"The Perks of Being a Wallflower", the title said. More like "The Perks of Being a Wall". 
 There are times that I think Charlie's narration style is similar with Pat Peoples from The Silver Linings Playbook. I like Pat, but Charlie's just fell flat for me. Perhaps it is because Charlie was used as some kind of device; all the "authentic teenager problems" were happened around him, not to him, hence the "wallflower" in the title. That is also why in my mind I reduced the title into "a wall"; Charlie did stay there and witness everything, like a wall would, without all the appeal of being a "flower". 
 There are too much issues crammed into one book: drugs, homosexuality, sexual molestation, etc. etc. etc. Those are real issues, I know. Some teens out there might experienced one of them, sometimes a combination of them at once. However for a fiction, I would prefer to have a focus on one problem, or perhaps more... as long as they are being addressed properly. Not just mentioned in passing just to give impression that "this life is far from ideal. Hard life, man, hard life." 
 If you like it, good for you, but this book just doesn't work for me. I might still watch the movie though because Emma Watson and Ezra Miller were in it, who am I kidding?