It would be a mistake to say this here is a review on The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky since it will barely make the cut of one.
However I'll still write it down, because I believe that story deserves one.
To be honest, I had watched the movie based on that novel which was released late last year. I had gone against the book-before-movie rule(which is unspoken of until now), but I could not ignore the voices around me cheering for this one simple movie. Much like the hype with many other novel based films, the people run and chant the name for days on end, groping at the familiarities, clinging to the relevance of the characters and how it relates to their own lives, they fan base them, ship them, all that is until another new amazing film comes out and the other is laid to rest.
Back to the subject, I won't give out what the movie is about, because 1) spoiler and 2)the movie and book is at your disposal so it wouldn't be a problem to find out yourselves. There's also a PDF availability online that is to your convenience FREE and so you may refer to that.
I have to admit, I felt a tad bit skeptical at my own review of this since I the characters and setting had already been made for me through the movie. I feared that my view on the story itself would be jaded because of the experience the movie had offered me. But to my surprise, I found reading it more pleasurable than the movie itself. Although I wasn't able to shake off the image of the protagonist, as I imagined him the way the movie portrayed him, I managed to make up my own image of who Charlie was; and he was a fine protagonist indeed. As J.W. Eagan said, "Never judge a book by its movie."
As my review begins, I will here put it in terms even a 5 year-old would grasp; this book made sense.
That's about all I can or could say about the book, because unlike the scarce amount of books I have read prior to this one, I didn't have to read between the lines, or try to figure out what was going, or even so relate to the characters.
It just made sense.
I don't know how you as an individual among 7+++ billion people on this earth would react to this ONE single novel, where it describes ONE single person facing life on a new perspective, but as for me, the book was good.
To simply put it, good.
Coming to the topic of the actual perks of being a, as I have written, 'semi-mediocre writer', I here am able to speak(or to put it literally, type) my thoughts into font, words, sentences, paragraphs and ultimately piece of composition without having my class teacher point out my flaws and corrections. Though receiving such end to that would be helpful in my writing, I would be grateful to receive any feedback you have on this. I'm not one who likes to discuss about how my thinking is narrow or that my writing doesn't make any sense. If I understood it, I'm sure one of you out there will.
So here I am, being the semi-mediocre writer that I am, bringing you my innermost thoughts on the book I am sad to have put down: The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. My copy was the PDF file I had earlier mentioned, and after reading this book, I intend to go to the nearest bookstore, and purchase a copy of this delightful book.
After all, a book this good, deserves to rest between my palms and journey with me through life.
Here's the official trailer of the acclaimed movie to get you excited, if you haven't been in touch with the world lately, like myself.
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