The Perks Of Being A Wallflower: The Most Moving Coming-Of-Age Classic by Stephen Chbosky

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower: The Most Moving Coming-Of-Age Classic Reviews

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  Reham

  This condition of the book is great and it was delivered fast, highly recommended
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  Rafa

  Amazing I probably cried a lot , but i feel like it could be not for everyone but it’s great
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  Lili w

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  Catwoman

  I haven't read it fully yet but I am enjoying it from the start. The book looks interesting 💖
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  Sama

  AT THIS MOMENT I SWEAR , WE WERE INFINITE
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  Ghaid

  Book arrived fast and in an excellent condition. Well written, emotional, and easy to read. The book is worth reading.
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  Hend

  Good quality and fast delivering I enjoyed every page in the book. You should buy it
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  Bshayer A

  I love the cover and delivered fast in two days and it is perfect, can't wait to read it
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  Rebecca

  “We accept the love we think we deserve.”I’ve seen nothing but good things about this book but never given it a try. The internet is full of quotes from the story and I think you’d be hard pushed to find someone who’s never at least heard of the title (this book has than 1 million ratings on Goodreads and the film was well reviewed too).Charlie is a socially awkward freshman, writing letters to an unnamed friend. He tells his friend absolutely everything, from his homework assignments to his first erection and so much .Image result for the perks of being a wallflowerSource: TumblrThis is a short book, but it is packed with some difficult and heavy subjects including suicide, domestic abuse, drug use, rape and abortion.I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I had wanted to, and I found the writing style and structure to be somewhat tiring. Charlie writes with innocence and the author has chosen his sentence structure and grammar to represent this. I understand the technique and have really enjoyed other books like this in the past, but on top of those tricky subjects, this didn’t make for an easy or enjoyable read.“I don’t think that there is a favorite kid in our family. There are three of us and I am the youngest. My brother is the oldest. He is a very good football player and likes his car."Another point I’m somewhat frightened to admit to you all is that I didn’t feel sad and I wasn’t really affected by this book in any way. Am I too cold hearted? Probably! 🙈I felt the story was a little too melodramatic for my tastes, but I certainly understand why people love it. I also give it huge credit for addressing these topics, especially those so increasingly faced by teenagers today. I think that if I had read this when I was younger, I’d probably have enjoyed it a lot but at this point in my life, it wasn’t for me.Overall rating: Contrary to popular opinion, I didn’t love “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and the writing style was most responsible for this. I didn’t hate it, but I just didn’t feel it was for me – 2 stars.
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  No_Spoiler_Sean

  Read April 2019.I struggled to get excited about this book. We know Charlie is a wallflower and was traumatised earlier in his life by what happened with Aunt Helen, and that he is coming of age in the early 1990's. Yet despite all this it didn't quite add up for me.We spend a year with Charlie and all these events happen to him, yet not until the very end did he try and alter his behaviour or try and steer in a slightly different direction. It just seemed to be of the same. I know when I was young and impressionable and wanted to please people I tried to act differently to fit in. Where as Charlie was very emotional, not afraid who saw him being emotional, and constant in his thoughts and actions.I think I tired of the letter style too, as it became repetitive after a while. I hoped the recipient would be revealed at some point but frustratingly it never was. Here's my theories:Surely nobody writes this many letters! I'd say Charlie was closest to Sam (love interest), then Patrick (friend), then Bill (teacher friend) all above his family. He never referred to talking about these letters with any of his friends or family. So I was thinking maybe he was writing them to himself, but he did post them, and I'm sure he would have mentioned his family becoming suspicious at the amount of letters. There is chance he was using an alias so it wasn't Charlie at all, just another member of the group of friends? But that still doesn't answer who the recipient was. Whoever it was I also feel they would have made some effort to contact Charlie, or contact the polic e to block his mail, but neither happened!I appreciate this book is aimed at young adult, and as a 40 something not aimed at me. But I hasten to add, I'm a massive, massive fan of Catcher in the Rye which is a similar style and age group, yet far superior in my opinion. I found 'Catcher' genuine, witty and in a better writing style and format.
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  Andressa Lima

  O livro chegou em perfeito estado, muito bem embalado e super rápido. Não tenho muito oq falar sobre a história em si, já que esse é um dos meus livros favoritos e eu estava apenas querendo a versão em inglês, só posso dizer que o inglês dele não é tão difícil de entender para um iniciante(?).
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  Aleksandra Nowacka

  [NO SPOILERS]i wanted a sad book to read, and let me tell you right now, this book was sad. i actually had to put it down for a moment to wipe my tears quite a few times, especially towards the end. i really liked this story and found it very touching. it was well written and you can tell the author put a lot of emotion and thought into it. my only complaint would be that the plot progression got slow at times, which i would say is because small details got dragged out at times when it wasn’t really necessary as they didn’t add to the story. nevertheless, i finished this book quite quickly and it did keep me engaged enough to sit there reading for around two hours at a time (it took me four hours altogether and i read it over a weekend). i would recommend this book to anyone who wants a good cry, but would suggest searching up content warnings online as it does contain some dark themes that may trigger some.
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  Ellie P.

  "He's a wallflower You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand."I've never met a single person friend, blogger, librarian or bookseller who has read 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' and not fallen in love. This is such a wonderful book, and it's perfect summer reading too. It's the coming of age story of a fifteen year old boy called Charlie, told entirely in epistolary form via letters to an unnamed friend of a friend. Quiet, introspective and naive, Charlie is surely one of the most loveable and achingly sweet characters I've ever come across in my reading life. It is his freshman year, and to his surprise his largely solitary existence is turned upside down when he is 'adopted' by worldly older stepsiblings Patrick and Sam. At the same time his English teacher, Bill, begins to draw him out of his academic shell with some well timed encouragement. Slowly, his new friends nudge Charlie out into the big wide world, into a bountiful land of music and books, love and longing, parties and 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' and stand beside him through the hardships that teenage life and his own past conspire to throw his way.This is definitely going to be one of my favourite books of the year. I adored Charlie and found myself underlining things on almost every page as his thoughtful exploration of the world around him prompted me to stop and reflect. I also noted down dozens of movie, book and music references to check out later, which was a bit of an unexpected bonus! Through his letters we can see Charlie's style mature as he does, and our involvement becomes deeply personal because it feels like he's writing just for us. Chbosky's characters are complex and painfully real, and no one is all good or all bad, even Charlie himself. I think Patrick was my favourite, because he was all heart even when he wasn't necessarily doing the right thing! I loved Bill too I think every student should have a Bill to see their strengths and provide a shining light of knowledge and hope during the difficult school years. Some really serious teen issues are discussed throughout the book rape, drugs, gay identity, abuse without ever feeling too heavy or gratuitous, and I can well understand the reputation it has gained as a positive, even life saving cult classic for young readers.The only thing I didn't like and the reason for the half star drop were those occasional moments when I felt like my heart would break because SURELY no one could be so naive at fifteen? The book becomes quite difficult to read at times as Charlie's naivety is stripped away this is the true meaning of the word 'bittersweet'! But it really is an unmissable novel. Charlie is such an intuitive character, and the writing is beautiful; he thinks outside the box and it's a pleasure to read! He is inspiring and generous, and accepts everything with a high level of tolerance and emotional intelligence, even if he is very childlike in other ways. There is something for everyone here, whether you are 15 or 50 and I can't WAIT until 2013 when Chbosky's adaptation finally hits the big screens. I'll be first in line to laugh and cry all over again :)