Showing posts with label The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Show all posts
I've read the book and as I've told I wasn't hooked enough that I couldn't wait for its film adaptation but now I think the movie is cool after seeing the trailer. I found the book dreary, plot hasn't established well. Charlie whose English teacher deduces that he's a smart fifteen year-old boy but frustratingly Charlie occurs like an innocent baby who has no single idea about masturbation, sex, all that stuff. He loves books, that's the only fact I like about him aside from he's a good thoughtful friend. Mentally or perhaps emotionally challenged. I am a wallflower myself but I hadn't experienced cutting my locks unconsciously till I'd gone pathetically bald, neither been sent to mental hospital of some sort. But hey, the movie seems nice. I didn't expect Charlie is as gorgeous as Logan Lerman and Sam is as pretty as Hermione. You know the feeling that you have had certain awful make up pictures of the characters and events happened in the novel on your head and abruptly after watching the trailer you found yourself saying, "I didn't expect it could be this cool." The movie can make you feel eight years younger--wild, spirited, hopeful, cheerful, enthusiastic, infinite. Check out.
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| Book cover |
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| Charlie (Logan Lerman) and Sam (Emma Watson) |
“And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people. and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.”― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
October 5, 2011Dear friend,
I could say that I am too old for the novel. Sometimes I think and feel older than I should. Maybe if I was in my teenage years having a tremendous confusion about the difference between masturbation and ejaculation and I happened to be a boy and I read it, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, then I think I would enjoy it immensely more than I enjoyed it these days. The novel is somehow a lousy one for a grownup in my very own opinion and nothing could beat Jerome David Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye's portrayal of adolescents' angst. Maybe because I've read The Catcher in the Rye when I was in high school and I've appreciated it so much.
I only got an e-book copy of the novel
You'll love the novel if:
1. You were a teenager.
2. You feel like a teenager.
3. Both.
Love always,
The Bookworm
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