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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
KharBevNor:
By some standards I still am a depressed teenager.
I guess I just didn't spend my time making misinterpreted song lyrics the center of my existence and being an enormous badly-written twat. Either that or the fact that I find it absolutely impossible to see the appeal of reading about some moping bastard teenager. Especially if you are a moping bastard teenager. It seems terribly redundant. Just as, now, I wouldn't derive any satisfaction about reading a book about an unconventional art student going through relationship problems. Fictions about expanding your experiences and escapism, in my mind anyway.
Haven't read this one, but if the above comments are true then I don't want to.
undyingblusher:
It's one of my favourite books.
Beautiful.
ampersandwitch:
Reading it the second time (the first time was when I was a freshman in highschool and a MAJOR FUCKING IDIOT) I realised the halt-and-go of the plot, the mediocre character development, and just the way that it was totally. fucking. boring.
All this, while barely tolerating an narrater who is a "mopey teenage" type with a bad vocabulary, bad writing skills, who is tragic in all aspects (watching him write about learning what masturbation entails was cringeworthy, especially at the ripe age of fifteen, was unrealistic and funny in the most painfully awkward sense of the word) makes for a completely noncompelling novel.
Seriously, what a stupid book. Grr.
I can't believe I liked it.
carrotosaurus:
--- Quote from: ampersandwitch on 22 Jan 2007, 06:44 ---Seriously, what a stupid book. Grr.
I can't believe I liked it.
--- End quote ---
I agree. The first time I read it I liked it; the same applies to Catcher in the Rye. But upon revisiting it, both are trashy novels that cash in on teenage angst. There's no actual emotions in here, just the typical struggle with anxiety and puberty... It's bad enough I had to experience that once, why do I want to read about it?
ekmesnz:
It sits on a fine line between interesting and trite, and I think most of the time it is very interesting. Chbosky treats most of the events very well, and Charlie's personality is very well written.
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