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This collection of letters written from the wallflower are a special insight into this high school freshman's life. It's touching, insightful, but sad and heartbreaking at the same time. The letters draw you in........ Please don't think this is another cheesy high school drama about popular and not....This book has a lot more insight to offer than that.
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This book meets task 1 for the 2019 Book Riot Read Harder Challenge: A epistolary novel or collection of letters
This is another one of those books that it seemed like a lot of people had read but I hadn't. A book set in high school around the time that I was in high school. And yes, yes, I have been described as a wallflower so I could somewhat relate to the main character Charlie in regards to his general shyness and his love of books. However, I didn't have as many traumatic experiences in my ...more
This is another one of those books that it seemed like a lot of people had read but I hadn't. A book set in high school around the time that I was in high school. And yes, yes, I have been described as a wallflower so I could somewhat relate to the main character Charlie in regards to his general shyness and his love of books. However, I didn't have as many traumatic experiences in my ...more
I liked this book a lot the first time I read it, but it doesn't hold up incredibly well. It's a sort of Catcher in the Rye -ish story about a high school kid who doesn't fit in and thinks too much (and who listens to the Smiths a lot), but the ending is really really weak. I had completely forgotten about the ending and when I realized where it was headed in the last few pages I got really pissed off. It still makes for decent bathroom reading, though, which was my purpose in picking it up agai
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Okay. I am one of those people. We watched this movie in the theater, and I liked it enough that I demanded Andrew take me straight to the bookstore after the movie, where I raced around trying to find a copy before close, not exactly remembering the spelling of the author's name, and forgetting if this was supposed to be fiction or a memoir, and absolutely refusing to ask for help because I was chagrined about buying a movie tie-in book in the first place. (When I finally found it I was elated
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A year in Charlie's life as he deals with high school and trying to engage in instead of watch his life. I ended up reading this in one sitting - I was sucked in to Charlie and his friends and family despite not having a clue of what the book was about or trying to do. Now that it's finished, I can see some of the criticisms I've read in reviews here (seems that you either love or hate this one), but while I was in the book, everything worked for me. Even if I did start to wonder about an Asperg
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I just reread this; the last (and only) time I read it before now was when the book was released. I was in high school, and I remember seeing ads for the book on MTV, and I remember being terribly pleased that MTV was promoting reading, and thinking that a lot of kids might actually read something because of that.
The weird thing is, I don't remember much about actually reading it. Recently a couple of people saw the book in my room and asked me how I had liked it, because they had only heard goo ...more
The weird thing is, I don't remember much about actually reading it. Recently a couple of people saw the book in my room and asked me how I had liked it, because they had only heard goo ...more
At some parts, I found Charlie completely relatable & I understood why the book is so beloved. At others, I just wanted to scream at the characters for being so frustrating & semi-unrealistic. Overall, well written & pretty much on point for teenage angst.
This has always been one of my favorites, but the audio version blew me away.
Reminds me a little of Flowers for Algernon
