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This book isn't realistic to high schoolers. No one goes out for a drive and feels infinite unless they're high, while listening to some depressing Smith's song. No teacher cries along with their spouse/girlfriend in front of some kid because he is brillant. That's stupid and misleading. Just because u happen to be a loner, doesn't make you smart. The kid, charlie, is overexaggerated and that in my opinion is where the story falls apart. This kid is not real, tangible, or honest, which brings the plot of the book to a screeching halt because the author tries to deal with honest real situations, but ultimately fail because the kid himself isn't honest, but just  false depiction of what a 30 year old man (and basically everybody else out there) wanted his teenage years to be like: introverted, but accepted by the coolest indie kids in school. Silent, yet thought of as the smartest and most brillant student alive.
I do admit this book has its touching moments, and quotes like "the love you get is equal to love u think u deserve" (or something like that) are really great. It just seems that the author had a bunch of great things he wanted to say about highschool and life, and threw them in the most overexagerated, stereotypical, pretentious book about school.
I also hated how the author would bring up important subject matters like suicide, rape, sex and whateverelse and drop them soon. I found that the one continous story line was the family's internal struggles and problems with themselves. Maybe, that's what the Chobsky had indeed experienced in high school, and maybe that's why he wrote so well about it.