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Summary: Not for ages 4-8.
Review: a young adult novel - not for ages 4-8 as suggested by [stated] reading level!
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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!
Review: I can totally relate to Mr. Chbosky's character Charlie! It was so amazing reading this book not only the first time, but the last 17 times..I'm sure it'll amaze the 18th and 19th and so on...People often compare it to Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, but I think it is so excellent that you cannot compare it to anything..maybe I feel so strongly because it so closely parallels my life..I, too, LOVE Rocky Horror Picture Show, I read & make friends with my english teachers, I feel infinte when I hear the perfect song on the perfect drive, and I face all of the problems and fears Charlie did as I make my way through high school...EVERYONE PLEASE READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: He's PSYCHO !
Review: I read this book after I bought it from amazon .com and no one said he was psycho ! He's psycho . The poor kid is incredibly intelligent but I mean what he went threw as a child I think traumatized him . It reminded me a little to much of the cathcer in the rye at the end . I dunno . . . I loved it , and I love the catcher in the rye which was funny because he read it . So anyway , it was a good book though .
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Summary: Dear Interested Reader:
Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is a very honestinterpretation of life in high school through the eyes of a troubledfreshman. In this book "you" assume the role of a person Charlie has heard someone talk about at school and begins to send letters to this person, which you read. Through the book you learn about Charlie's problems, and how he recklessly tries to solve them, usually making things worse for himself. If you've read Catcher In the Rye, and you liked it I totally recommend this book, if not though, I still recommend it just as much. This book contains all the elements present in a high chool students life which anybody can relate to: love, death, fights, friends, and family. This book does get rather graphic sometimes but mostly in a comic way. So if you can handle a book of this caliber, I suggest you get this book!
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Summary: Wonderful adaption of teenager years. . .
Review: Omigosh. Someone catch me. This book blew me away. Icouldn'tput it down I loved it so much. I read this book in 4 hoursand read twice again when I was done. This book brings out what really goes through teenagers minds and doesn't hold back. Stephen Chbosky opened the flood gates on this one.
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Summary: So Many Perks!
Review: I am suprised that I am the only one to attempt at writing the first review for this book, as it is so incredibly good! I've given it at birthday gifts, marked it to death, throw it in everyone's backpacks and I still can't get over how good it is! Grippingly honest this books chronicles the life of the virgin male character as he goes through life in this virgin state of mind. High school puts it's impression on him and you'll feel the high's and low's of life with him. In the end he's never the same, and neither are you. Pay special attention to poem that's stuck in the middle of it!
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Summary: What Perks?
Review: Do you know a wallflower? Would you like them to change? If so, I recommend you force them to read this book. "The Perks fo Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky is a wonderful lesson of why not to be a wallflower. Charlie; the boy who watches his life pass him by; the wallflower; is a seriously disturbed young man. From his experiments with drug abuse to his own sexuality, he seems to have no self identity. He observes people, reads books, over analyzes everything, and cries chronically. He never appears to come in full contact with himself, with his thoughts. He loves his friends and his family, but he doesn't understand why. He never seems to grasp much of anything-perhaps its due to his non-stop analyzing and observing. Charlie is most certainly a wallflower. A passive person waiting for things to happen for him, and worrying about things he can't change. I don't understand what perks there are to being a wallflower, especially not if Charlie is the type of person one would become. Get out and live your life, and read this book if you need motivation to do so.
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Summary: Charlie in the Rye
Review: I'm 16 years old, and i've spent the past year reading classic books no later than 1960. A friend of mine gave me this book to read yesterday morning, and i finished it yesterday afternoon. I don't think this book is very profound, and it's not really anything new. This is a document, or a diary, of a teenager. In that sense, the author accomplished the honesty of being human, and growing up. I found Charlie to be a lot more like me than any other character i've ever read. I think a lot of people may feel the same way, in one way or the other. The experiences are pretty universal in high school life. I think most young adults will be very interested in this story. The only problem i had was the similarities to Catcher in the Rye, especially towards the end. But then again, this book is very close to a 90's version of Catcher in the Rye, although in an altogether different style.
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Summary: The perks of feeling "infinite"
Review: He is everywhere, in our math classes and at our lunch table. He watches, rarely joining in the conversation, drawing his own conclusion and gathering the insight he need to fill his poignant letters to an unknown friend. He is Charlie. Fourteen, strikingly brilliant, he possesses a sensitivity and intuition to absorb life in a way that no other can. In this captivating novel, Stephen Chbosky. illustrates what it is like to be "Standing on the fringes of life.." Charlie isn't popular, yet he isn't unpopular. He floats through life listening and watching. He fills his letters to an unknown friends with everyday happens, making them seems not so everyday due to his uncanny views of life. In the hell we all call High School he befriends an aspiring film maker-teacher who recognizes how special Charlie really is. He also becomes part of a very eclectic, interesting groups of Seniors, who adopted them as their own "wall flower." Among them is the beautiful, witty, chain smoking Sam, who Charlie secretly and sometimes not so secretly loves. And Sam's step-brother, Patrick. bitter, too wise for his years, and openly gay. With them Charlie peeks through the fringes, occasionally coming out to "Time Warp." This book is filled with everything that makes High School such a beautiful, painfully excruciating, experience from Mix tapes, thrift shop clothing, drugs, cigarettes and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", to death, sex, depression, homosexuality, and pregnancy. Told through the letter of one of the most noble, honest, genuine, fictional characters it goes against the grain to portray what life is like, not for the average teen, but for those who are just a little bit different in a whole lot of ways.
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Summary: My thoughts on the book
Review: When I finished the book "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" I had to think about what message the book was trying to give. It talked about everything that a teen goes through in high school through a boy names Charlie. The story is a collection of letters he write to the person he thinks can relate to him the most, but he never tells the person who he is. When the book starts out he is a nervous boy starting high school. He has no friends because his best friend Mark has just died. He does not have anyone to talk to but his English teacher. Throughout the book they form a special bond together. Along the way he meets great friends who teach him many new thing. Although life far charlie was never perfect his friends were always there for him. I would recamend that all teens read this book. It was very intiresting.
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