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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Tartar Martyr:
The first question that comes to mind when someone tells me they like this book is:
"Have you read The Catcher and the Rye?"
Because honestly, this book is trying to tell the same story, it just does so in an unecessarily sensational and cheeseball fashion. It isn't terrible... but it definitely gets its share of undue praise. A lot of Salinger's short stories along with other recent novels (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) do a much better job of telling this "social out-cast/coming of age" tale.
Jman:
Catcher in the Rye ftw.
That being said, Wallflower managed to tell the same story in a way that was less depressing and more creepy: "Look, mommy, my wrists are bleeding. Isn't it pretttttttty?!"
mer:
--- Quote from: Tartar Martyr on 11 Jan 2007, 05:49 ---The first question that comes to mind when someone tells me they like this book is:
"Have you read The Catcher and the Rye?"
Because honestly, this book is trying to tell the same story, it just does so in an unecessarily sensational and cheeseball fashion. It isn't terrible... but it definitely gets its share of undue praise. A lot of Salinger's short stories along with other recent novels (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) do a much better job of telling this "social out-cast/coming of age" tale.
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Exactly my thoughts as I was reading the book
KharBevNor:
Man, I don't get the appeal of this type of book.
Chesire Cat:
I guess you were never a depressed teenager
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