With one qualification, I can say that I totally loved this book.The qualification relates to something that happens near the end. Suffice it to say, it seems like the author felt that his book wouldn't be literary enough if he didn't add this element, and I think it put sort of a sour twist on the story, which would have been quite fine without it.
Aside from that one little exception, this book was a complete pleasure to read. As I said before, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary novel, with Charlie is describing his high school freshman year experience to a friend whose identity you never fully discover.
Charlie's observations are both heartbreakingly innocent and incredibly lucid, and it's refreshing to see the world through his eyes.
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