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Summary: Predictable Yet Enjoyable
Review: Stephen Chbosky's first novel is funny, touching, memorable and with precise accuracy and precision depicts the voice of a boy in brink of adulthood trying to place himself in a ever changing world of deceitful appearances and every day small talk. Charlie is incredibly intelligent which is demonstrated by the commentary he gives on the games his fellow peers play and the hypocrisy of them. Yet he does not judge on them. Charlie is merely a spectator in a world that revolves around magazines and love hate relationships. The tittle of the book indicates he is a wallflower. Charlie speaks through letters to a anonymous person which later on in the book it is revealed that person is associated with is past. The letters follow the format a story teller would use describing his many anecdotes in a entertaining and engaging way. They in a sense are a journal of his daily activities. His personal trials and tribulations are easily relatable to anyone attending high school. With the help of his close group of friends consisting of Samantha, Patrick and Bill he manages to avoid depression for most part of the book but the shocking revelation of the abuse done to him by his Aunt Helen sends him into a psychotic world. He recovers to tie loose ends in the epilogue and start his sophomore year.The book contains some well written fiction that emerges the reader in the point of view of Charlie. At times some letters are incoherent and incomprehensible until it is revealed that Charlie was doing drugs at that point in time. This book makes a good read for high school due to the probable empathy shared by high school age readers and the ambiguity between the books reality and readers reality. With all its good qualities the plot is predictable half way through the book, hence the four star rating. This embellishes from the joy of reading the book. Yet the remainder of the entertaining letters redeem the book as a whole. As said earlier "predictable yet enjoyable".
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Summary: absolutely wonderful
Review: This has been the most "real" book I have ever read. I am 18, and when I read this book, it took me back a few years to when I was 15 and 16 and going through the same things Charlie was. Smoking pot, drinking, smoking, loving... everything your typical, rebellious teenager does. The way the book is written out, in letter form was also very brilliant on Stephen's part. What a wonderful way to catch a reader's attention! After reading the book, in which I read in only one day at school, I downloaded the song "Asleep" by The Smith's, and I totally understood the way Charlie related to the song. It is now one of my favorites. When I have children, this will definately be a book I will share with them.
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Summary: wonderful
Review: my brother gave me this book for my 17th birthday. i usually don't read books that aren't assigned in school during the year, but i thought that this looked interesting. well i am now glad that i took the time to start reading this book because within 4 days i was finished with it. i absolutly loved it. it made me think about things. about how we are all different and how we all have our own problems. i think that every person can identify with charlie at some point of the book, and i know i did. i recomend this book 100%
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Summary: A truly touching story.
Review: This is a wonderful story of a boy going through one of life's most difficult years. Charlie is a freshman in high school and is very intelligent, shy, awkward, and lonely. He makes a couple of friends, older than Charlie, who change his life forever. His family, English teacher, and friends help pull him out of his shell and uncover a tereible incident from his childhood. I felt everything with Charlie - his downs and ups, his feeling "infinite" with his friends. He is so sensitive and caring about others that he has forgotten about himself. A wounderfully touching, coming of age story that should be read by all.
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Summary: 5 if not 17 thousand stars
Review: Just finshed today! And boy, if you want a book you can relate to, this is it. No doubt. Drugs, sex, friends, music, and alcohol all play an important part in everyone's life and Charlie (me and the main character, same name, no relation) is no different. It has given me new insights on things and opened me to new experiences. It has made me feel, as Charlie would say, infinite.
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Summary: "I would die for you. But I won't live for you."
Review: I found this novel powerful, with many of the statements within the book such as what I've included in my title, having a unique ability to move, touch, rearrange, and push my feelings around like furniture inside me. So much of what Charlie, the 15-year-old who tells the story, writes makes sense and is something the reader can relate to or at least have feelings about. Although I loved this book, some people who don't feel comfortable reading about controversial issues such as teen-age sexuality (heterosexual and homosexual), drug experimentation, and some other issues, may not enjoy this book. These issues aren't just mentioned, they're realistically and more profoundly explored through the eyes of a teen-ager. The way I looked at it, the issues here that Charlie lived through doesn't mean that Charlie or any of the people involved defined themselves by the issues - but rather, Charlie and the people involved in the story triumphed despite the challenges they faced. It's a story of growth, of learning and realizing identities - and the reader cannot get a grasp of HOW the characters grew and changed and learned to LIVE, without telling about such controversial issues. Charlie is a believable, lovable, very intelligent, though struggling teen-ager who tries so hard to do what he thinks other people want or need that he is constantly denying himself - standing aside and watching other people live instead of stepping into the situation and giving something to it. A wonderful bunch of people step into Charlie's life and help him learn how to feel infinite, how to live and love, and how to remember painful things from his past that will help him to handle some of the loss in his life.
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Summary: This book is great.
Review: I love this book. I have read it twice. It is funny and a little depressing at the same time. It makes you think. Its just a great book and i recomend it for everyone.
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Summary: The best book you will ever need to read!
Review: Anyone who doesn't give this book 4 stars has no respect for literatue. Chbosky's touching book of letters is the most beautiful amazing story you will ever read. I know more people who's life this has changed. I have bought this book on at least 6 or 7 occassions to give as gifts. Wallflowers makes me want to become an English teacher just so I can give every ninth grader this book in hopes of perhaps making them a better person. The government should pay for every highschooler to read this book. I place this amng such classics as Great Gatsby & Catcher in the rye.
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Summary: I loved this book!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The book made me feel warm and happy. It brought back highschool memories and made a tear fall from my eye. I think this is a great read an would recommend it to a friend. The style of writing is amazing, it is easy to follow, and get lost in.
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Summary: Infinite
Review: This book is so real, so wonderful, and so touching. At the beginning of the book, the writing style is very simplistic and I guess you could say, not very good. However, as the story unfolds you can see Charlie's (the main character) writing skills develop due in large part to his wonderful English teacher Bill who constantly has him reading and writing essays and reviews. It's wonderful to see his use of the English language progress as it does, and a large part of the story that you don't realize until the end or close to it. One of the things I loved most about this book, was my ability to relate to it; things such as the zine Punk Rocky and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the making of mixed tapes and giving of gifts. Not only is Charlie a very sensitive young male, but he is very observant and you almost immediately wish you had your own Charlie. All in all, this book is extraordinary, everything about it is perfectly planned, this book is infinite.
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