Also vorweg: Das Programm ist OK. Absolut. Es ist nur leider tatsächlich anders aufgebaut als die Windows Variante, was die Bedienung zu Beginn etwas erschwert. Da ich im Büro am Windows Rechner arbeite und einen Mac für den privaten gebrauch habe, muss ich jedes Mal extrem umdenken, wenn ich bspw. eine PowerPoint Präsentation für die Firma daheim erstellen möchte.

the perks of being a wallflower is an incredibly truthful account of being a teenager in America today. I am 18 and could relate very well to the experiences Charlie had in the book, since it was set in the early nineties. The book is a compilation of letters to an anonymous friend that has no way to respond. The letters begin the day before Charlie's first day of high school, and continue until the day before his sophomore year of high school. They provide a chronological account of his life for a year, beginning with no friends, making a few friends, then losing them when they graduated and went off to college. The book reminded me of the TV show "Freaks and Geeks" because Charlie is not a popular kid. Most teenage books are about the lives of the popular people, the people the unpopular ones always want to be. Charlie, on the other hand, gets special reading assignments from his English teacher because he's more advanced than the other kids, goes to The Rocky Horror Picture Show every Friday night, and goes to his first football game alone. I cannot come up with another book I have read that has been so truthful and looked at the world, high school in particular, in such an honest way. As far as I know, this is Stephen Chbosky's first novel, but he has written several film scripts. He gets into the heart of this fourteen year old boy and shows the world through Charlie's eyes, which gives the reader a new perspective on friends, relationships, and high school in general. In the first few letters, I wondered where Charlie lived and who he was writing to. As I got deeper into the book, I no longer thought about these things because I was so caught up in the story of Charlie's life. By part 4, I was incredibly engrossed in the book and could not put it down at night; I stayed up until 1AM to finish it. Many of the things Charlie experimented with as a freshman, I, a senior, still have yet to experience. He has read books that I have never heard of, such as "The Fountainhead" and "The Stranger." He has many older friends, so they experiment with drugs, and he joins them. Charlie uses language very similar to mine, and writes in short, choppy sentences and paragraphs. At one of Charlie's loneliest times in the book, he writes, "I just wish that God or my parents of Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make all this go away. And disappear." (p. 139) Chbosky does not use much imagery, but the language he uses in this quotation makes the feelings of loneliness and frustration concrete. As a teenager in a similar situation, I can closely relate with how Charlie feels, and Chbosky expressed these feelings perfectly. When Charlie becomes friends with Sam and Patrick, they lead him into the world of drugs and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The only thing I did not like about the book was that it portrayed teenagers as heavily into drugs and sex. These things are not a part of my life, and I don't want anyone that reads the book to think that all teenagers are on drugs and having sex these days, although some of them are. I am not sure a conservative person would like this book, especially if the person were closed-minded. The story seems very real, and the things that Charlie deals with are probably things a closed-minded adult would never have dealt with, and therefore could not relate. This book is geared toward my generation, which is why it is an MTV book. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, as have several other people I have talked to about it. If you have an open mind and enjoy coming of age stories, I would highly recommend the perks of being a wallflower.