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A review by starkiwi
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
4.0
This was one of the few books I read in a day. I know it doesn’t look like it on my Goodreads account, but that is because i enter in books when I plan to read them, and enter in that i finished the book whenever i get the time. Not just because it was so short, but because it was very engaging and a great story with great characters. And I might have had to read it for book club that afternoon and I just hadn’t started it before now. This was also one of the few books where the movie was better. I might be a little bias on that side since I watched the movie first. However, after reading the book and rewatching the movie, It was plain and true. Everyone else in my book club thought so too.
The characters are great and funny. Even Charlie, who is a little awkward to begin with. You really connect with the characters in that they become your friends. But you can’t really relate to them. Being a wallflower is being kinda shy and detached from the world. Unless that really happens to you on a daily basis you cant really relate to what these characters are going through.
The format is in letters, which is kinda hard to read if you like to know everything that is going on. At first I was skeptical about this format because I normally don’t like the narrator doing it first person story telling. The story can sometimes become a little bias and unreliable about how others are. Gradually throughout this book I got used to it, though. And I do feel it is the best way that the author can present everything about the main character they need to.
Even with all this it is a pretty good book, with a better movie. And if for some reason you cant watch the movie, at least try to listen to the soundtrack. This movie/book has introduced me to some of the best songs I believe to be out there. The songs really reflect on who the characters are and all the events of the book. I feel I got to know how the characters really were not from the book, but from the songs in the movie. And some of the songs do make their appearance in the book. I would still recommend reading the book before watching the movie, as I try with every book. I made that mistake with this book and missed some information from the book that I needed to understand the movie.
My favorite song: Come on Eileen.
The characters are great and funny. Even Charlie, who is a little awkward to begin with. You really connect with the characters in that they become your friends. But you can’t really relate to them. Being a wallflower is being kinda shy and detached from the world. Unless that really happens to you on a daily basis you cant really relate to what these characters are going through.
The format is in letters, which is kinda hard to read if you like to know everything that is going on. At first I was skeptical about this format because I normally don’t like the narrator doing it first person story telling. The story can sometimes become a little bias and unreliable about how others are. Gradually throughout this book I got used to it, though. And I do feel it is the best way that the author can present everything about the main character they need to.
Even with all this it is a pretty good book, with a better movie. And if for some reason you cant watch the movie, at least try to listen to the soundtrack. This movie/book has introduced me to some of the best songs I believe to be out there. The songs really reflect on who the characters are and all the events of the book. I feel I got to know how the characters really were not from the book, but from the songs in the movie. And some of the songs do make their appearance in the book. I would still recommend reading the book before watching the movie, as I try with every book. I made that mistake with this book and missed some information from the book that I needed to understand the movie.
My favorite song: Come on Eileen.