The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

★★★★★★|☆☆
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite"
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Intro 0:00
Summary 0:17
Nostalgia 1:20
Social structures in high school 2:33
Audience 4:06
I heeaavviillyy skated over the actual plot of this book because I was so whisked up in my memories of it; I didn't mean for it to sound so whimsical and positive; it's very angsty and abuse is a big topic in the book; but still, at one point they were all infinite.
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[@DanielZander44]

This comment section is brutally negative for such an honest and profound work that comments on the struggles of a quiet high school student that deals with extreme trauma. I have never seen any opinions that so harshly discount Charlie's experience and the fact that he finds refuge in the first people he's met that accepts him for the first time in his life. Thanks so much for the comprehensive analysis and commentary. This book did wonders for me in high school, it commented on realities of my own life that wasn't addressed before reading Chboskys work

[@callumalston5755]

The ending line of this book will always stick with me

[@amyshilling7979]

such great opinions

[@johane.turbib.8108]

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[@i_guessilikemusic7564]

aww mann... I was really enjoying the review and suddenly it was over. Good work though condensed the book pretty well.

[@christinacascadilla4473]

I’m to page 10. It’s not exactly rocking my world. I watched this to be convinced to keep reading it.

[@Chareads]

And were you convinced?

[@christinacascadilla4473]

Chareads, I’m going to try more tonight. So thanks.

[@christinacascadilla4473]

So far I’ve made it to Chapter 3. It’s readable, but I wish more happened.

[@christinacascadilla4473]

Chareads...I finished that novel. It is terrible. The only novel I’ve hated more was The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I disagree with you-it is not good for 16-year-olds. What is the message of this book? Seek out friends no matter how much they drag you down? Once Charlie meets Patrick and Sam he starts smoking both cigarettes and weed (and he already told us that his psychiatrist has prescribed medication, and smoking weed and being on some prescription antidepressant is not a good mix) and drinking a lot. It’s not like his life got any better due to his friends. He’d be better off alone. Another message of this book is apparently there are no consequences to whatever you do. Go ahead and spend your high school years smoking weed and drinking, don’t worry, you’ll still get into a good college. I kept wondering when these characters ever had time to study. I also had trouble with the inconsistency of the adult characters. Charlie’s father comes off at times like Atticus Finch, yet lets his 15-year-old son run around at all hours of the night. A real wise move right after your son spent the summer in the psych ward. The English teacher has some good advice, but then lets Charlie smoke in his office. What? And the books he gives Charlie are not even appropriate for a 9th grader. The Fountainhead? When he gives Charlie that book he says, “be a filter, not a spunge” which I took to mean that Charlie should use his critical thinking skills and realize that just because Ayn Rand got that book published did not mean that her philosophy was not total garbage. Charlie misses the point. Yet he’s “the best student the teacher has ever seen.” Yeah, because the teacher has taught for only one year. This book was written as if the author had a checklist of teenage problems next to him on his desk and he made sure they were all in the novel before he finished...suicide, check...alienation, check, drug use, check, unwanted pregnancy, check, homophobia, check, molestation, check... I don’t mind those being in the book-I know they are teenage problems, but there is never any subtext that most of this is bad. Patrick goes off into the woods to have anonymous sexual encounters. And this takes place in 1991-1992 when the AIDS epidemic is still going on! Maybe some commentary that this is not the best choice? The title doesn’t even make any sense, unless it was meant to be ironic. Perks are extra good things someone receives, like if the school gave Charlie his own private bathroom to use. What perks are in Charlie’s life? His life is terrible! And Patrick says about Charlie, “You’re a wallflower. You see things. And you understand.” Except Charlie understands almost nothing in the course of this novel. The only really good part of this novel is when Charlie has a girlfriend that he hates and is trying to figure out how to get away from her. I also liked the part with the e. e. cummings poem, because I guarantee that I’m one of the few people reading the novel who read the poem beforehand, and I bet I’m the only person who has read this novel and actually known what movie Mary Elizabeth watched that made her buy that e. e. cummings book. Rebuttal? Remember how Holden Caulfield says, “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you are through reading it, you wish the author was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” Well, if I ran into Stephen Chbosky I’d probably get into a fight with him.

[@movieclipstrailers2493]

Christina Cascadilla God damn

[@Ishaan181]

My school is making me read this book. I already hate it and find it boring. But I am glad other people can enjoy such garbage (in my opinion).