about the book: Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion has become a modern classic.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie’s letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives or to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and music—when all one requires to feel infinite is that perfect song on that perfect drive.
Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.
the Review: I will most likely not be the first to admit that I mostly wanted to read this because it was a movie with Emma Watson in it, and it helped that it was one of the books chosen to be read in my book club. But even though I picked it up because the movie had Emma in it I never would have expected it to hit me so hard, the story is powerful and holds so many meanings that it could make your head spin, it shows the real life of many teens throughout America perhaps even the world. Charlie was a quiet boy that to put it simply had a lot of issues, issues that he couldn't talk to anyone about. But still he found a way to make friends that saw him for who he was and excepted him for it. The kind of friends that we all really want.
this book hit me right where it counts it hit me in the heart I felt what Charlie was feeling when he wrote the letters in the book, and I felt it when he said that they were infinite, because no matter what we are all infinite in our own ways. I loved this book and I would suggest it to anyone no matter your age and whether or not you like to read, because it's a wonderfully written story and I feel that it will truly be infinite Movie Preview:
about the Author: In 1992, Chbosky graduated from the University of Southern California's screenwriting program.[10] He wrote, directed, and acted in the 1995 independent film The Four Corners of Nowhere, which got Chbosky his first agent, was accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, and became one of the first films shown on the Sundance Channel.[4] In the late 1990s, Chbosky wrote several unproduced screenplays, including ones titled Audrey Hepburn's Neck and Schoolhouse Rock.[11]
In 1994, Chbosky was working on a "very different type of book" than The Perks of Being a Wallflower when he wrote the line, "I guess that's just one of the perks of being a wallflower."[8] Chbosky recalled that he "wrote that line. And stopped. And realized that somewhere in that [sentence] was the kid I was really trying to find."[8] After several years of gestation, Chbosky began researching and writing The Perks of Being a Wallflower, an epistolary novel that follows the intellectual and emotional maturation of a teenager who uses the alias Charlie over the course of his freshman year of high school. The book is semi-autobiographical; Chbosky has said that he "relate[s] to Charlie[...] But my life in high school was in many ways different."[8]
The book, Chbosky's first novel, was published by MTV Books in 1999, and was an immediate popular success with teenage readers; by 2000, the novel was MTV Books' best-selling title,[11] and The New York Times noted in 2007 that it had sold more than 700,000 copies and "is passed from adolescent to adolescent like a hot potato".[12] Wallflower also stirred up controversy due to Chbosky's portrayal of teen sexuality and drug use.[13] The book has been banned in several schools and appeared on the American Library Association's 2006 and 2008 lists of the 10 most frequently challenged books.[12][14]
In 2000, Chbosky edited Pieces, an anthology of short stories. The same year, he worked with director Jon Sherman on a film adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,[4] though the project fell apart by August 2000.[15] Chbosky wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film adaptation of the Broadway rock musical Rent, which received mixed reviews.[16] In late 2005, Chbosky said that he was writing a film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.[4]
In the mid-2000s, Chbosky decided, on the advice of his agent, to begin looking for work in television in addition to film.[10] Finding he "enjoyed the people [he met who were working] in television",[10] Chbosky agreed to serve as co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the CBS serial television drama Jericho, which premiered in September 2006. The series revolves around the inhabitants of the fictional small town of Jericho, Kansas in the aftermath of several nuclear attacks. Chbosky has said the relationship between Jake Green, the main character, and his mother, reflected "me and my mother in a lot of ways".[10] The first season of Jericho received lackluster ratings, and CBS canceled the show in May 2007.[17][18] A grassroots campaign to revive the series convinced CBS to renew the series for a second season, which premiered on February 12, 2008, before being canceled once more in March 2008.[19][20]
Chbosky wrote the screenplay and directed the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on his novel. Production took place in mid-2011, and the film was released in fall 2012. It starred Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, and Emma Watson. Chbosky was nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards.[21]
Chbosky currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Wisdom of the Bookworms, books are the doors to other worlds
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