Do you remember what page this was on?.. I've been looking trough mine a ton of times and yet i remember this part better than any other part i just can't seem to find it..
Its somewhere close to the beginning right? Right after they stop calling Patrick "Nothing"..
I just finished this over my Thanksgiving break and it was absolutely amazing. I had just read Catcher in the Rye in AP English, and they were so similar, yet I liked Charlie so much more. Although I doubt the movie will be as good, I'm still excited to see it. Emma Watson is a fantastic actress, and I'm so happy that Chbosky is directing it himself. I don't think he'd let his own work be distorted, so I'm sure it'll be great.
I wonder who's the guy in the front cover of the book? everytime I look at him, I get this feeling like I wanna help about what's bothering him and make him smile. bit weird,really.
I JUST FINISHED THE BOOK. Touched me in a way I never thought would be possible. Crazy how you can relate to a character.. I feel like a version of Charlie. As if the words and thoughts he said we're the same as how I would see situations in my head. Crazy. Favorite book I think, yes.
this was such an emotional book for me, idk why, charlie was so different from me, but *SPOILER* when you realize the whole thing with aunt helen, you finally understand him! its like wow, i know understand why he was so different. At first, I thought he mightve had a form of autism, but he was just abused by someone he though he loved. :( it was a great book
The Perks of Being a Wallflower; the only book I've ever read 4 times; the only book that I took something a different away from it each time I read it. The only other book I've read more than once; Harry Potter. The Perks of Being a Wallflower introduced me to the Smiths; they are now my favorite band. I wish they still existed, but as I don't want to be greedy, I'll settle for Morrissey.
I bought the book a little over sixteen hours ago, and I originally intended to just read a chapter before I went to bed but, I was unable to put it down. It's now 05:54am and I finished it about ten minutes ago. In all honesty, I never thought I could feel so attached to a character before. This may just be one of my favorite books of all time.
Favorite book ever. I cry so much every time I read it. It's so beautiful.
Emma Watson has been my only celebrity crush for approximately 10 years, she's got class and unconventional beauty, I was beyond joyful when she signed on 8 days ago. :] Can't wait for Stephen C to finish writing the movie, direct it. Heck, I can't wait for the world premiere!
bill seemed like more of a rapist in the story than aunt Helen to be honest. because acted too personal toward charlie. i kinda wish charlie was gay. um my favorite quote is: “Something really is wrong with me. And I don’t know what it is.” (137) yeah well i had to reread the part about aunt Helen molesting him cuz it wasn’t obvious at first. i love this book more than i love the book “the boy in the striped pajamas. This book reminds me of the movie “Mysterious Skin”
Landslid is by Fleetwood Mac. Dixie Chicks and/or The Smashing Pumpkins can never re-do it correctly because they'll NEVER sound as wonderful as Stevie Nicks.
This becoming a movie, I cannot wait to see it. I'm sure they'll leave parts out like most books made into movies do. Emma Watson just doesn't fit the role of Sam either.
@acursivelullaby I imagine the version they talk about in Perks being the version by Smashing Pumpkins. It just fits in more with the other songs in the book.
@acursivelullaby I'm glad that the many who wrote the book is directing it himself. I think that if a book turned movie can be done justice, it's by the person who wrote the book.
Honestly, I'm not sure it'll be able to do the book justice. Wait and see, I guess, but isn't the whole point of the book supposed to be that it's his personal thoughts, and anonymity? But I am glad that Chbosky's got such a big role in production
@acursivelullaby I don't get the joke. And perks is about a boy so how could it star emma watson? I heard a movie was coming out starring the boy that was in The Butterfly Effect. That movie was awesome and have amazing actors. Every one of them. And I mean the kids. Not the grown up parts with the awful Ashton Kutcher.
oh if ur still wondering the end to the song means theres like a better world when you die, and the person is saying good bye because there leaving this world and moving on to the better one .
@miragracevids No it was a song called "Landslide" which I think is by the Smashing Pumpkins
The poem "Absolutely Nothing" ? It's just basically the boy's life spiraling down until finally he gives up and takes his own life and sees himself as a complete failure and never reaches his ultimate goals
@acursivelullaby landslide is originally by fleetwood mac, and smashing pumpkins did a cover. i don't mean to be correcting, i just wanted to let you know.
@miragracevids when he talks about the song that made him feel infinite, it was "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. This is Charlie's favourite song, "Asleep" by the Smiths.
@miragracevids the song "landslide" was originally written by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. The Smashing Pumpkins covered it for their album 'Pisces Iscariot'
@NoirOrchestre I read the Perks in my freshman year of highschool and fell in love with it. i have that line tattoed down my side :) definitely the greatest line ever.
@NoirOrchestre I read the Perks in my freshman year of highschool and fell in love with it. i have that line tattoed down my side :) definitely the greatest line ever.
I'm rereading this book. I read this part today. Something about this specific part of the book just takes my breath away. It makes you want to experience exactly what he means. And I loved Catcher in the Rye. I read it in English last year and it blew my mind. These books just reall make you think, you know?
I read Catcher first, I can't stand when people say that it doesn't make sense. Comments like that lead me to believe that many people live very charmed lives. And almost refuse to see the other side of living. I almost cried reading both Catcher and Perks
I read Catcher for the first time in the 8th grade so I didn't get the whole meaning but I still thought it was one of the most moving pieces I have ever read. There's so much to both novels. What most people say about Perks is that its the sex book and they constantly talk about the rape scene. Its hard to find someone who can grasp the whole meaning of these two works but I'm lucky to have met one or two
Every Perks fan is automatically a Catcher fan. I've never met a Perks Fanatic who didn't get converted into Catcher fanatic.
It's hard now to find books that can motivate me to read it in one sitting and Perks has always done it for me. That's when you know a book is amazing.
pretty much my most favorite book, ever. i zipped faster through this book than any other, anybody have any other books as good as this one? let me know...
You will never be the same once you are acquainted with Holden Caulfield. Everyone who likes Perks has to read "Catcher" it's vital to every teen's coming of age.
I thought so too, but you have to read "Catcher in the Rye"
Everyone who I've turned onto Perks went right off to Catcher and fell in love with Holden. It's a smooth transition too because Holden and Charlie have really similar voices
I would definately pick it up at a library or something. If you read it when you're not obligated to its so much better. If you dig "Catcher" you'll probably be able to read it over and over again.
i went to a library once with a big window where i could see the whole parking lot and some trees outside. i sat at a table for hours i dont know how long i just read that book and time was infinite. i was infinite too and these words from this book gave me chills they got right down to my bones and my soul.
That's so beautiful :) I've had a similar situation when I was reading once sitting beside a cannon in the middle of the town facing a playground full of kids and a group of weird teenagers at a picnic table. Life presents itself in perfect ways sometimes.
There are those moments in your life, when you sit down and cry without knowing why , or those times when you smile without a reason. This book made me unerstand why those things happen.
Since the first time I picked up this book, I've never been the same.
That's so true. This book opens your eyes too so much, and just makes you appreciate the small things and the times when you have no idea what you're doing. You put it perfectly
When I was reading it, I could feel Charlie's feelings inside me. I could feel infinite.
I feel like crying everytime I remember about aunt Helen, or about Brad and his father, or about Charlie in the truck feeling infinite and crying at the same time.
me to. when ever hes happy im happy when ever hes sad im sad, if charlie was real i would give him a big hug (no homo) and tell him how much this meant to me
I think that happens to everyone. At least everyone who I've spoken to or read comments hear about after reading it. If you identify with any of it I don't think there's any way this book could not leave some sort of impression on you.
This video turned an exquisite passage from a novel into something even more wonderful and profound; I love this book, and I love Charlie. You did him justice.
This is the most amazing book I've ever read. It moved me in ways i can't explain. I sat for hours re-reading it. Absorbing every word on every page. And in that moment I was infinite.
Everytime I read this book, I learn something new. Like, don't lie to people and dig yourself a hole. And how to really participate with people, not just stand there and act like you are. And what it means to truly be infinite and how to be.
Thank you very much for putting this up. I'm going to go and re read the book now.
This book...I can't describe how amazing it is. It has actually changed my way of thinking. If I'm ever having a bad day, all I think is "I need to participate", and I talk to new people, become better friends with the people I already know, and try new things. I've never met you Stephen Chbosky, but I really love you for having that effect on me
Exactly- Charlie forced me to accept people more. I find myself digging myself more and more into holes so I'm probably going to have to reread it again.
I always wonder what it would be like to talk to Chbosky. It would be interesting
this isnt the song this is the song his sisters boyfriend gave to her in the tape and the infinate song he said had baby in it or something but i cant remember
i just stayed up the whole night reading the book and i cried during the whole ending and and i love this book now it was really an amazing book. i really loved the poem his friend Micheal wrote :) and i love this song to
I love this book so much, I have read it a number of times and it is true that you always find something new, it touched me like no other book has. I want to give it to a friend of mine, actually, want to give them my own copy of it because I had underlined all the beautiful lines in it but i can't now cause I left it behind somewhere but i'm scared they won't like it, that maybe they won't be open minded towards it and maybe it is a bit too sensitive.
The one thing Perks Of Being A Wallflower taught me was, no matter what the consequences, do what feels right to you. "Participate" in your own life and make your own choices. Give them the book, the may really love it in the end and you could change someone's life. I know it's changed mine, and I plan on giving it to my friends so we can all bask in its glory :)
when charlie was little his aunt helen molested him. he had post tramatic stress disorder which is a mental disorder in which a person suffers side effects of a blocked memory of sexual abuse or other tramatizing expiriences which was when charlie couldn't sleep with sam and ended up lying in front of a tv naked. he wrote his last letter before he watched the tv naked and wrote to the person again when he got out of the clinic he was sent to...
when he was riding in the truck and started crying about how he was finally alive symbolized how his ptsd was what held him back from living in the moment and what was seperating him from interacting with normal people and once he put that expirience behind him he was able to live and to understand that he was living. or at least that's how i interpretted it- i haven't read it in a few months but i think the best way to understand charlie is to have a good idea what ptsd is
idk if anyone picks up on this but you know how Charlie cries all the time?After he remembers what happened to him he stops crying. He doesn't even cry when he's w/Sam.
Weird, huh?
Also, THIS SONG! Like, actually listen to it... There are only a few songs in the world that I consider the most depressing, this one, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Elvis, and Disorder by Joy Division. It's really fitting that he would like this song though because he's living his life asleep.
if you mean he doesn't cry when he's with sam in a whole that's not true, because sam has to tell him to stop crying all the time and he ends up crying at the very end when he's riding in the tunnel because he feels alive
I meant in the hospital, idk why I said w./Sam. And yeah, I forgot about the end, but I guess the point I was trying to make is that he cries for different reasons in the end than he did in the rest of the book.
"I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist."
i cried so hard when i realized what Aunt Helen did to him
and why he went to the hospital and couldn't be with sam that night.
This book changed my perspective on life, and i can identify with charlie so much. the book is so personal. it feels as though he's writing those letters to YOU.
dude no worries, i have to read this for school. im probably not going to read it, so thank you. you probably just scored me some points on a test i will have on this.
i remember reading this book 3 years ago in my freshman year of highschool. the story seemed like it was written just for me. it helped me deal with the hard times of that first year. and i relate a lot of the good times to this book.
Now that i just finished my senior year i really miss those times
I'm reading this right now. Like, litterally I have it right in front of me. This is the most beautiful book. I can relate in so many ways. It makes me cry. It makes me think. I do feel infinite when I read it. This is my favorite book because
I also bought this book for my best friend at the time. This was years ago. She thanked me. We stopped talking after, though. Kind of makes it more meaningful in a way.
This is the one book I cannot stop reading.... It never gets old... The part about Patrick and Brad made me cry... But Charlie, it's just... hmm... he's amazing...
When is the movie of this going to fucking come out. It couldn't have happened already.
A2Z83 1 day ago
Do you remember what page this was on?.. I've been looking trough mine a ton of times and yet i remember this part better than any other part i just can't seem to find it..
Its somewhere close to the beginning right? Right after they stop calling Patrick "Nothing"..
mettecole 3 weeks ago
I just finished this over my Thanksgiving break and it was absolutely amazing. I had just read Catcher in the Rye in AP English, and they were so similar, yet I liked Charlie so much more. Although I doubt the movie will be as good, I'm still excited to see it. Emma Watson is a fantastic actress, and I'm so happy that Chbosky is directing it himself. I don't think he'd let his own work be distorted, so I'm sure it'll be great.
lmfaoxLEAH 2 months ago
i really hate that they are making this a movie :(
itsana0123 3 months ago
I wonder who's the guy in the front cover of the book? everytime I look at him, I get this feeling like I wanna help about what's bothering him and make him smile. bit weird,really.
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MsButtermellow 3 months ago
I JUST FINISHED THE BOOK. Touched me in a way I never thought would be possible. Crazy how you can relate to a character.. I feel like a version of Charlie. As if the words and thoughts he said we're the same as how I would see situations in my head. Crazy. Favorite book I think, yes.
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this is one of my favorite books :D i read it when i was in 8th grade
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I just finished reading this book A few minutes ago. I can't stop crying.
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annkonstantinov 4 months ago
this was such an emotional book for me, idk why, charlie was so different from me, but *SPOILER* when you realize the whole thing with aunt helen, you finally understand him! its like wow, i know understand why he was so different. At first, I thought he mightve had a form of autism, but he was just abused by someone he though he loved. :( it was a great book
Careiz14 5 months ago 4
i just read this book and am now crazy! i mustve read it within 3 days! i love patrick and emma watson is going to do an amzing job as sam!
swiminthissilense 6 months ago
The Perks of Being a Wallflower; the only book I've ever read 4 times; the only book that I took something a different away from it each time I read it. The only other book I've read more than once; Harry Potter. The Perks of Being a Wallflower introduced me to the Smiths; they are now my favorite band. I wish they still existed, but as I don't want to be greedy, I'll settle for Morrissey.
lozer13 6 months ago 3
I bought the book a little over sixteen hours ago, and I originally intended to just read a chapter before I went to bed but, I was unable to put it down. It's now 05:54am and I finished it about ten minutes ago. In all honesty, I never thought I could feel so attached to a character before. This may just be one of my favorite books of all time.
1346798524865 6 months ago 7
cool you used The Smiths 'Asleep' love this book
smithslover1 6 months ago
Liked the book...movie of it no thank you
windsweptspy 7 months ago
i only wish i could have read this book before high school,
acuegra 7 months ago
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acuegra 7 months ago
i bought a sweatshirt with that quote! its awesome!
lalaurenvictoria 7 months ago
What's an ELA teacher? |D
BLU3TUCKA 8 months ago
@BLU3TUCKA I made this in Middle School where we called English ELA (English Language Arts)
acursivelullaby 7 months ago 8
@NoirOrchestre I bought it because of that sentence too! It's the best sentence in the world:]
XPrettyInPinkO 8 months ago
Favorite book ever. I cry so much every time I read it. It's so beautiful.
Emma Watson has been my only celebrity crush for approximately 10 years, she's got class and unconventional beauty, I was beyond joyful when she signed on 8 days ago. :] Can't wait for Stephen C to finish writing the movie, direct it. Heck, I can't wait for the world premiere!
CaptainUltimate27 1 year ago
bill seemed like more of a rapist in the story than aunt Helen to be honest. because acted too personal toward charlie. i kinda wish charlie was gay. um my favorite quote is: “Something really is wrong with me. And I don’t know what it is.” (137) yeah well i had to reread the part about aunt Helen molesting him cuz it wasn’t obvious at first. i love this book more than i love the book “the boy in the striped pajamas. This book reminds me of the movie “Mysterious Skin”
creamandsteve 1 year ago 3
@creamandsteve ahh which part do you mean? i mean about Aunt Helen molesting him? I want to reread it as well!
badfi 9 months ago
@badfi aunt helen is a creeper.
creamandsteve 9 months ago
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@creamandsteve ahh which part do you mean? i mean about Aunt Helen molesting him? I want to reread it as well! thanks xx
badfi 9 months ago
Landslid is by Fleetwood Mac. Dixie Chicks and/or The Smashing Pumpkins can never re-do it correctly because they'll NEVER sound as wonderful as Stevie Nicks.
This becoming a movie, I cannot wait to see it. I'm sure they'll leave parts out like most books made into movies do. Emma Watson just doesn't fit the role of Sam either.
caprisunsaresexy 1 year ago
Amazing book! <3 The only book I ever read in one day.
I hope the moving is just as amazing!
TOKiOHOTELR0CKZ 1 year ago
the perks of being a wallflower; its a life changing book <3
my all time favorite so far
MrsKapOneoh 1 year ago 4
i just finished this book yesterday and i dont think i could ever think of a more amazing and ispiring book!
BiebersBrat96 1 year ago
To all the people who keep commenting in a frenzy over this: Landslide is by Fleetwood Mac and not featured in this video.
acursivelullaby 1 year ago 12
@acursivelullaby I imagine the version they talk about in Perks being the version by Smashing Pumpkins. It just fits in more with the other songs in the book.
iKwassy 10 months ago
@acursivelullaby lol
StevenPourciau 2 months ago
to the dumb ass above, landslide is a fleetwood mac song, the pumpkins did a cover of it a few years ago.
lizbolte2010 1 year ago
"Perks" is now officially a movie, directed and written by Mr. Chbosky himself and starring Emma Watson. Any feelings?
acursivelullaby 1 year ago 52
@acursivelullaby
excited
cdc482 1 year ago
@acursivelullaby and logan lerman the guy who played percy in the lightning theif. he plays charlie, they better not screw up the movie lol
BiebersBrat96 1 year ago
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@acursivelullaby and logan lerman the guy who played percy in the lightning theif. he plays charlie, they better not screw up the movie lol
BiebersBrat96 1 year ago
@acursivelullaby I'm glad that the many who wrote the book is directing it himself. I think that if a book turned movie can be done justice, it's by the person who wrote the book.
VisForVampire 1 year ago
@acursivelullaby
Honestly, I'm not sure it'll be able to do the book justice. Wait and see, I guess, but isn't the whole point of the book supposed to be that it's his personal thoughts, and anonymity? But I am glad that Chbosky's got such a big role in production
fallenangel871 1 year ago
@acursivelullaby
I'm glad that Stephen Chbosky is the one directing it. I believe if anyone can get the movie right then he will.
RenaShiomi 11 months ago
@acursivelullaby love it. :D
therealaknow 10 months ago
@acursivelullaby And Logan Lerman. SO excited!
annkonstantinov 4 months ago
@acursivelullaby i've never read the book, is the movie good to watch if i never read it ?
StevenPourciau 2 months ago
@StevenPourciau Well, the book is always more than the movie =] No matter how good it is.
TheBanshwa 1 month ago
@acursivelullaby ohmygosh, don't forget Logan Lerman ;)
teensinthemaking 3 weeks ago
@acursivelullaby I don't get the joke. And perks is about a boy so how could it star emma watson? I heard a movie was coming out starring the boy that was in The Butterfly Effect. That movie was awesome and have amazing actors. Every one of them. And I mean the kids. Not the grown up parts with the awful Ashton Kutcher.
A2Z83 1 day ago
@MeahHi I know that. It's in the credits.
We were discussing who wrote "Landslide" the song that was playing when they went through the tunnel in the book.
acursivelullaby 1 year ago
Landslide, is by Fleetwood Mac.
The song by Smashing Pumpkins that he mentions is called Daydream.
DrownedByTheStone 1 year ago
this song is asleep by the smiths
desi44 1 year ago
I love the Smiths song that is playing, and I lovvve that passage from the book. :)
lalarandomness1311 1 year ago
oh if ur still wondering the end to the song means theres like a better world when you die, and the person is saying good bye because there leaving this world and moving on to the better one .
aclovinlz25 1 year ago
landslide is much older than the smashing pumpkins just so you know [no attitude intended]
DrCarissaBones13 1 year ago
The song Landslide by Fleetwood Mac and Smahing Pumpkins in the same song just sung by different people. Both are amazing songs
laural111 1 year ago
Isn't the song Landslide by Fleetwoodmac? That's the song that I was pictureing :\
TheGoodChild12 1 year ago
its almost scary how much i love this book.
goodnessgraciouslove 1 year ago 4
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite"
felt the same exact way when I read that
Sodylin 1 year ago
The BEST! LOOK ON 1:46 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! THE BEST QUOTE
AugustDumb 1 year ago
what page is this in?
MichellesWonderland 1 year ago
This book is everything I was always looking for and now that I've found it, I never want to let go.
skaterfan93 1 year ago
this book is so..sad but it was so..good i read it in two days and NEVER put it down!!
youambthedond 1 year ago
This book changed my life.
trisha733 1 year ago 8
is this the song that he's reffering to when he says we were infinate?
Also if anyone understands the ending of that poem, please tell me? :)
miragracevids 1 year ago
@miragracevids No it was a song called "Landslide" which I think is by the Smashing Pumpkins
The poem "Absolutely Nothing" ? It's just basically the boy's life spiraling down until finally he gives up and takes his own life and sees himself as a complete failure and never reaches his ultimate goals
acursivelullaby 1 year ago 5
@acursivelullaby i think it's by Fleetwood Mac
VenomousSixx 1 year ago
@acursivelullaby landslide is originally by fleetwood mac, and smashing pumpkins did a cover. i don't mean to be correcting, i just wanted to let you know.
ender6137 9 months ago
@miragracevids when he talks about the song that made him feel infinite, it was "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac. This is Charlie's favourite song, "Asleep" by the Smiths.
DaresAndDreams 1 year ago
@miragracevids the poem was called "a person a paper a promise remembered" by dr earl renum. you can google it to find meanings of it and stuff(:
drawingcutie98 1 year ago
@miragracevids the song "landslide" was originally written by Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. The Smashing Pumpkins covered it for their album 'Pisces Iscariot'
cipcakes 1 year ago
god that book is great... like for real... <3
Belfingelz6 1 year ago 5
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite"
I bought the book just because of that sentence.
NoirOrchestre 1 year ago 133
@NoirOrchestre That has to be the greatest line I've ever read in any book.
acursivelullaby 1 year ago 22
@NoirOrchestre I read the Perks in my freshman year of highschool and fell in love with it. i have that line tattoed down my side :) definitely the greatest line ever.
brighteyes235 1 year ago
@NoirOrchestre I read the Perks in my freshman year of highschool and fell in love with it. i have that line tattoed down my side :) definitely the greatest line ever.
brighteyes235 1 year ago
I'm rereading this book. I read this part today. Something about this specific part of the book just takes my breath away. It makes you want to experience exactly what he means. And I loved Catcher in the Rye. I read it in English last year and it blew my mind. These books just reall make you think, you know?
dummdumm05 1 year ago 5
I read Catcher first, I can't stand when people say that it doesn't make sense. Comments like that lead me to believe that many people live very charmed lives. And almost refuse to see the other side of living. I almost cried reading both Catcher and Perks
Allyishere13 1 year ago 4
I read Catcher for the first time in the 8th grade so I didn't get the whole meaning but I still thought it was one of the most moving pieces I have ever read. There's so much to both novels. What most people say about Perks is that its the sex book and they constantly talk about the rape scene. Its hard to find someone who can grasp the whole meaning of these two works but I'm lucky to have met one or two
acursivelullaby 1 year ago 3
this is my favorite booook (:
i've never read the catcher in the rye, but i really want to and plan to. i'm reading to kill a mocking bird right now.
i read this book in one day. it has this really powerful thing about it. it really makes you open your eyes, you know?
ppeennyyy 2 years ago
Every Perks fan is automatically a Catcher fan. I've never met a Perks Fanatic who didn't get converted into Catcher fanatic.
It's hard now to find books that can motivate me to read it in one sitting and Perks has always done it for me. That's when you know a book is amazing.
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
Loved the book<3
genius.
mysticxXxmarcy 2 years ago
i thought this was really good :]
gabey123 2 years ago
pretty much my most favorite book, ever. i zipped faster through this book than any other, anybody have any other books as good as this one? let me know...
txshortie1022 2 years ago
It depends on what you're looking for. The best (and most fanfiction-esque) Perks rip off is: "How to be an Indie Kid" by George Ha.
-for those who can not let go of Perks but can't read it over and over again
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
Then for similar books that drew me in the same:
"Pure Sunshine" Brian James
"Looking For Alaska" John Green
"One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey
"Speak" Laurie Halse Anderson (pertaining to mostly girls, but it is the same coming of age once secluded from society)
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
The most obvious:
"Catcher in the Rye" JD Salinger
You will never be the same once you are acquainted with Holden Caulfield. Everyone who likes Perks has to read "Catcher" it's vital to every teen's coming of age.
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
It's one of my favourite books.
It's so real. Like there is no other book other there like this one.
AlannahClaire 2 years ago
I thought so too, but you have to read "Catcher in the Rye"
Everyone who I've turned onto Perks went right off to Catcher and fell in love with Holden. It's a smooth transition too because Holden and Charlie have really similar voices
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
Thanks, I needed to find a new book.
AlannahClaire 2 years ago
I'm reading Catcher in the Rye my Junior year of high school-next year-and I don't know if I can wait that long to read it.. :/
StitchfansJr 2 years ago
I would definately pick it up at a library or something. If you read it when you're not obligated to its so much better. If you dig "Catcher" you'll probably be able to read it over and over again.
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
this song is fucking amazing.
and wow the book is undescrible.
best book ive ever fucking readd.
i lovee ittt<3
its one of those books you never want to end.
juicyyjayyful 2 years ago 3
I love that part.
I haven't finished the book yet, but I'm going through it faster than any other books i've read.
It's truly an amazing book, the song is amazing, too.
Charlie's a genius, and if I could, I'd fall in love with him... Hard.
rosellesaysrawrr 2 years ago 2
i went to a library once with a big window where i could see the whole parking lot and some trees outside. i sat at a table for hours i dont know how long i just read that book and time was infinite. i was infinite too and these words from this book gave me chills they got right down to my bones and my soul.
CatFlashBlue 2 years ago
That's so beautiful :) I've had a similar situation when I was reading once sitting beside a cannon in the middle of the town facing a playground full of kids and a group of weird teenagers at a picnic table. Life presents itself in perfect ways sometimes.
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
The Book meant next to shit-all to me.
The Smiths on the other hand...
Slapbass13 2 years ago
what date is this in?
ive read this book before and i totally forgot where it was at!
hec212121 2 years ago
1992? right?
it was published in 1999 I know that
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
just finished this book and it change me honestly it did it now my favorite book ever
thekidinthebackround 2 years ago
It's great to hear that :) it changed me so much too. I read it over and over again. It never gets old.
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
There are those moments in your life, when you sit down and cry without knowing why , or those times when you smile without a reason. This book made me unerstand why those things happen.
Since the first time I picked up this book, I've never been the same.
I love you Charlie,
You made me feel infinite.
LarissaSunny1 2 years ago 3
That's so true. This book opens your eyes too so much, and just makes you appreciate the small things and the times when you have no idea what you're doing. You put it perfectly
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
suddenly, I felt INFINITE! this book means so much to me
Detth2you 2 years ago
Pretty emotional
It's the only book that has made me cry
Even more than any movies
Even more than Titanic or Bambi
When I was reading it, I could feel Charlie's feelings inside me. I could feel infinite.
I feel like crying everytime I remember about aunt Helen, or about Brad and his father, or about Charlie in the truck feeling infinite and crying at the same time.
Love always,
Jony
vozchemicalera 2 years ago 4
me to. when ever hes happy im happy when ever hes sad im sad, if charlie was real i would give him a big hug (no homo) and tell him how much this meant to me
soundwaveop 2 years ago
after i read this, i felt so different and emotional for some reason, it like...haunted me or something, dunno how to explain it
bienrad 2 years ago
same here
brian15120 2 years ago
I think that happens to everyone. At least everyone who I've spoken to or read comments hear about after reading it. If you identify with any of it I don't think there's any way this book could not leave some sort of impression on you.
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
I couldn't speak for like 2 days after I read the book. I was just... entranced by it.
itsonthetab 2 years ago
i have found my own meaning. i have feelings again and i may stumble upon love once more.
cannibuzz83 2 years ago
love always
cannibuzz83 2 years ago
i never knew i could fall in love with a book.
vrdub610 2 years ago 88
This video turned an exquisite passage from a novel into something even more wonderful and profound; I love this book, and I love Charlie. You did him justice.
1SHAZ1 2 years ago
This is the most amazing book I've ever read. It moved me in ways i can't explain. I sat for hours re-reading it. Absorbing every word on every page. And in that moment I was infinite.
bonekicker123 2 years ago
this book is absolutely stunning, i read it cos my friend is obsessed with it, and i have never read anything with so much meaning, ever
it really helped me, and changed the way i perceive things.
i am really obsessed with music and lyrics, and the amount of amazing quotes is lovely :)
beachbumbaby123 2 years ago 2
Best book I ever read.. Love always, Charlie!
fevertotell00 2 years ago
Everytime I read this book, I learn something new. Like, don't lie to people and dig yourself a hole. And how to really participate with people, not just stand there and act like you are. And what it means to truly be infinite and how to be.
Thank you very much for putting this up. I'm going to go and re read the book now.
<3
Rawrz013 2 years ago
this is the greatest book i ever read..
i was mesmorized by it.
anarkholic 2 years ago
what page in the book is this on?
kckochanie 2 years ago
The book was recommended to me by a friend and I really like it a lot, made me laugh a lot too. This song is pretty nice also.
ArcherXXA 2 years ago
This book...I can't describe how amazing it is. It has actually changed my way of thinking. If I'm ever having a bad day, all I think is "I need to participate", and I talk to new people, become better friends with the people I already know, and try new things. I've never met you Stephen Chbosky, but I really love you for having that effect on me
marveladdict 2 years ago 2
Exactly- Charlie forced me to accept people more. I find myself digging myself more and more into holes so I'm probably going to have to reread it again.
I always wonder what it would be like to talk to Chbosky. It would be interesting
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
I agree.
Fantastic book.
sexpantherize 2 years ago
this book is, simply put, amazing.
i cried so much at the end.
it changed the way i think about a lot of things.
halleeexox 2 years ago
this isnt the song this is the song his sisters boyfriend gave to her in the tape and the infinate song he said had baby in it or something but i cant remember
Zamonda94 2 years ago
i am very aware good sir. the infinite song is- i'm pretty sure- "landslide"
this song just seemed appropriate since it was charlie's favorite but thank you
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
i just stayed up the whole night reading the book and i cried during the whole ending and and i love this book now it was really an amazing book. i really loved the poem his friend Micheal wrote :) and i love this song to
growingsunflowers 2 years ago
the poem wasn't actually written by michael or stephen chbosky, i'm not just saying this to you but to everyone.
it's called "absolutely nothing" by some doctor. it really wigged my out when i found out it wasn't written by chbosky
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
It says on the wikipedia page that it's by someone called Osoanon Nimuss.
I'm almost certain that that's a pseudonym, though, since it reads Oh So Anonymous, and there's pretty much no info at all about him/her on the web.
=D
ashytwin 2 years ago
I love this book so much, I have read it a number of times and it is true that you always find something new, it touched me like no other book has. I want to give it to a friend of mine, actually, want to give them my own copy of it because I had underlined all the beautiful lines in it but i can't now cause I left it behind somewhere but i'm scared they won't like it, that maybe they won't be open minded towards it and maybe it is a bit too sensitive.
hecalledherbob 2 years ago
The one thing Perks Of Being A Wallflower taught me was, no matter what the consequences, do what feels right to you. "Participate" in your own life and make your own choices. Give them the book, the may really love it in the end and you could change someone's life. I know it's changed mine, and I plan on giving it to my friends so we can all bask in its glory :)
marveladdict 2 years ago 2
It's that poem. When Charlie says he finally understands the end. That part killed me. This book is stunning.
fickshonal 2 years ago
wat did he understand .that the person killed themself of what??
Zamonda94 2 years ago
mhm. he understood that he killed himself and why.
fickshonal 2 years ago
beyond amazing, this book.
itswing09 2 years ago
agreed
LeoTitanicfan4eva 2 years ago
i never did understand the ending. can anyone explain?
poisheee 2 years ago
when charlie was little his aunt helen molested him. he had post tramatic stress disorder which is a mental disorder in which a person suffers side effects of a blocked memory of sexual abuse or other tramatizing expiriences which was when charlie couldn't sleep with sam and ended up lying in front of a tv naked. he wrote his last letter before he watched the tv naked and wrote to the person again when he got out of the clinic he was sent to...
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
when he was riding in the truck and started crying about how he was finally alive symbolized how his ptsd was what held him back from living in the moment and what was seperating him from interacting with normal people and once he put that expirience behind him he was able to live and to understand that he was living. or at least that's how i interpretted it- i haven't read it in a few months but i think the best way to understand charlie is to have a good idea what ptsd is
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
i hope that helped a little
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
is that what relly happened?? it clears up alotta the stuff in the book
NFCmarcusandme 2 years ago
didn't it mention his post tramatic stress disorder in the end? i haven't read it in a while
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
I knew it was something along those lines. The end was mildly confusing but I'm glad there was someone that could explain it.
This book was so fantastic though, I wish they told us who he was writing to.
Moneymaker8541629 2 years ago
idk if anyone picks up on this but you know how Charlie cries all the time?After he remembers what happened to him he stops crying. He doesn't even cry when he's w/Sam.
Weird, huh?
Also, THIS SONG! Like, actually listen to it... There are only a few songs in the world that I consider the most depressing, this one, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry by Elvis, and Disorder by Joy Division. It's really fitting that he would like this song though because he's living his life asleep.
just observations.
KevinJonasIsWayCool 2 years ago
if you mean he doesn't cry when he's with sam in a whole that's not true, because sam has to tell him to stop crying all the time and he ends up crying at the very end when he's riding in the tunnel because he feels alive
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
well "tell him to stop crying all the time" actually not all of the time just at the end
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
I meant in the hospital, idk why I said w./Sam. And yeah, I forgot about the end, but I guess the point I was trying to make is that he cries for different reasons in the end than he did in the rest of the book.
KevinJonasIsWayCool 2 years ago
one of my favorite books...so amazing.
xojg 2 years ago
fucking amazing.
OfficiallyTori 2 years ago
"I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist."
I love this book.
My4Immortal 2 years ago 5
does anyone know the name of the boy on the cover?
ebizbites 2 years ago
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ebizbites 2 years ago
i fucking LOVE this book
i cried so hard when i realized what Aunt Helen did to him
and why he went to the hospital and couldn't be with sam that night.
This book changed my perspective on life, and i can identify with charlie so much. the book is so personal. it feels as though he's writing those letters to YOU.
fucking amazing.
ladymimi101 2 years ago
wait was he raped by his aunt? i was kinda confused when someone told me that after i read the book. i totally didn't pick up on that.
emissuperhot 2 years ago
THIS was an amazing book.
JessicaGeraci 2 years ago
dude no worries, i have to read this for school. im probably not going to read it, so thank you. you probably just scored me some points on a test i will have on this.
IdPorkKevinJonas 2 years ago
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ebizbites 2 years ago
i did, it didn't really leave an impression on me. i'll have to read it again some other time i guess.
IdPorkKevinJonas 2 years ago
wow, fuck you. i didn't finish the book yet.
IdPorkKevinJonas 2 years ago
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i just finished this book, it was like the bestest book ever!!! i love sam and charlie, and i hate how he was such a pussy @ the end =(
OfficiallyTori 2 years ago
i remember reading this book 3 years ago in my freshman year of highschool. the story seemed like it was written just for me. it helped me deal with the hard times of that first year. and i relate a lot of the good times to this book.
Now that i just finished my senior year i really miss those times
freshformeth 2 years ago
I first read this book three years ago and it changed my life. Time to read it again I think =)
JohnnyDeppFan1433 2 years ago 4
I'm reading this right now. Like, litterally I have it right in front of me. This is the most beautiful book. I can relate in so many ways. It makes me cry. It makes me think. I do feel infinite when I read it. This is my favorite book because
it's the last book I've read. :]
Pheimos 2 years ago 10
LOL, Nice, I'm reading the book now
88nata88 2 years ago 2
I think I've bought this book about 15 times for various friends. I reread it every summer.
smith1887 2 years ago 2
i gave this book to the last best friend i ever had
we still talk about it too
its a good gift to give people i think, everyone should read it
acursivelullaby 2 years ago
I also bought this book for my best friend at the time. This was years ago. She thanked me. We stopped talking after, though. Kind of makes it more meaningful in a way.
ivanago 2 years ago 2
This is the one book I cannot stop reading.... It never gets old... The part about Patrick and Brad made me cry... But Charlie, it's just... hmm... he's amazing...
demoncake1329 2 years ago
everything in the book is amazing and makes me cry this book has taught me alot of things.
cherrybomb305 2 years ago 3