I chose this book because one of my friends suggested it to me, and since we were Co-Presidents of our book club in high school I trusted her judgement. I'm glad I did.
This book maybe be about a boy going threw the trials of teen angst, with a neglectful family, but the story touched me deeply because his friends were a lot like mine in high school and they had the same love for The Rocky Horror Picture Show I still have.
The book is a series of letters written by the main character, "Charlie". He doesn't want whoever he is writing to to know who he really is, or who is friends are. All names are changed for that reason.
He befriends two people named Sam and Patrick. Threw them he gets into the world of sex, drugs, and amazing musicals.
One of their favorite activities is to get high off of pot, get into the bed of a pick up truck, and go threwa tunnel. They calling it being infinite.
This is a book that should either be given to teens or avoided at any cost. If the kid is going threw a hard time and needs someone or thing to relate to, then this is the book.
If the kid is in to drugs and is just an all around trouble maker, I doubt they would read any book, but this book should be avoided. On the grounds that Charlie was doing it out of presser and wanting to escape from his troubles and world, most teens now just do it because it's illegal and will not relate
This book is about going threw the teen emotional hell that is the freshmen year of high school, and coming out better and stronger because of it.
This is the book for people who need to relate to a character and who wants to reminise about how hard your frist year of high school was and realize how much stronger you are because of it.
In our own way we all get to feel infinite.
I don't exactly know what happens when one gets in the bed of a pick-up truck and goes through a tunnel. Do they stand up or do anything more dangerous than just being in the bed of the truck?
ReplyDeleteSome phrasing in this post is a bit choppy (possibly because of word choice). Readers of your blog will be as into books as you are, and they'll expect a high literary standard for the discussion...so just tackle a final proofread for spelling and word choice.
I really liked your juxtaposition of being in the high school book club and now. I got a bit of insight into you that was new and that makes this blog unique (we never had a book club at my high school, unfortunately).
As for analysis--let's get dirty with comparisons here. This book was set in 1991, right? Have times changed so much since then (I was in high school then!)? What kind of character is the protagonist, and how can life's lessons be learned through narrative?