The Perks of Being a Wallflower

De verdad la calidad está súper bien y todo súper bien

I found Charlie to be a very sympathetic and engaging narrator and you can't help liking him and wanting him to heal and grow and be happy. The format of the book being a series of letters over the course of a high school year works very well and you get a real insight into Charlie's frame of mind and takes you back to how it felt to be a teenager. Sam and Patrick are great characters and their friendship feels very real and genuine. I don't agree with all the moral messages of the book, especially that it's okay to have an abortion, but the main tenet of being yourself and being there and living life is a message we all need to hear, young or old. I don't know if this book is appropriate for younger teenagers due to the content, but I enjoyed reading this as an adult and feel the author has a lot to say that is worth while and wise.

I love this book so much, if you have watched the movie I recommend the book! For all ages ;great quality overall great.

 

Llegó en muy buen estado y se siente de buena calidad

Me gustó mucho, lo recomiendo si te gustan los libros fáciles de leer. Es una historia común y realista pero eso es lo que lo hace bueno pues te identificas con los personajes y llegas a conectar emocionalmente con ellos. Lloré varías veces.

I first watched the movie, I really didn't know there was a book first, so you can imagine my surprise when I entered the title in amazon and found it on sale, I finished the book 2 days after I recieved it, because it arrived earlier than expected, and I always enjoy the waiting time for delivery, it just gets me excited, I personally recommend this book for anybody who would like to read a quick story, but with the elements of the wholesome and depressing life for a believable character.

Me ayudo mucho a practicar el reading con el ingles, tengo ingles basico y lo entendí a la perfección, disfrute el libro, la presentación de la pasta dura es bonita.

La historia es buenisima, es uno de mis libros favoritos, la pasta tiene una impresión un poco opaca, pero me gusta mucho que es la imagen original.

Excelente vinyl del soundtrack de esta película !!! Llego mucho antes de los esperado y en excelentes condiciones.

映画がとてもよかったのと、最近になって洋楽に興味を持ち始めたので購入しました。映画のサントラなので「期待通り」なのは当然といえばそうなのですが、映画のシーンが蘇ってきてとっても楽しんでます。

Das Leben als MauerblümchenAls Charlie sein erstes Jahr an der High School antritt, hat das Schicksal im schon viele Steine in den Weg gelegt. Seine Tante Helen, die er über alles geliebt hat, ist gestorben als er sieben Jahre alt und sein bester Freund auf der Junior High hat Selbstmord begangen. Er kommt mit nichts als schweren Gefühlen in das Leben einer High School und fühlt sich isoliert von der Welt. Sein Alltag verbringt er am liebsten mit Büchern, mitunter auch die, die ihm sein Englischlehrer immer wieder gibt und zu denen nur er Essays schreiben soll.Sein Leben ändert sich erst, als er bei einen Footballspiel Sam und Patrick kennenlernt. Sie sind in ihrem Abschlussjahr und führen Charlie ins Schulleben ein. In ein Leben zwischen Zensuren, sozialen Druck und Drogen. Immer mehr versucht Charlie sich zwischen all diesen neuen Erfahrungen sich selbst zu finden. Über die erste Liebe, über das Scheitern und das Gefühl, alles falsch zu machen."The Perks of Being a Wallflower" ist ein Roman, der am Anfang der 90er Jahre ansetzt. Eine Zeit, in der das Internet und das Handy den Großteil des Lebens bestimmten, das soziale Leben von realen Treffen und Telefonaten über Festnetz bestimmt waren. In dieser Zeit, wo Mixtapes noch Bedeutung hatten befindet sich Charlie und versucht seinen Platz im Lebenskarussell zu finden. Bis dahin könnte man denken, man hätte es mit einer gewöhnlichen High School Geschichte zu tun, von einem, der am Rande der Gesellschaft ist und plötzlich aufsteigt und dann vielleicht wieder fällt. Doch darum geht es nicht in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Es geht vielmehr um eine Randfigur, in der großes Talent steckt, dass niemand sehen will. Charlie scheint für seine Umgebung fast unsichtbar und bekommt selten das zurück, was er anderen gibt. Er ist einer dieser Menschen, die sensibel sind, einfühlsam und alles tun, dass ihr Umfeld glücklich ist, aber nichts im Gegenzug verlangt, obwohl er die Anerkennung in seinem Leben braucht.Und dieser Umstand macht diesen Roman zu einer Besonderheit. Verfasst in Briefen, die an eine anonyme Person geschrieben werden, erzählt Charlie aus der Ich-Perspektive seine Geschichte. Unverkrampft, ohne große sprachlichen Spielereien, sondern schlicht und einfach auf Papier gebannt. Es sind hier die einfachen Worte, die einem das Lesen schwer machen, weil sie so ehrlich sind und vom Herzen kommen. Manchmal sieht man sich selbst mit heruntergezogenen Mundwinkeln vor dem Buch sitzend, dann wieder strahlend und bangend und wünscht sich nur das Beste für Charlie, der endlich aus seiner Isolation herausbricht und am Leben teilnimmt.Als Protagonist wiederspiegelt er die Ängste der Jugend, die jugendliche Verwirrung und die Freude, die man entfindet und die plötzliche Einsamkeit, wenn es nicht so klappt wie man es sich erhofft. Ein Jeder findet Facetten in Charlie, die einen an einem selbst erinnern. Und wenn es nicht Charlie ist, sind es die anderen Figuren, die einem ans Herz gehen. Ganz unabhängig davon ob es die einfühlsame Sam ist oder der homosexuelle Patrick, der seine Liebe zu einem Footballspieler verheimlichen muss.Stephen Chbosky eckt an mit seiner Geschichte, greift Themen auf, die keiner richtig aussprechen will. Sei es der Drogenkonsum aus Verzweiflung oder das Austesten seiner Grenzen. Der oberflächliche Gruppenzwang und das Mitmachen, nur damit man in der Gruppe anerkannt wird. Die Probleme mit der Familie, mit den Geschwistern, wenn man größer wird. Oder das Verstecken seiner eigenen Sexualität, weil sie die Gesellschaft nicht anerkennen will. Wie man sich den Normaen der Gesellschaft fügen soll, aber es aus seinen Wesen nicht kann. Jeder möchte etwas Spezielles sein, jeder möchte anerkannt werden, doch manchmal will die Gesellschaft einen nicht so nehmen wie man ist.Alle Themenfelder finden ihren Platz in diesen kontroversen Roman voller Tiefsinnigkeit, der es schafft in einfachen Worten die Geschichte eines Mauerblümchens einzufangen, das anfängt zu Leben, mit all seinen Zweifeln, Ängsten und Verwirrungen. Und der schlussendlichen Freude am Leben. Es ist diese Plastizität, die das Lesen manchmal schwer macht. Dinge wirken real, Situationen lebensecht und die Charaktere sind so unterschiedlich und einzigartig wie die Menschen selbst.FazitEinfühlsam, authentisch und mit Blick fürs Detail hat Stephen Chbosky einen Roman geschaffen, der einen faszniert und in den Bann zieht. In "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" wird Jugend dargestellt wie sie ist. Rau, verwirrend und oftmals von vielen Ängsten geprägt. Eine nahegehende Geschichte mit Tiefgang und der Aussage, dass in jedem von uns ein Mauerblümchen stecken kann.

Of course I loved the book. It's so much more than "young-adult combing-of-age". For me, it was deeply moving, an often gripping story, particularly at the end, and it opened a window not just into teenagers, but into life at all stages -- this while being extremely well-written and without calling attention to its well-written-ness. What I found most striking, was showing life through a different kind of mind, what's sometimes called Asperger's Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism. AS/HFA isn't a disease, but an important difference, important to us all. What makes AS/HFA an important difference is its talents, particularly its special "perceptiveness", though not "perceptiveness" in the usual sense. More as a deep meaning to what Robert Burns wrote, "And would some power, the Gods give us, To see ourselves as others see us!"(Know this book deals directly with many painful topics including abuse, suicide and violent bullying. It's not for "more sensitive" readers.)Reading several reviews, I'm not surprised that some reviewers found the lead character, Charlie, "too sweet" and "improbable". In this, understandably, they miss Charlie's "diffferent" mind and more, his "different" way of being. I'm a psychotherapist, specializing for several decades in people for whom therapy has failed, often people, like Charlie, who've been hospitalized. And a dozen years ago, I discovered that maybe a quarter of my clients were in the autism spectrum, almost always AS/HFA -- often highly intelligent and able to relate to the neurotypically-structured social world, though relating "differently" and needing much more conscious struggling with the basics. After working several years with AS/HFA, I found these people had remarkable powers, and the usual "unable to relate or care" descritpion of autism just wasn't true in the ordinary sense. Most were neither uninterested nor uncaring -- in fact, quite the opposite. They desperately wanted to relate and, in some ways, they were over-caring, extremely sensitive to others. They related differently, not only to others, but to themselves and their world and, in particular, to language. Often not badly, but just very differently.Writing in first person gives the author no place to hide. You MUST have an extremely interesting character, and you MUST know that character with ruthless clarity. Chbosky does, and he does so well that I suspect he may have a touch of autism himself. Or at least it runs in his family. Disclosure: after several years working with AS/HFA children, teens and adults, I noticed that I was unusually drawn to them; I could almost use that diagnostically. With that awareness, I figured out that autism runs in my family. And with that, the disease faded away and the differences began to shine through. Let me note a few points from "The Perks" to illustrate. Charlie's speech, thinking and relating, at first blush, seems to be almost child-like, more charcteristic of six years old than sixteen. He has an astonishing honesty, a naive not-understanding, and his use of words frequently has that unintended poetic feel of children. But look more carefully: Yes, there are situations he doesn't get in ways shocking for a middle-teen. But as he thinks about them and questions them, he often goes right to the heart-of-the-matter, and a heart-of-the-matter that's usually missed or forgotten by those of us, especially adults, who "just get it" and go on. Let me give an extended quote from the book's end:"Later, [my friends, Sam and Patrick,] came by in Sam's pickup truck. And we went to the Big Boy just like we always did. Sam told us about her life at school, which sounded very exciting. And I told her about my life in the hospital, which didn't. And Patrick made jokes to keep everyone honest. After we left, we got in Sam's pickup truck, and just like Sam promised, we drove to the tunnel. About half a mile from the tunnel, Sam stopped the car, and I climbed in back. Patrick played the radio really loud so I could hear it, and as we were approaching the tunnel, I listened to the music and thought about all the things that people have said to me over the past year. I thought about Bill telling me I was special. And my sister saying she loved me. And my mom, too. And even my dad and brother when I was in the hospital. I thought about Patrick calling me his friend. And I thought about Sam telling me to do things. To really be there. And I just thought how great it was to have friends and a family....""But mostly, I was crying because I was suddenly very aware of the fact that it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite."Starting out, it seems almost primitively black-&-white, until "And Patrick made jokes to keep everyone honest." In the context of all that literal-ness, it's startling. Charlie doesn't just note that "Patrick is telling jokes". Humor is often a struggle for AS/HFA, and so they need to work at understanding it. Through his work, Charlie is seeing not only Patrick's style of humor, but its function. Since AS/HFA often doesn't instinctively grasp "what" to do, they approach others and their world more basically through "why it's done" and "what it means". Because Charlie struggles to see the function of so much, he remains very much in touch with a stripped-down sense of that function's truth. Again, "And Patrick made jokes to keep everyone honest."Then Charlie's "telling" returns to seemingly smple description. But read again: the description is less "simple" than "primary". And in many ways, this is the importance for us in AS/HFA relating. Attention to detail, of what simply "is", is consciously, clearly combined with an almost-primary way of relating to themselves, to others, to their world, as well as a primary relating to language. And when we see ourselves, our world, our lives through Charlie's AS/HFA "primary" lens, we not only see afresh. We see what is "primary", what goes to the heart-of-the-matter, what is the stripped down function, and so what is truly important. Not preachy, but very experiential -- "truly important" very much as-lived.And Charlie winds up poetically pointing to primary experiences, connections and always-available potentials within and around us all: "And that was enough to make me feel infinite". And he got there through self and love and family and friends. Frankly, as a therapist who works most-of-all with severe trauma -- war PTSD, attachment disorders, sexual abuse, and deep grievings -- that's a short list, in those two paragraphs, of what gets lost in trauma and of what it takes to heal.OK, I'm probably probing more than interests most potential readers. As you can see in other reviews, there are many levels to enjoy in this book. If you like, though, let yourself be touched by Charlie's "primary" description-plus-function. You may find it not only intriguging and moving, but healing. And who of us can't use a touch of healing now-and-then?P.S. I read this on Kindle and, even on my laptop, I found it an easy read. It was particularly helpful because, now over 60 years old, I can boost up the print size, making reading more relaxing.