Perks of being a wallflower book
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I did not like this book.
I am about to try to explain why that fryst vatten so, here, in my own, anställda review space. I am critiqing this book, based on my own opinions, personal taste, experiences and perspective, criteria and standards for literary work. It is entirely subjective, as I think all reviews, per definition, are.
I mean no disrespect to the people who like this book, and who have found in it something of value. You are as entitled to your own opinion, subjective readingexperience, and standards, as inom am, and yours fryst vatten just as valid. And you have the same opportunity as me, to use your own review space, to clarify that. We don’t all have to agree. One opinion isn’t ‘wrong’ and the other ‘right’ – they are both right, personally speaking, because it fryst vatten subjective.
If you are a big fan of this book, and have difficulty in understanding or respecting people, who disagree with you, especially on issues that are import
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I&#;ve always been a big believer that we find the books we need when we need them. I talked a lot more about this idea in this post, but it&#;s one of the things that makes reading so special.
Sometimes we have to read books that we don&#;t want to read. School has required reading and sometimes that makes us jaded. But, other times, we see a book that we&#;ve heard about and something just compells us to pick it up.
That&#;s what happened with The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
I was at the library when I saw it, and I just couldn&#;t shake the feeling that this was the book I needed to read. So, I pulled it off the shelf and sat at a little table in the YA section and proceeded to read at least 1/4 of the book before ever checking it out.
And I cannot tell you how grateful I am that I found this book now and not as a teenager.
Teenage Bree wouldn&#;t have connected to this book. Teenage Bree wouldn&#;t have been able to see past the content. Teenage Bree wouldn&#;t have un
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If you have not read this novel (and/or seen the movie), perhaps you are a little out of the loop or a little old? It is a modern manifesto of the teen life, since the late 90s but still extremely loved and adopted by each decade of teens since. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is written by Stephen Chbosky, perhaps an unlikely person to have written the quintessential teen manifesto novel. Why? He just has a strange career and had intended to work in film. He has written screenplays and directed and worked in TV, including the movie adaptations of Wallflower, Wonder, the newer Beauty and the Beast, and Dear Evan Hansen. And then he wrote another novel, twenty years later, a psychological horror novel, Imaginary Friend.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary coming-of-age, YA novel set in Pittsburgh in what appears (to me) to be my high school years (in the mid-nineties). The set-up is Charlie—our unconventional hero—writing to an anonym