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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: This book was very good because it tells you that being a drug user can cause problems with you and the people around you. Alice uses drugs to relieve herself from the stress and her loneliness. This book shows the consequences drugs can bring and why they are harmful.This book is good to read because it makes you want to know what might happen to her. I recomend this book to anyone that wants to use drugs or is going on the wrong track. Go aks Alice is the best book I've ever read, it shows reality and the life of a drug user.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This book has got to be on of my favorites. It had everything any great book has. This book is about a girl who quickly gets drawn into the world of drugs and the consequences that come from it. The book makes twists and turns throughout the plot and makes you want to keep reading to see how this girl turns out. The end is unexpected and pulls the whole book together. This is by far one of the better books i've read.
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Summary: I paid attention
Review: This was the first book I ever got in trouble over, decades ago. My mother found it with my schoolbooks and opened it to a particularly nasty passage. This was way before you could see sex and violence on any TV station, and hear obscenities in every movie. Mom was shocked by what she glimpsed. I was instructed to return "Go Ask Alice" to the library at once.Of course I didn't. As a classic junior highschooler, I considered my parents my intellectual inferiors and in no position to tell me what to read. In this case, I was right about insisting on reading "Alice." What my mother didn't realize was that the degradation and sadness of the narrator shocked me, too, enough to make me see how lucky I was. At the time the book came out, the "drug culture" still had the gloss of hipness, of counterculture freedom. Music, clothes, slang, art, movies--they were all heavily influenced by psychedelia for a time. Books like "Go Ask Alice" and movies like "The People Next Door" showed a different side to the drug myths. They didn't suggest we should all be home training for life as the Cleavers. They just gave us a jolt of reality.
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Summary: Lisa and Jenna's Review
Review: This is a great book about a real life story. It tells what teenagers go through with drugs, sex, and scandles. I recomend this book for people who want the truth. This book sould be in every Library. Please just get this book to find out the truth about this real girls Diary!
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Summary: A Real Diary... A Real Journey
Review: This book was absolutely amazing. To think that such a young girl, who was around my own age, experienced such pain and such a long journey of life is almost unfathomable. This young woman experienced so much in such a short span and until the end struggles to over come it. Anyone can respect her strength for that. I saw her as a hypocrite but the times of effort and strength made me fall in love and identify with her. Also, the the parents devotion amazed me and I was taken by surprise with this book. Everyone should read this, just to enjoy a good struggle or to gain perspective on their problems whether they be acid, pot, heroin, sex or just something mundane as everyday life.
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Summary: A Lesson on Compassion
Review: When I read several reviews of this book, I am somewhat perplexed on how these reviewers take this piece and simply call it a story on the dangers of drugs; Doing such is like saying Native Son is a story on the dangers of crime. Perhaps the frightening story of Alice not only serves as a deterrent for substance abuse, but consequently exposes the guilt that society must burden with the thousands of teenagers who are destined suffer the same fate of Alice. It is easy to point out the pivotal mistakes that Alice made along her journey of self destruction, however it is not as easy to admit that the society that bore her and raised her is equally responsible for the grim outcome. Perhaps it is not an issue of whether drug use is detrimental, perhaps it is the question of how society tolerates such use and how we, as members of this society, shun away any personal guilt by attributing it to the victim alone. To avoid such moral responsibility is repugnant and lamentable. One must examine Alice's reasons for her drug use much like one would examine Bigger's reasons for killing Mary in Native Son. Although this book offers no solution, it will make you re-examine how much we influence each other and if we are responsible for those we influence. Ultimately, Go Ask Alice asks more questions that it answers, the most important question is one of moral responsibility- are we as responsible for Alice's actions as much as she is?
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Summary: Incredibly Moving and Powerful
Review: Much like the film Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000) should be shown in every high school across the country, Go Ask Alice should be required reading for every junior high student. Targeted more toward a female audience, I don't think young men won't get the powerful message conveyed in this simply written diary just as well. The main character starts off as a 15-year-old girl full of angst and adolescent woes. She's not as thin as she would like to be, not as popular as she would like to be and doesn't really have any friends. Her self-esteem lies at the bottom of a canyon. When her father gets a new job and the family has to move, she sees it as a new start. Her self-esteem shoots to a mountain top. But... she doesn't make any friends right away, so her self-esteem plummets. This roller-coaster motion sets the pattern for the rest of the novel. Then drugs are introduced into the story and this antagonist makes the story more all the more brutal. The events that take place are shocking and the diary format makes them more personal. The fact that it's a real diary, a true story, makes it even more poignant. You are right there with her, pulled along for all the twists and turns, ups and downs. I couldn't have been more surprised with this book. First published in 1971, some of the terms may seem dated but it was more endearing than anything else. The people she meets/interacts with are written about simply but have a powerful and lasting effect. I'm not ashamed to admit I cried at a couple parts. I was swept up into story and in the end, I was left feeling dizzy. It was amazing! amazing! amazing!
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Summary: Really good,but really sad.............
Review: I read this book recently and it was one of the best books that I have EVER read. As soon as I started reading it I couldn't put it down. It isn't a very long book,but it is a very good one. It really helps you understand why people use drugs,and how they become so addicting. I loved this book,but at the end it left me feeling very very sad. I lost one of my very close friends to a drug overdose when we were just 16 years old,so naturally the end of this book was heartbreaking. This will open your eyes to the world of drugs. Read it!!
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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: This book is the best book I have every read. Its great but the only problem is that its a very sad book. But other than that its the best book. I loved it. Its a real diary about a girl who gets involved with drugs. It takes you into the adventure of her tragic life. Its a great great great great great book. I love it. I would recomend it to any one. I think teens around the ages of 13-18 should read it. Once you read it you won't ever forget about Alice and her wonderful story that she has to share.
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Summary: It scared me.....
Review: I am 16 and I recently read this book for a school project. When I began to read it I could relate to alice and then I sae the horrible change that out of no where happened. I think that the main purpose that beatrice sparks wrote all of the teen diarys that she did was to scare teens out of sex or drugs or eating disorders. I was truly amazed at the inside world of drugs. You can call me naive but I had no clue. It really help show me why I should become heavily involved in drugs. However I do not think it is right that It was said to be written by anonymous. It isn't right to lie about something like that. The details seemed so intricte and so specific that I couldn't believe it wasn't written by a real "Alice". I highly recomend this book and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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