Title: The Perks of Reading this Book
Product review: Because it was being touted as a "modern-day 'Catcher in the Rye,'" I didn't think there was any way that this -- the first novel by Stephen Chbosky -- could live up to its billing. I was surpised to find that it far surpassed my expectations. The short book is written as a series of letters to an unnamed "friend," in which the protagonist, Charlie, shares the highs, lows, dreams, and disappontments of high school.Charlie is a misfit -- he's been kept back a year because of a nervous breakdown -- but he finds a niche with a group of edgy older teens. During the course of this school year, he finds that love doesn't wear just one face, that friends sometimes have to take a stand, and that the past has a way of coming back. Highly recommended.
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