Nothing new, but it still manages to come off fresh.

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	• The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky MTV, 1999 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 1262 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Lots of Perks to Perks

I read this book for the first time many years ago and picked it up again recently. I was still struck by the emotional quality of the story and the way the reader is captured by the narrator despite the lack of much in the way of plot. It is essentially a coming of age story, a book about how one boy's life changes because of the friends he makes during his freshman year in high school. But he is a special boy, a fact that is eluded to throughout the book, but which doesn't really get resolved until the end. I found Charlie, the narrator, to be totally sympathetic, the kind of person you'd like to take care of, which is exactly right for the tone and theme of this book. The other thing I really admire about the book is the way that it doesn't stereotype characters, even though most of the people we meet are not fleshed out beyond moments and events that Charlie experiences. You don't have the dumb jock and the stuck up queen bee or anything like that; rather you get complicated teenagers, all of whom are struggling with their own unique stories as Charlie struggles with his. This book is sophisticated, challenging in subject matter, and emotionally complicated, but by the end, you feel so much for this character that you can't help but continue to think about him long after you've put the book down.

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i loved it. :)

this book is AMAZING.
period.

ive probably read it 23 times since i got it at christmas.

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My Favorite

This is one of my absolute favorite books. I read it in high school and loved. Recently bought it for my teenage brother-in-law.

Nothing new, but it still manages to come off fresh.

Billed as a YA, this isn't your Grandmother's typical young adult book- well not mine at least. Formatted as letters or more accurately, in "Diary" format, the book covers a year in the life of Charlie, a sensitive, high school freshman who suffers from bouts of depression.

Starting with the suicide of a close friend, we follow Charlie as he makes his way through the morass of being a teenager- and a misunderstood one at that. He's not only sensitive- he's seems to cry at the drop of a hat- he's smart, firmly cementing him into "Freak" status. Despite his wallflower ways, he eventually befriends a brother and sister while at a high school football game. The former he soon discovers has a secret relationship with the star quarterback of the football team and the latter he falls in love with instantly. Charlie gets lost for a little while working through his lot in life, but he does eventually make his way out of it and I liked that most of all about the book.

This book is published by MTV of all things and it's got MTV written all over it. Anxst, Sex- gay and straight, though not graphic-, and Drugs, all mixed in with self-introspective "who am I?", is what it's all about and frankly, Chbosky doesn't put anything in "Perks" that we haven't already seen. We've raised a generation of innocence lost, after all. Yet, the book still manages to come of fresh in a strange sort of way.

In the end, I found it well written and I was totally floored by the ending- although I SHOULD have seen it coming a mile away. (Guess I was distracted by all the crying.)

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Loved It

I was so gald I read this book before starting high school. It is an insightful, darkly humorous, and beautiful look at surviving adolesence. I took this to camp last summer and everyone wanted to borrow it. Definitely one of my favorite books!

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