Title: a contrived plot; read Catcher in the Rye instead
Product review: I, too, read this book over the course of a few hours. It was a quick, simplistic and unfulfilling read. I found the plot to be contrived- it's as though Chbosky took every "crisis" that the evening news purports is rampant among high-schoolers, and thrust them all upon Charlie. As a current senior, I've never met anyone who has had this stereotypical high school experience. I liked Charlie, but found myself envious of him- he spends the novel reading amazing pieces of literature and I was wasting three hours on this story. I picked up this book initially because of comparisons drawn between it and Catcher in the Rye (one of my favorites), but in hindsight I realize that Holden would've called Chbosky and his novel phoney.
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