Go Ask Alice

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Summary: Go ask Alice
Review: This book is about a unnamed girl, who they call Alice.She keeps a diary and it talks about her life, everything that she had experience during her adolescence. She talks about her experiments with boys, drugs, and losing her virginity. Alice is a troubled girl who deals with her weight gain, her parents, and school. Alice' dad had taken a teaching job at another college, and Alice's family had to move to a new town. She made friends with her neighbor Beth, and during summer she went to a summer camp. Alice was forced to move into her Grandparents house. She didn't like living there at first because she didn't have any friends, but one day she had saw an old friend, Jill who had invited her to a party. It was then that Alice had her first drug experience, and from then on she kept doing them. Alice lost her virginity to a boy named Roger, she thought she had gotten pregnant from it. She later meets a girl name Chris, who she runs away with and starts her new life. They lived in an apartment and had jobs, but Alice missed her family and she went back home. Alice falls in love with a boy names Joel, and she opens up to him.
The only thing that I could find wrong the book was the ending. The ending of the book leaves you hanging. It talks about how her life has changed for the better. It seems like the ending is going to lead up to her death or some big thing, but instead it was a slow change to her deciding not to write in it any more. The entire book was amazing and I couldn't wait to get to the end, but when I did it was a little disappointing.
One good thing about the book was how interesting it was. The way they tell her story really makes you feel for her. When she takes the drugs I found myself saying what are you thinking. The book seemed real and I could relate to it well.

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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: Go Ask Alice has to be one of the most captivating books I have ever read. I happened to pick it up one afternoon and finished it that very same night-I just couldn't put it down! Go Ask Alice is a frightening example of a teenager's struggle with drugs, sex, and alcohol, and how she attempts to overcome them. However, it's somewhat hard to believe that an adolescent of "Alice's" age could be so oblivious to the repercussions of her actions. Despite the main character's unrealistic lack of knowledge about the events that take place in her life, I think this is a fantastic read for teenagers and adults alike.

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Summary: This is not a true story
Review: This is a work of fiction by a woman hell-bent on keeping teenagers from having sex, doing drugs, and worshipping Satan. I read it when I was in middle school (10 years ago) because I was a precocious child fascinated by sleazy books about sex and drugs and this is pretty much the only reason anyone should read this book. It's badly written, incredibly unbelievable, and seriously misinformed but kind of entertaining. I am horrified that anyone believes this to be non-fiction and that it is marketed as such.

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Summary: Powerfully Moving
Review: I absolutely feel in love with this book. A teacher in high school noticed I was heading down the wrong road quickly. She handed me the book and told me to read it. I was skeptical at first but eventually gave in and read it. I can honestly say it saved my life. I now serve proudly in the US Navy. I still to this day read the book at least once a month and every time I cry.

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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: Go Ask Alice is a great book about a teenager who has an addiction to drugs. Alice gets stuck in such an addiction that it leads to her emotional downfall and death. Through her journey with drugs, Alice encounters many other obstacles such as peer pressure, dealing and selling drugs (and using them), partying, becoming sexually active, and becoming homeless. It takes Alice a long time to realize how much she is hurting herself and she attempts, painfully, to quit her addiction. I really can't tell you much more with out giving the best parts away, but I recommend this book to all teenagers and adults alike!

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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: A taste of reality is what you'll get once yove read Go Ask Alice the intriguing real dieary of the not so ordinary life of Alice. This book will put you in the shoes of someone who has suffered, learned, and gotten throught difficulties that changed her life and might just as well change your outlook on drugs. Reading of how one teenage girls life gets flipped upside down just because a classmate slips her some LSD through a drink at a not so innocent party,will leave some readers in shock of what happens to Alice, while others can relate to what Alice goes through. Alice deals with so many ups and downs in her life youll never know what the outcome of her next decision will be. Just reading about the crazy life of this girl makes you feel as if you've been through it yourself. This captivating diary makes you wake up to reality and realize what can happen to you when you take just the slightest amount of drugs. Turning an ordinary innocent girl into a drug addict. And just when you think Alice has gotten over her addiction to drugs her life takes another big turn making her end up in positions no one would ever want to experience.

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Summary: Great For Teenagers
Review: I really liked this book, and would recommend it to almost anyone who likes reading true stories! This is also great for teenagers to learn about the real world and what could happen to them! I liked everythingThis real-life diary charts an anonymous teenage girl's struggle with the world of drugs! This is honestly a book that an everyday person should read! I hope that you recommend this book to everyone you know as well as I do! Thanks for reading my review!

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Summary: Definately for teen readers
Review: This is definately a teen read - cover to cover in one day. A little hard to follow in some places - continuity a bit vague - but overall a great read considering these are the diary entries of a drug addict. Opens your eyes to one girls struggles with drug addiction and isolation from the "straight" world. What these young girls will do for drugs is really frightening. Perhaps more parents should recommend something like this for teenagers who are teetering on the drug use age....

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Summary: An Anonymous Author has no integrity
Review: My local newspaper has a policy for submitting anonymous letters to the editor:"We do not publish anonymous letters".As far as I know Charles Manson could have authored "Go Ask Alice" and lied about every bit of it.A more reputable book for learning about the effects of LSD is "LSD Psychotherapy" by Stanislav Grof,M.D. Another good one is "Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts" by Lynn Zimmer,Ph.D and John P.Morgan,M.D. To find out "true" stories about how drugs effect most people see "Saying Yes" by Jacob Sullum."Go Ask Alice"is pure fiction.You may find it entertaining and it makes a good movie,but it is not a true story.To claim that is is unethical.

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Summary: Great Novel
Review: Despite some very intense scenes that had me cringing, Go Ask Alice was a fabulous non-fiction book. It is the story of a teenage girl that falls into the drug crowd at school at the delicate age of 15, and her life starts descending from there.
'Anonymous', the supposed author of the diary, documented her life very specifically and detailed. Alice, the teenager, authored a great diary. It all starts when one day she "accidentally" consumes some LSD in the Coca-Cola at a party she attended. It all goes down from there. She runs away, tries to be adult, and then falls back to the comfort of her own home. She experiences intense highs and horrible lows, one minute going to "I love life" attitude, to the next, wanting to die. Go Ask Alice made, I think, the biggest impact on me than any book has ever made. It is an excruciating story on what drugs really do to you. I wasn't planning on experimenting with drugs before I read this book, but the book definitely sealed the deal. It was horrible reading about some child, who basically ruined her life because she turned it over to drugs. She had the choice of quitting, and she did; well, she at least tried. Once you fall into the crowd, there is no coming out. After Alice came back, she tried to stay clean, but the 'druggies' would not leave her alone. Wherever she turned they threatened to give acid to her sister in the form of candy, or plant marijuana in her dads car. There is no doubt that I would recommend this book to everybody else. In my opinion, the book should be required reading in eighth or ninth grade, because that is when it matters whom you start to hang out with and whom you start to play around with. I have read other books about teens falling into drug abuse, and messing up their life, but this one was the most tragic. In various books, the story is intense and goes into great detail about the 'drug life', but everyone at the closing ends up happy, drug-free and alive. This didn't; a horrible thing happened to Alice three weeks after she stopped writing in her diary. This was real, despite people thinking that somebody wrote the book, and not thinking that it was an actual diary. If somebody did not go through this, then they must have an intensely vivid imagination, because this was real. Go Ask Alice had me feeling like I was actually there, watching her go through the hell she was going through, watching her go through the struggle and pain in her low ends, yet also the laughter and joy in her high ends. Once you start reading you don't want to stop. I like to read, don't get me wrong, but some books that are recommended, or are required to read, are just plain boring. Go Ask Alice was recommended to me by my eighth grade language arts teacher, and many friends, and I am glad that it was. It is almost addicting, you want the pages to go faster and you are able to read them quicker. For example, one scene that had me feeling for her, and pulled me into the book, was when she innocently went to go baby-sit, but the next morning ended up in a mental hospital. Somebody had planted acid on chocolate-covered peanuts that she had eaten, and they made her go crazy. This was the most intense scene in the book, and one that made me realize just how bad it is to start drugs, and just how horrible it is to have your life cut short because of them. Despite some very intense scenes that had me cringing, Go Ask Alice was a fabulous non-fiction book. It is the story of a teenage girl that falls into the drug crowd at school at the delicate age of 15, and her life starts descending from there.