标题: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 书评 [打印本页] 作者: 大道说书 时间: 2013-6-14 22:03 标题: The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 书评 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. Since its publication, Stephen Chbosky's haunting debut novel h ...
书评内容会自动聚合在本帖中作者: 方FIFI 时间: 2013-7-21 16:52
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the first English book I have ever finished. The last one I read was The Book Thief, which I loved but only made it to the middle. For it’s my first book review, I’m not sure what to write about, so I guess I shall share some of my thoughts.
It’s a perfect book to read when you are sad or upset or something like that. I got to know this novel when I entered university and one of my best friends recommended it to me. I began to read and soon I found that I love it! I guess that maybe all freshmen feel alike because of those uncertainty and new faces and new problems that occur to us (the book’s protagonist Charlie is a freshman of high school). Charlie’s experience makes me feel that I am not alone and that my situation is actually much better than him.
Charlie is considered as a wallflower, which refers to the guys who are shy and do not get involved in dancing or talking to people at social events. Wallflowers are usually not popular among people in our daily life. However, it occurs to me that nearly everyone has once been a “wallflower” before. When we were little, we used to be shy and we didn’t know how to express ourselves, just like Charlie, who knows the answers to the teacher’s questions but never raise his hand, and who remains on sidelines at parties. When we grow up, we gradually learn to “participate” in our lives. So we are not that different from wallflowers, it’s just that some learn faster and some slower. Maybe they just need someone right to teach them about it.
For Charlie, Sam and Patrick are the ones who guide him to the real world. With their help, Charlie begins to join the dancing, make mix tapes for friends and learns to express love. I feel really happy for him. I also appreciate Patrick a lot because he sees the positive aspect of Charlie. I remember he once said, “You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. You are a wallflower.” I think it would be great if we can see things and understand and at the same time know how to express (instead of keeping quiet about them). So, wallflowers do have their advantages, what they need is to participate and express. On the other hand, we need to learn to see things and understand things from them, too.
Apart from the story, I love this book also because it was written in form of letters, it’s easy to read, it gives me a better knowledge of American high school life and it gives me a great sense of youth and infinite. 作者: 鹅耳兔 时间: 2013-8-14 09:47
The Perks of Being a Wallflower，
简单但写得动人。
困在自我厌弃和山穷水复里，看到可能会来的转机就高兴地哭了。
在被其他生命接纳的一刻，迎着风跟灯火感受到无限。
这就是为什么我们希望通过走得很远遇见别的人来跳脱此刻的自己，
活过来，变得好起来。
知道还有别的可能，那饱满的喜悦让我哽住不能言作者: 罗马森 时间: 2013-8-16 22:19
今天下午的芝加哥终于下起了纷纷扬扬的大雪，我坐在窗边读完了最近几个月一直在看的小说《The Perks of Being a Wallflower》。读这本书我曾经两次掩卷流泪。这是一本写的很优美的小说，文字很简单，但透着一股难得的纯真。
印象最深的一句话是Charlie，Patrick和Sam一起在车上，车里大声放着他们最喜欢的歌一首叫做《Landslide》的歌，在经过隧道时他们把车开得更加快，感受着隧道里呼啸的风，他们快乐地尖叫着，Charlie说“I feel infinite”。作者: Karl彼 时间: 2013-8-18 14:22
Recently,I have read a book called "The perks of Being a Wallflower",which has been made into a film.
First of all, I just only watched the film because of the heroine who played my favourite role in "Harry Potter".
When I read further , I found there are so many commons between Charlie and me.
I couldn't help thinking of him,for his mix tape,his single word "sad"written on his diary.He always keeps asking himself when we are all suffering during the awkward ages.
It turns out that as I read every sensitive word about his feeling, I found I am not alone while I know that someone is also trapping into a muddy places where we both want to get out of such a miserable frustrating hell by all means.
What I really long for is that figure out why I come here,being with friends,family,doing so many finals over and over and why I need to be here.
I've heard the people around us and they have their answers,their purpose and their dreams.When they have those ,they will feel relieved and more comfortable than others.
It's not necessary for them to figure out any more.
It's our time to stand straight being scared like the wallflower to face everything we don't like at all or we try to keep away.
I also read a simple word, it says what we actually know is not our desire but our longings.
As a wallflower, from its outside,it looks pretty graceful but from its inner,it always feels pain and suffers and it won't try to face the truth or itself,even though it sneaks out and try to participate.作者: Louisk 时间: 2013-8-18 16:02
我很喜欢这本书，但是你若问我为什么喜欢，我想首先我大概只能说这是一种感觉。一个敏感善良的孩子在青春里摸索成长的感觉。
我喜欢Charlie的细腻敏感、善良友爱甚至是他在同龄人里的那么一点“怪异”；我喜欢Charlie的朋友家人，Sam,Patrick,Bill and so forth；我喜欢Charlie喃喃自语式的叙述，朋友，家人，生活，青春。
贴上讨论区的两个资源帖。
Charlie的书单：
http://book.douban.com/doulist/1675236/
One Winter, Charlie为Patrick做的mix tape：
http://book.douban.com/subject/1427831/discussion/48474897/作者: 依稀曾 时间: 2013-8-19 00:00
It doesn't take long for me to finish the book, because I do feel I am reading someone's letter which is so easy to relate to.
I do mean the things Charlie's talking about are easy to relate to, though he's from a totally different age and country. Because I believe we all have that time when we are afraid and don't know how to participate. While reading the book, I remember many things about my own life: times when I was there but I wasn't really there and things I did but I don't remember a single moment. I feel kind of warm and comfortable while reading, because I know the fears I had are shared by someone far away. It's normal.
At the end of the book, I am so happy for Charlie since he 'turn things around" and he doesn't need to write letters to participate in his life anymore.
It was a great ending of a great story.
p.s. the writer is so smart, he describes the life of a freshman with a group of senior friends. So the book can easily reminds me of both the time when I first enter high school and that when I left. Love it.作者: LtheFi 时间: 2013-8-21 08:45
Perks of Being a Wallflower has to be one of the books that I could probably read it a million times and it never gets old.
Charlie and I don’t have very much in common, I didn’t do drugs nor did I smoke when I was in high school, but the things he went through in high school were something almost everyone went through. Some kids were motivated in doing something by peer pressure but in Charlie’s case I think it was more of curiosity rather than peer pressure. This book showed us how a special kid like Charlie would cope with being in high school and overcoming the problems he would encounter as he goes along.
I'm not a teenage anymore, but I would still be able to relate to it. This book reminds me of old friendships. I had made a mixed tape for my best friend at that moment, but things change and friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody. Especially when I get older, I do have a couple of friends but it seems like no one really knows who I really am because I never let them find out who I really was. They know my name and a couple of unimportant things but I think that’s about it. They don’t really care about the things I like, the things that make me cry, the things that make me smile. Sometimes I feel it good, because it is equip me for solitude. Sometimes I feel it terrible, when I really need someone to talk to.
Another thing I loved about this book was how it was written. This book was transcend time and geography.
There were a lot of good quotations in this book but one really stood out for me:
"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them."
I don’t think this is much of a review but more of a rant.