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Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky My rating: 0 of 5 stars “For when we shall fall in love, we shall make each other our favourite mixtapes, and we shall gift each other our favourite books as presents wrapped in printed paper, and we shall smoke cigarettes perched on the hilltops of the countryside and we shall make each other our favourite milkshakes and we shall talk about things that matter to us, and we shall go on a ride through the tunnels listening to our favourite tunes, and we shall feel infinite…” These fancies and fracases of sweet sixteen years have been celestially cloaked inside the interior monologues of a school-going boy named Charlie, who appears in the book as the protagonist character, writing letters, thereby, bestowing the author to represent this stirring book in an epistolary format, creating magic with words, which has also found its extension in the form of a blockbuster movie titled the same as the book. “S...