Ever read a book so bad, that afterwords you have a bad taste in your mouth? Read a book lately that sucks so hard, you have to make sure this isn't a novalization of a porn script?

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky does do one thing like no other book can. It jams you in the Jack Skellington Hot Topic brand socks of emo life headfirst. This book is about the adventures of Charlie, told via means of letters to his anon friend. This book makes fat emo girls and boys wet in their panties. It has so much "adult" material. Like buttsecks, drug use, and other things kids come into contact with. Not. Though I was surprised that this book mentioned cutting yourself only a few times. I myself had to suppress the urge a number of times to keep from cutting myself. Those times I also was verging between cutting myself over grief, or the urge to kill myself.

Here is the plot of the story.

Charlie is a high-school freshman, who comes of age in the book. He shares an incest first kiss with his sister. He has a gay best friend who is boyfriend with the High School Quarterback. His entire family was beat as children. His other best friend died before the book started and a mutual friend they shared quit being friends with Charlie because she wanted his friend's penis. He ends up with a hard-on with so much grief and angst, that he talks to a teacher. He ends up making a special friend in a teacher who pays special attention to Charlie. We all know how that ends.

His teacher gives him special assignments to work on, like watch movies and find the deeper meanings in them. Boring. They already have a book about Philosophy in the Matrix, we don't need more bullshit liberal lies. He ends up having a breakdown, and remembers that his Aunt beat him. OMG. He takes pills to be better and something something something...

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