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Summary: Big Boys Shouldn't Cry!
Review: I enjoyed this book on many levels. Me being a high school student myself, I can really relate to the pressures and problems that Charlie faces. Charlie has many issues which he tries to figure out. Charlie goes through many different changes that not many people I know could handle. This story faces average issues of a so called "teens life." Many of us are and were confronted with pressures in sex, alcohol, sexuality, and drugs. This story also deals with many adult issues that are hard to stand and face. Charlie is only 16 years old and he has already have had to deal with a friends suicide and the guilt that goes with it, watching a rape take place and being frozen to do anything, child abuse and molestation. Charlie deals with these problems the best he knows how, sometimes facing it and other times wallowing in it. Charlie just wants everyone and everything to be happy, even if he sacrifices his own happiness for them to have it. Charlie is a great listener and doesn't want anyone to be upset or mad at him. He tries to please people way too much. Charlie does end up earning a bunch of great close friends. Charlie, at times in the beginning would really annoy me. He was always constantly crying, but not until later did I realize why, so I sympathized instead of criticized. He truly does display a sense of braveness and maturity towards the end of the book. I honestly look up to him. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever questioned themselves.
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Summary: "Sex, Drugs and The Rocky Horror Picture Show"ΓΏ
Review: I just finished the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Steven Chbosky. I felt that this was a great novel and that anyone can relate to the lead character Charlie. Charlie struggles with being a high school freshman, being exposed to drugs, sex, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time. I loved how the author used anonymous letters that Charlie wrote to tell the story. Not only was this an eye opener for me, but also a book that I could relate to as well. I highly recommend this book to anybody in high school or about to start high school.
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Summary: The perks of reading this book
Review: The book "The perks of being a wallflower" is a really honest book. It was very interesting to read. I could find me in a lot of what happened to the main character, called Charlie, and of what he thought. I'm still joung, so it was actually for me to read a teenanger experience school, friends and partys, but even if you are older you can read this book and remember your school time. Do you ever thought something really is wrong with you? And didn't want to be that way? Charlie did. And he found a solution for his problems, an answer to his questions. I really like his solution. I think, you can learn something of what Charlie says, no matter how old you are. "The perks of being a wallflower" isn't only honest, it's funny, sad and exciting, too. So life is.
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Summary: Please judge "Perks" based on its own merits.
Review: I've noticed several reviews on here draw parallels between "Catcher in the Rye" and "Perks." Some call it a "rip-off" of "Catcher."Is this fair? No. I'm sorry, but "Catcher in the Rye" didn't corner the market on coming-of-age stories. Far from it. The most accurate connection that "Perks" has to "Catcher" is brilliance. Both are heartfelt, touching, insightful stories taken from a young boy's point of view as events transpire that shape his life. There were moments where I saw myself in the character of Charlie, as I related to this character more than almost any other I've read about. And when I couldn't relate to Charlie, I wanted to. If you read this book and remain unmoved, you're clearly missing something.
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Summary: IMPACT
Review: I guess the reason that I love this book the most is because it is so real. Its so true and it identifies the life of a 15 yr old wallflower so well. I should know. This book brought me to tears several times. Its the way that I can relate that really gets to me. I think everyone should read this. Its one of those windows into a teenager's life that their parents should not read. But its a damn good book.
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Summary: if you breathe, read this book. . .
Review: I'm on break from college and while in New York I decided I needed something to read. Walking into the Virgin Records Megastore in Times Square and down into the book section, the first book I picked up off the shelf happened to be a copy of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I'd never heard of it before, but the back caught my interest. Thumbing to the title page, I noticed that it was actually signed by the author (none of the other copies were, and I happened to pick this up first). Do you ever have that feeling that books find you for a reason? I did, and I bought it, and I devoured it in two days, and it has been on my mind ever since. This novel was refreshing because of its very innocence and accuracy. It realated to my previous life as a high schooler and a lot of it seems to carry over to college. It's a modern day Catcher. I can't see how anyone could possibly criticize this novel. To say anything bad about it is to miss the point entirely. It's a vision of how good the universe could really be, despite the crazed insanity of growing up. Unrealistic? Maybe. Idealistic? Definitely! God, please give me more. If ever we could hold on to this innocence and not lose it by writing self-indulgent and critical reviews which only reek with snobbery and are written by people who have never really lived, then maybe we could really understand what it means to be human. This book is real, and despite being a little too stereotypical at times, it still holds some emotional answers. If life is not about feeling infinite sometimes, then what the hell are we living for?
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Summary: What a waste of trees.
Review: I hated this book. It's very disturbing and makes it seem like all teenagers are sex maniacs, drug addicts, and were sexually abused as children and later suffer personality twists and weird mental collapses as a result. Don't buy it: go burn your money instead, it will put the cash to better use.
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Summary: A rather good book...
Review: I dont know what it was, but there was something that was just really weird about this whole book. There was something about Charlie I just didn't like. The way he cried so easily, the way he always wanted his life ot be perfect...I don't know. There are some really great parts, and the book really is awesome, but...it just doesnt deserve five stars. I do agree though, this should be required reading in high school. My system has summer reading, this should be one of the books.
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Summary: I honestly didn't like it
Review: I can't explain why, but I really didn't like this book. Just the way it was written left a bad taste in my mouth. The sappy emotional content just seemed so fake. No one in high school goes for a drive and says "I feel infinite." It was not realistic at all. Charlie was a kind character, but some of the things he said just didn't make sense. Also, I don't think that the drug-taking and sexuality factors in this book were completely necessary. I enjoyed "Catcher in the Rye" much more. The symbolism and realism were so much better.
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Summary: not too shabby
Review: i have to admit i was not too impressed with this book when i began it---but then i kept on reading and im glad i did because this book was incredibly sweet. i think this was a copy of my lost journals from when i was a freshmen--now im a freshmen in college and i was just about brought to tears this afternoon when i read the end-- was so heartwrenching--Good God! --so there i am at work with my heart full up like an landfill and these crazy tears in my eyes--very good--it is really creepy to see how alike charlie and i were (are) i discovered the smiths and rocky horror and keruoac and rand and fitzgerald and lee and love in my freshmen year---it almost touched a little too close to home--read it its sweet
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