it is a detailed account describing scattered parts of a year in the life of an interesting group of friends. Buy/read this immediately.