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Summary: Best book
Review: A diary of a young teenage girl with a drug problem, this book is one that changes people's perspectives on drug use. The book is a very quick read and many who read this before doing drugs will be scared into not doing them. This book should be taught in school because it is a real, true-life story and it feels so real when you read it. DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE.I read this book first in 1997, I was an 8th grader. I am now 18 and I still consider it one of my favorite books. This book kept me away from drugs and I am thankful for that. I hope it would do the same for many other people out there.
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Summary: Go Ask Alice, the diary of a messed up teenager
Review: Go Ask Alice is definately a book I would recommend for anyone of any age. Alice is a 14 year old girl who is your average teenager, maybe even more good of a girl. She moves away from her present home and starts at a new school. Every teenager has the urge to fit in at school, but Alice's urge just grows to be too big and she ruins her life. She gets caught in the wrong crowd and begins to drink and she tries drugs. She says she won't ever try the drugs again, but she just gets the urge to try every drug that is out there and she becomes very addicted. Alice tries to stop her addiction but it isn't possible for her. This story will change your whole perspective on drugs. This story could possibly change your whole perspective on life. I can assure you that if you read this book you will love it.
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Summary: "Fantasys Often Faces Reality."
Review: Go Ask Alice is a must read book. I highly recommend it to teenagers and adults. This book is based on a true story about a young teenage girl who sought a life as a young drug user. The Author of this book is anonymous, but many people believed that her real name is not Alice, but is Beatrice Sparks. Well we do not know for sure, all we do know is that the publishers of this book probably received that title from Alice in wonderland, and it is compared to the drugs in the animated movie film. Go Ask Alice is a devastating true story about a young girl's diary which is filled with her emotions, ideas, and thoughts which she shares emotionally through her diary.
We as the readers are able to enter her world and try to live through her experience but, we cannot have that same feeling, or even feel bad for her because we haven't lived the life of this young girl. Alice is described in her diary to be a good- normal teenage girl with "Perfect" parents and a regular boring teenage life. She had good grades, but a low self esteem. She then went through multiple changes of adapting to a new school, a new house, and trying to meet new friends. Alice then becomes more lethargic and hopeless as she searches for her inward self.
Until one year she decides to live with her grand parents for the summer and she meets a few friends who brought her to a party, and drugged her with LSD. Even though she was unaware, she later than found out the truth that they had drugged her by playing a game which was known to be "Button, Button: Who's got the Button?" which they slipped the drug in her coke which is out of a random of 10 out of 14 picks. She later then wrote in her diary how it felt to be drugged and she liked it because she began to feel excepted, and away from peer pressure, and she began to long for other use of drugs. Eventually she got into more drugs such as crack, pot, heroin, and speed. She started to regret it but then she loved it. She met new friends, and became real hard into drugs. She ran-away with a girl named Chris and by herself with other friends two- to- three times, and she had sex with many different guys.
Later in the book it tells you how she began to notice the true meaning of her family as both her grandparents die, and her brother Tim, and sister Alex looks at her with pity, and her parents whose been there for her throughout all her life keeps an eye on her. She tries to live right and to stay away from drugs but as she remembers being a pusher around school and many kids begin to taunt her, and she becomes weaker and she tries to hold on to the people who cares about her such as her father, mother, her brother and sister and boyfriend who is away named Joel. She then one day was tricked into drugs by someone who put acid on a snack that she was eating (peanuts) and she beated herself badly when babysitting an infant and they put her into a mental hospital. She began to try to cooperate and she wished to god, and prayed to come out, and when she left the hospital after meeting a few friends at the asylum decided to no longer keep a diary because she will stay off the drugs.
We are then told in the epilogue that she died three weeks after deciding not to keep a diary. She probably died of overdose of drugs or premeditated overdose but no one actually knows. This is a great book and a reference to anyone who thinks taking drugs is cool, or a good way to "fit in," or to resolve problems. I think, that Go Ask Alice is a tremendously outrageous reality that people who live in a fantasy world of drugs eventually faces reality. Nothing is worsted than trying to re-live your life after living a life of what you thought was amazing, domineering and a wonderful experience that taught you how to live on your own, and which you thought taught you how to fly, and soar throughout the air, and be ecstatic, and without worry. But when you finally face the true untrustly world that holds so many people who are like you and who are far from you, you crash, you die, and you think that you cannot recover for you wished that you had never sought drugs, and you regretted ever taking it.
This wonderful story of a true teenage girl's life teaches a moral which I think is: Fantasies Often Faces Reality and it is of a demonstration and illustration of her life to be expletory to those who read it. Again I will repeat that I HIGLY RECOMMEND you to read it. I am also a teenager and I know not to do drugs but, this book gave me the true answer on why not to do drugs.
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Summary: Go Ask Jenna
Review: Go Ask Alice was one of the best books I have ever read. There were good parts and bad parts but it was all around a well written book. I am very interested in drugs so I found it intriguing. The book kept my attention very well and was never boring. Although, I wish it would have been longer. It was humorous to read how girls wrote back then, very preppy and proper. It was a good writing style and I enjoyed reading it. The way it was written was easy to read but also said a lot. I believe this book was totally rad grandpa.
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Summary: Bre's book review
Review: Go Ask Alice is a diary about a teenager's struggle to overcome her drug addiction. Powerful and realistic, her hardships and problems convince teens that drugs cause an endless ammount of troubles. This book is shockingly realistic and honest, and shows the ups and downs of this girl's life. Her story screams out at you, and makes you feel like you are sitting right next to her throughout the entire diary. Anyone who reads this story will enjoy this book. It is honest and disturbing, and it will give you a different view on life one page at a time.
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Summary: TRuTH of TeeN YeaRS
Review: Now 25, I read this book back in the 80s when I was maybe 11 and then again at 12 and 13. Alice's journey into the darkness has always stayed with me. I am anxious to read it again as an adult. Any teen who feels lost, or any young adolescent will benefit from reading this diary. Hopefully it will encourage you NOT to start a life of drugs and to realize how fortunate your situation is. This book is very realistic in my opinion...sad as it is, drugs do befall many young people, and i always felt this book kept me away a lot longer than had I never read it. It is highly reccomended, and written quite well, for someone in such a blatant predicament.
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Summary: Interesting...
Review: When i heard this book i picked it up because i thought it would give an un-opinionated look at drugs. Not for, Not against. And through alot of it there is actually a vibe of pro-drugs. Although the end gives and obviously anti-drug message. It really deserves a 4.5 but i gave it a 5 because it is very very good and exciting and most of it is not anti-drug. Drugs are commonly just discarded as evil. this book gives another look but not the best one. its good but there are better books out there that present a more realistic POV on drugs.
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Summary: Great book for everyone
Review: First off, this is a great book for anyone to read. I have a few problems with it though. Being a drug rehad therapist, I don't believe this story actually happened. However, the person writting it did a great job.
Second, her name is not Alice. Read the book, she never says that's her name. It is someone else's name.
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Summary: Awsome Book!
Review: This book Go Ask Alice was really great, I enjoyed it very much. At frist it seemed that Alice was afarid to do drugs but then she did drugs to try to fit iin. Alice was trying to make friends by doing drugs. It doesn't work that way, you don't have to do drugs to make friends. I suggest this book to everyone that likes to deal with people's problems.
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Summary: The life of a girl on drugs
Review: The anonymous diary, Go Ask Alice, captures the reality of a girl's struggle to over come a powerful drug addiction. This dramatic novel tracks the obstacles and hardships the main character faces from the beginning of her addiction of her addiction through its tragic two year span. The author's first drug use was accidental; however it turned into a slow process of self destruction. The reader follows the author's issues with her boyfriend, drugs, and struggles to return home. Go Ask Alice shows the corrosion drugs can do to a person, and their family. Since this diary is written in first person, the reader has an up-close look into the life of a druggie, and is impacted by the author's profound diction and word choice. The deep imagery and heartfelt passages connects the reader with the author. Go Ask Alice is a quick read; however, it should be read by a mature audience. I would recommend this book to a young adult who enjoys reading realistic dramas. Some of the language used in the book can be at time very strong and offensive to sensitive eyes. The setting and characters described in the novel are sometimes disturbing. Even though the author writes of her dramatic situation, she still addresses many issues faced by a normal girl.
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