The Perks of Being a Wallflower (edit title)

• Rated 5 stars

“I enjoyed reading this book. I couldn"t get my face out of it. The book was real life. I can relate some part of my life to the book”

• Rated 5 stars

“This is my most favorite book of all time. It really is the best book I have ever read. I loved every minute of it and couldn't put it down. I felt really attached to the main character, Charlie, and my heart ached for him when he was upset. This book includes controversial topics like sexuality, drug use, and suicide. They are issues that affect nearly everyone, and this book is really honest about all of them. It doesn't hide anything and it really touches your heart. I wouldn't just say that this is a good book and that everyone would enjoy it. It really is a book that everyone should read and it teaches the reader a lot.”

• Rated 5 stars

“So I'm only 11 pages in but I really like it. As I've said before I love books written in letters, this one is even more interesting becuase its entierly one sided. Its a slightly odd writing style because I'm guessing that Charlie (the main character) is only 15ish (that's how old you are when you start high school, right?).

Page 18, what sort of a word is "corpulent" for a fifteen year old to be using? I don't like it when I have to google definitions of words half way through reading, it breaks the flow :(

Man I love that episode of M*A*S*H.

Actualfax crying now, its nearly happend a couple of times in the book but the poem has done it [3 I think I'm going to write it out and put it on my wall.

I just don't even know where to continue. I've finished now and kind of just want to sit and think for a bit.
It's funny cause I didn't think id be able to relate to a story from a 15/16 year old's point of view, and I do so preferr 3rd person stories to 1st, but the letters format really helped the story along. It confused me somewhat towards the end because I don't tend to "get" a lot of subtlty in plots etc but it did really move me in some ways.
I especially liked the insight it gave me into what a boy's mind might be going through at the same time that mine was worried about going into my final year of "proper school" & then going to 6th form at around the same age as this kid was starting high school.
I'm not one for stories that aren't set now/in the recent past but this bought a sense of nostalgia for the early ninties that I kind of remember. I was 2/3 in 91/92 so I just barely remember it, but I do just enough for the book to bring back a sense of something from back then.
Over all I loved it very much, even the oddly short sentances, strange phrasing and americanisms didn't put me off. An amazing book.”

• Rated 4 stars

“This was a lot like Catcher in the Rye.”

• Rated 5 stars

“A really good, quick read about a 16 year old boy named Charlie in his first year of high school. He's been through a lot for how young he is, and he begins writing to an unknown person, kind of like a diary entry only to a real person. He's some what of an outcast and he doesn't have very good social skills. He's quiet and very emotional, but he's loyal and he doesn't like hurting people's feelings. With Charlie there's no baggage, he's very blunt and he always speaks his mind.

Over all i really enjoyed the book. It was funny and sad, and it had real problems that a teenager in the present would be dealing with. ”

• Rated 0 stars

“In this book, the main character, a freshmen boy named Charlie. Charlie writes letters to an unknown person about his realizations and what is taking place in his life has he explores high school. In the end has he slowly gets comforable with his life as he discovers a secret that had haunted him throughout the book. This book is moving.
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• Rated 5 stars

“An amazing, amazing, AMAZING book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the story of a 16 year old named "Charlie". He is writing letters to someone he doesn't know about his life because he has no one else to talk to anymore, after his Aunt Helen's death. It is the story of a 16 year old freshman in high school growing up, but there is way more to the story then just that. In this book you watch Charlie grow from being a nobody, to gaining friends that he will never forget in his entire life, and come from not knowing who he is, to finding out his true self. I recommend this book to ANYONE. It is such an amazing book and definitely one of my favorites.
My favorite scene in the book is when Charlie is in Sam's car with Sam and Patrick at the very end of the book. This sums up Charlie's whole freshman year and how much his friends and everything else he learned and was introduced to means to him. It really is a great way to end the book and end Charlie's year.
I also love the scene towards the middle of the book when Sam, Patrick, and Charlie are in Sam's car driving through the tunnel and feel "infinite". That moment was extremely special to Charlie and is something he will never forget in his entire life.
My third and last favorite scene was when Charlie sees Brad calling Patrick a "faggot" and Patrick start a fight with him and his friends. Charlie runs over and starts beating all the guys who were hitting Patrick. This really showed true friendship and how much of a true friend Patrick is to Charlie and Charlie is to Patrick.”

• Rated 4 stars

“A pretty good book. I was really sick of the kid saying "incidentally" but it got better the more I read it. I was pretty surprised at the ending to be honest and it was good. A real page turner, I went through this book in about 2.5 days.”

• Rated 0 stars

“I really liked this book, It was sad and good and funny all at the same time! I liked Charlie a lot but at the same time I felt bad for him especially at the end. It was more of a book I could relate too. Because Afteral, I am a high school student although i am not going through the same things Charlie went through. ”

• Rated 2 stars

“Recommended ages 12 and up.
I didn't really like this book. The format is in letters from this boy who's a freshman in high school to "a friend." He's depressed and he thinks a lot. He actually just seems pretentious to me. Like he's trying to be smarter than he actually is. And he is smart, but it feels like the author is trying too hard.”