Perks of being a bookworm
I came home after giving my exams yesterday... On reaching I was welcomed by a pleasant sight.. The books I had ordered three days back had finally reached home.. :) I was beyond ecstatic! I had ordered 2: Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Casual Vacancy while my sister ordered other two for her, which I shall share of course..
So I sat down to read "Perks of...." as Casual Vacancy was way too huge in size as compared to Perks.. And today noon when I finally finished reading it, I felt infinite!
What do I say?? You barely come across a book that tells its story with raw honesty. That doesn't shows how they coped with their problems and succeeded in overcoming them, but how they faced them and learnt to live with them. That does not make you cry, laugh, get irritated or get bored with, but makes you turn the page over and over with no thoughts in your mind, no emotions! But when you put down the book for the slightest moment, you feel like screaming and resume reading again...
Charlie (the main character) is nowhere like me. Nerdy, sensitive, emotional, a good person, etc. He is the perfect son a mother would want. A complete role model. Even Mother Teresa would claim him. But being in an American society and that too being a teenage, he of course is a freak in their eyes (his schoolmates). None of the things he did or faced did I ever encounter myself. Or may be, that he found his life's two soulmates in his best friends Patrick and Sam does not coincide with my life in anyway..
Yet I couldn't help but feel connected to him. Somehow I believed I was in his place, that I was him and that somehow, his life is parallel to mine. At face value it appears you have nothing in common with any of the characters. But if you go deep, there is something, something that clicks between both of you (I have yet to know what exactly). It makes you feel apathetic may be.. But different all the same.
I am a growing teenager and this type of books will definitely be recommended to me... May be I am not inspired but I felt "different" after reading it.. And I know, this feeling will stay on for a very long time.. Not life-changing or anything, but it will stay all the same..
So I sat down to read "Perks of...." as Casual Vacancy was way too huge in size as compared to Perks.. And today noon when I finally finished reading it, I felt infinite!
What do I say?? You barely come across a book that tells its story with raw honesty. That doesn't shows how they coped with their problems and succeeded in overcoming them, but how they faced them and learnt to live with them. That does not make you cry, laugh, get irritated or get bored with, but makes you turn the page over and over with no thoughts in your mind, no emotions! But when you put down the book for the slightest moment, you feel like screaming and resume reading again...
Charlie (the main character) is nowhere like me. Nerdy, sensitive, emotional, a good person, etc. He is the perfect son a mother would want. A complete role model. Even Mother Teresa would claim him. But being in an American society and that too being a teenage, he of course is a freak in their eyes (his schoolmates). None of the things he did or faced did I ever encounter myself. Or may be, that he found his life's two soulmates in his best friends Patrick and Sam does not coincide with my life in anyway..
Yet I couldn't help but feel connected to him. Somehow I believed I was in his place, that I was him and that somehow, his life is parallel to mine. At face value it appears you have nothing in common with any of the characters. But if you go deep, there is something, something that clicks between both of you (I have yet to know what exactly). It makes you feel apathetic may be.. But different all the same.
I am a growing teenager and this type of books will definitely be recommended to me... May be I am not inspired but I felt "different" after reading it.. And I know, this feeling will stay on for a very long time.. Not life-changing or anything, but it will stay all the same..