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Summary: Dear friend, do yourself a favor and read this
Review: Dear friend, I know you're busy with your life. Life is a busy activity, especially if you're doing everything right. Or at least trying to. But maybe you should do yourself a wonderful favor and buy this book. And read it. And "savor" it like you would a gourmet cheeseburger. And understand what it is to both identify with and love a character who doesn't really exist. And cry because it dredges up the worst moments of angst from your teenage years. And laugh because it brings up the best ones, too. And then hold onto this book and cherish it. Or give it to someone you love. Or your best friend. They'll love it, too. Love always, Billy
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Summary: People think THIS is realistic and well written?
Review: My biggest problem with this novel is the writing style of Stephen Chbosky. The whole device of using letters from himself to an anonymous recipient comes across as exactly what it is: a device. If you were writing a series of letters to someone, would you set them up like a novel is written? With quotes and paragraphs and so on? Either write it like actual letters would be written or write it as a straightforward first-person novel. Charlie doesn't want his anonymous recipient to know who he is. Hmm. Older brother playing college football. His school's captain of the football team is gay and sent of to military school. I don't think the girl (or guy?) Charlie keeps sending these letters to would have too much trouble figuring out who he is. Another thing, we aren't shown enough of Charlie's human weaknesses. The author, and the characters in the book, reward Charlie far too much for being this earnest, caring, sensitive human being. But he's too perfect and self-righteous for anyone to care. None of the characters are fleshed-out well enough, from his sister to his brother to his gay friend to the girls he likes, nobody is given more than one or two personality traits....
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Summary: Heartfelt...and truthful
Review: The Perks of Being A Wallflower will touch anyone who reads it. Charlie is a insightful, lovable,character, and his letters profound. This book is one not soon forgotten.
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Summary: AWESOME
Review: This book was extremely entertaining and wonderful. The only drawback is that the author hasnt written any others. Its very difficult to find a book so intriging and acurate. I want to encourage all my friends to read it.
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Summary: You love it or love it...
Review: In this book I became aware that in highschool many things that are not said in the open are often the things most dealt with everyday.In this book, you are able to see when life in like for the people that truly do look beyond themselves.You also see a moral that has been there all along, but isn't printed until the end. I hope everyone enjoys this book as much as I did. But, you need to read it for yourself and come up with your own conclusions.
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Summary: not just for young adults!
Review: ... one of the better books I have read in some time. Labelled as a book for young adults which ultimatley screams, 12-17; this book is a rare gem. Talk about nostaglia! Stephen Chbosky, through the eyes of Charlie and his friends, took me back to high school. Any one who struggled through high school in the early nineties will appreciate this book. It is charming, thought provoking and soul-searching. Someone FINALLY wrote about how it really feels to be a teenager!
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Summary: couldn't put it down
Review: This book, suprisingly, really got to me. I started reading it very skeptically becuase of the MTV label on it, but once I started I couldn't put it down and finished it in one night. It's a book with ensights and a day dreamer quality to it, but it's something every teenager should read. One could say it is the Catcher in the Rye of 1999; it has the ability to change the way you percieve things, and when a book can change perceptions, one can safely say it's a good book.
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Summary: beautiful
Review: A while back i requested this book from a library but they never got it for me, so one of my friends bought it, he loaned it to me and anyone else who cared to veiw it. Almost all of my good friends have read it now and we hold discussions about it quite often because charlie is so much like us. Hanging out at big boy until all hours of the night, like us in jims, sitting around chain smoking and getting to know eachother. This is such a moving and real book, allthough it made me cry, i loved it. I reccomend this book to anyone who has had a not-so-normal high school experience, and is looking for a good read. once you start reading it, you wont stop until you've finished it, twice.
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Summary: Great book.
Review: This book is the best book I have read in a long time. It is so well-written, and very inspiring. I read it in a short time, and it was a little hard to get used to the way Charlie writes, but it makes you feel involved with Charlie, and his life. It makes you feel like you know him, or are the friend he is writing to, and to be that close makes the book even better. It was a great book.
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Summary: A MUST READ!
Review: This book is the best thing I've read in quite a while. I am a chilren's librarian. I read YA books in order to give Book Talks to teens. And this is the best book I've read all year. There has been lots of hype around books like "SMACK," but this is So much more. THe story is simple, and complex. You can read this book just on the surface, and understand the story, and like it. Or you can read it in depth. You can devour the book, and understand something more that the author is trying to tell you. THe characters remind me of kids I knew in High School. They are real. They are the sad, lonely kids that no one really understands. But here, you can understand them. They touch your heart. The letter form of the book lends to the reader's connection with the narrator. You love Charlie. You feel like his best friend. YOu feel like his journal. And the connection is profound. All in all, the book has a CATCHER IN THE RYE feeling to it. IT feels like a classic in the making. It feels like something kids will be reading for a very long time.
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