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Summary: life, or something like it
Review: This book is one of the best books i have ever read. It touched me more than i thought a book could ever do. It shows more feeling and emotion than you could imagine. It is my favorite book, period.
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Summary: Infinite pleasure
Review: I've heard various praise about this book, so I decided to buy it. And I was certainly not disappointed.
The book tackles many issues about growing up and teenage angst. It is also therefore often compared to catcher in the rye, but a little less cynicism and a little less heavy.
I found Charlie a very relatable person, which to me is always important in a book. If I can relate in any way to the character it captures me.
It has given me new insights on things and opened me to new experiences.
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Summary: Fun, interesting view of being a freshman.
Review: In the realistic novel, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," Stephen Chbosky shows you the life of a freshman in high school through the perspective of Charlie. His unique style of writing, in journal entries, allows the book to be fun and easy to read. The author talks about all the possible components, drugs, peer pressure, sex, and dealing with family and friends, which you would go through in high school. There is no main story line, instead the author talks about many incidents that happen to Charlie and the people around him.Charlie has internal and external struggles such as not trying to like Sam because she has a boyfriend and she told him in the beginning, which changes later on, that she did not see him in the same way. Peer Pressure in doing well in school and being as successful as his older brother, smoking to fit in or drinking at parties to be with the "in crowd". These are all factors that each person goes through at one point or another and you have to make the choices. Some of the incidents that happen throughout the book are, Charlie's friend Patrick is gay and Patrick can not be open about being a homosexual. Patrick likes Brad, one of the popular students on the football team, and Brad dates Patrick for a little bit but Brad does it secretly. At one point Sam and her boyfriend, Craig, break up and that is devastating for Sam and for Charlie because he does not like to see Sam sad. Charlie also goes out with Mary Elizabeth but he does not really like her and much more. Charlie learns to deal with all his problems and at the end of the book everything comes together. The book wraps up similar to how the school year ends, with a few last-minute twists and closure. The main point of this story is that even though you may have ups and downs in your life, in the end it all works out.
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Summary: Despicable!
Review: This is one of the worst books I have ever read. It is filled with one-dimentional side characters (your token gay guy, your token formerly promiscuous girl, your token abusive boyfriend, your token confused jock, your token liberal and accepting English teacher, ect.) as well as the most annoying and utterly braindead protagonist I have ever heard of. All Charlie does is sit around and obsess about others, never doing anything for himself. At the end of the novel, I was left wondering if he suffered from some form of high-functioning autism. He cannot write for himself; everything notable that he writes is either intended for Bill or the mysterious recepiant of his letters to read. To rub salt in the wounds that I personally endured reading this book, Charlie becomes a big fan of Ayn Rand's masterwork The Fountainhead and wonders what she would think of him. If any of you are at all acquainted with her Objectivist theory (living for yourself, not submitting to what others wish of you), then you will know exactly how infuriating this is to me. Don't waste your time with this droll.
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Summary: Makes kids want to read again!
Review: This book convinced me to read again after having been scared by bad books in school since the third grade. Between my friends and me, it goes down in history as the best book ever written.
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Summary: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Review: One great book, which illustrated the hard ships of growing through the eyes of a teenager. Humorist and serious at different sections within the story. I really enjoyed how the book was written because it was more personal, written in journal form. This book will help other teens and maybe even some parents to understand their gaps a little better. I highly recommend this book to teens and parents. I thought this story was going to be boring because all it mainly talks about is the life and the struggles of different situations that one faces in growing up being different, unaccetped, drug, and understanding ones self.
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Summary: The teenage life we all don't want to see
Review: A Review by Amy Charlie writes to an anonymous reader about his daily life of how his life is and becomes. Charlie goes through a lot of different events of is first year at high school. Charlie runs into drugs, alcohol, smoking, sex , teen pregnancy, aloneness, abuse and a lot more. But then Charlie also runs into great things as well friendship, first dates and being apart of something instead of just watching. Charlie shares is good times and bad times and his most deepest thoughts in this letters to someone he doesn't know.
I really enjoyed this book a lot! What I liked about it was that the author created real teen scenarios. For an example peer pressure caused Charlie to start smoking. I found a lot of these scenarios I could see happening to a lot of people. Another part of this book I loved was the author wrote it really well so that reader would get involved with the story. For an example when he had feelings towards Sam and didn't tell her I just wanted to tell him that he should tell her! Another really good part about this book was that the author made you always guessing what is going to happen next? Like when Charlie came home one night after a party and was writing all weird I just wonder what was going on then later I found out that he took LSD. There were a lot of surprises in this book that was one of the many reasons why I loved this book.
I recommend this book to people that want to see what some teenagers have to deal with and that life isn't so "peachy" all the time. I would also recommend this book to people that have a lot of problems to deal with so that they can see that they are not all alone that there are people out there like them.
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Summary: Not great, but not too bad either
Review: I just finished reading this book for my honors English class at school after nine days. In its defense, I will say that I actually could identify with at least half the things that happened to Charlie. After all, the period of Charlie's life in which the book takes place is the period of my life I am going through this very moment. In its defense, I will say that while the characters are rather one-sided, Patrick and Sam seem like the kind of kids I would like to have for friends. Against it, however, I will say that, as other reviewers have pointed out, Charlie is a very unrealistic character. In my own life I am often a wallflower, but I don't cry every time I get sentimental or upset. Teenagers don't cry, they say "GOD ...!!" and kick a chair across the room. I agree with the other reviewers that Chbosky keeps trying to present Charlie as a sensitive, noble, gifted person, when in fact he is nothing more than a whiny teen with severe mental problems. His naivete is annoying because it's more like an eight-year-old than a sixteen-year-old. But again, in its defense, I will argue against what the negative reviewers say about the writing style. Pay attention to the letters you write and you will see that people, even in real life, never WRITE the way they TALK. I sure as hell don't. I write the way I THINK, and that's quite different from the way I talk. Do people SAY "You are cordially invited"? No, that's the formality of writing a letter. Think these things through before you write them. At any rate, I can't say I enjoyed "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". It was too long, there was little point to it and the last 20 pages or so were quite disturbing. But some of it was still pretty enjoyable reading, so I conclude that "The Perks Of Being a Wallflower" is a good, if by no means excellent, book.
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Summary: You were only waiting for this moment to be free...
Review: Stephen Chbosky's Charlie is a teenaged nobody. He doesn't go to the school dances, doesn't have any close friends and is inclined towards wallflower-ish behaviour. This all changes when he meets Patrick and Sam- then Charlie is saved. The reader is invited into his naive world, strung through his emotional ups and downs.Charlie lets you forget that the 'chapters' are a series of letters, and lets you believe you're going through all this with him. We're there when he gets his first kiss, his first heartbreak, and his discovery of some really great music.
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Summary: One of the best books i've read
Review: "The Perks.." is such a wonderfully great book, after i read it i just fell in love with the main character. I liked how Chbosky used Charlie's letters to a friend to tell the his story, this way of writing reminded me of a another great book i have read "the Color Purple". After reading the book it left me feeling like i personally know Charlie and all of the other characters in the book, of all the books i have read i sometimes disagree with the endings but the ending in this book was an exception.
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