Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Sep 07 '10
Pros: enjoyable characters and story
Cons: rather busy and rushed
Summary: With Banned Books Week coming up, one of our Books Category Leads has begun hosting her annual write-off to call attention to the fact that banned or challenged books deserve to be read and judged for ourselves as to their merit. Books that make some ... read more
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Oct 28 '11
Pros: I can't think of anything right now.
Cons: Main character, voice, plot.
Summary: Ok, so I'm definitely in the minority with this book. I didn't really like it at all. In fact to me, it was a book for teenagers trying to be angsty to try to relate to. But even then I'm not sure how they could relate to some of ... read more
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Oct 18 '11
Pros: It has amazing detail and depth. You feel like you are part of the book.
Cons: You can get lost sometimes and some of it is hard to keep up with.
Summary: In this wonderfully creative book, a high school freshman named Charlie tries to deal with his life through a series of letters to an anonymous friend who never writes back. He doesn’t want anyone to reply, he simply likes the idea of knowing that ... read more
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Sep 16 '11
Pros: engaging and compassionate narrative voice, quick read
Cons: extremely "R-rated"
Summary: When I realized that it was Banned Books time again, I wondered what I could review to take part in the write-off. I haven’t read anything very controversial lately and I wanted it to be something fresh in my mind, so I figured this merited a trip ... read more
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Dec 12 '09
Pros: Word choice, sentence fluency makes it sound as though someone is really talking to you
Cons: None.
Summary: I love the way another reviewer described it as "a modern catcher in the rye" I agree with this. I read both of those books back to back. One thing I love is the character's innocence. It's absolutely enchanting. He talks as though he is a fifth ... read more
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Mar 04 '08
Pros: Amazing, fun to read, great writing style.
Cons: Somewhat abrupt ending.
Summary: After reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I was actually disappointed that the book was over with. This coming-of-age tale is about a young kid named Charlie, a shy, intelligent, introvert, with a lot on his mind. The story takes place in a suburb ... read more
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Oct 09 '06
Pros: Makes you think...nuff said.
Cons: Nothing
Summary: This book changed my life. Being a junior in high school alot gets thrown at you. You start feeling things you've never felt before and start looking at the world in an entirly different way. I finally found some kind of place for me among people I ... read more
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Jul 12 '05
Pros: Great characters and development. Interesting and engaging storyline.
Cons: Gets kind of depressing to read
Summary: The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming of age novel by Stephen Chbosky. The story focuses around Charlie, an incredibly gifted and emotional freshman at high school who is writing to his “friend”, a person that is never identified in the ... read more
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Nov 23 '04
Pros: It won’t make you understand your life. It makes you understand how to live.
Cons: Naming your hero Charlie conjures up all sorts of “Flowers For Algernon” images.
Summary: They say that if “Catcher In the Rye” was published for the first time today, it would be marketed as a young adult novel. After all, when “Catcher” was printed in 1951 there was no such thing as a serious book meant for teen ... read more
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Jul 17 '04
Pros: Nice looking cover.
Cons: Ridiculously overdrawn. Lacking detail. One-dimensional characters.
Summary: After reading several reviews of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and finally going to Borders to buy it, I was extremely anxious to open it up and have a read. Many people have compared the book to The Catcher in the Rye, undoubtedly one of the greatest ... read more
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Jun 02 '04
Pros: Emotional honesty & originality of narrator’s voice
Cons: Plot can be slow-moving at times
Summary: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” tells a year in the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who journeys from having a hard time after his good friend Michael kills himself, to Charlie growing into a more well-adjusted teenager who is able ... read more
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Jan 01 '04
Pros: The best characters I've ever been introduced to
Cons: The book is frustratingly short
Summary: I'm not even sure what possessed me to read this book. It was boredom, I suppose. I had found it lying on my friend's floor and picked it up to read for lack of anything better to do. What a sweet substitute for boredom I did find. After reading just ... read more
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Nov 22 '03
Pros: Almost everything - controversial topics, characterization, writing style, easiness to read
Cons: Very few - family gathering parts, kind of short
Summary: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is one of those “coming of age” stories that took me by surprise. One day during my English class I was glancing over a book report list and the strange title of this story caught my eye. ... read more
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Jul 17 '03
Pros: Good writing, good message
Cons: Slow parts,
Summary: This review makes many references to the book The Catcher In The Rye. If you haven't read the boo ... read more
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Dec 27 '02
Pros: the writing and content
Cons: it ends too soon
Summary: my former coworker quit her job with me at the cafe and started working at a book store a few stores down. i went in my afternoon and told her to pick me out a book, that i will read no matter what. i tend to pick up books and put them down cause they ... read more
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