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Summary: It does what it needs to do
Review: This is not a book for people to get some brain expansive vocabulary like one would recieve from an epic poem, nor is it ment to be criticed as to it's authenticity. It is intended to help young people both relate and be warned of what can and does happen. For that I give it five stars. I do not give it five stars because I believe that it is solely the writing of a young girl, nor because I believe it will increase anyones SAT scores. Instead, I give it five stars because I believe it does what it was intended to do.
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Summary: 16 year old reader in Colorado
Review: I was just looking for a book to read, and ever sense i could remember i always read higher books than my age group books. but at random happenings i passed by the younge adult and looked at this book and decided to give it a try. I'll never regret that i did that. Go Ask Alice is one of the best books that I have picked up recently. If one have ever tried drugs or ever even thought about it, then this book is a good book to read and easily related to if you've gotten that far in to drugs. I started this book at 4pm on monday, and didnt not finish till 10 pm that same day. One feels her joys, pains and regrets. So thats just my thought on this book, but if your like me with reading, dont pass this one up
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Summary: I am far too sleepy to write a good review......
Review: I really loved this book and I think it did seem like a teenage girl's diary during the '60s. You can gather its basic plot from one of the other 600+ reviews- basically it tells how a naive, unsuspecting girl was unwittingly introduced to LSD at a party and her life afterwards as an addict- plus a killer ending. Her personality did NOT seem to change (to me) throughout the book- in fact, one of the hardest things to come to grips with is that even people who start like Alice have the potential for the best and the worst inside of them from the beginnging, and thus everything she did seemed believable. The great thing is that the reader feels as though he/she is going through everything "Alice" goes through, and one can feel her pain as she tries to recover from the hell inside her. In fact, this book has all the classic elements of tragedy- a hero who has a tragic flaw and makes one bad decision after another based on this flaw until it leads to a tragic end- possibly death; in doing so it makes the audience feel empathy for the hero and fear that the same thing could happen to them. This book's girl has a flaw many people I know are familiar with-her insecurity with and hatred for herself. The target audience of this book is also probably familiar with this flaw... This book does what it set out to do- to tell people, especially the most at-risk ones, what drugs- and other people- are capable of. Parents would also benefit from reading this- Alice almost broke down and told her parents what was going on, but when they talked to her THEY did all the talking. They naively encouraged her to make friends with those "nice" girls who were actually pushing drugs. And yet at the same time they were always there for Alice when she had reached the end of her rope and wanted to come home again. My mother would probably not have let me read this book if she knew I had it, and that would be a bad decision on her part. We need to accept that these things are going on somewhere (here) and that we can only do something about them once we know this. At least give this book a chance. It's not very expensive, it's not very long, and it could make a difference to someone. The thousands who have died will have died in vain if they can't keep one of the rest of us from dying with their stories.
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Summary: *Go ask Alice*
Review: First I was looking at a book on teen related issues. By the name of "Annie's Baby" Right next to that book was recommended "Go Ask Alice." I checked it out so I could see what that book was about. I first read the book "Annie's baby" which turned out to be a very good book. After reading the book I turned to read the book "Go Ask Alice."
This book was about a teenage girl who is leaving a life where pressure is put on to her way too much by her parents who live life in a perfect world. She although has pressure she resist temptation from her drug user friends who are also putting pressure onto her so that she will loosen up and join "the crowd." Although trying to stay afar from the drugs her "friends" add in a little of the drug into her drink. She then gets hooked on the drugs and cannot stop herself from her living nightmare.
I enjoyed this book because it shows the realistic affects of teenage users of drugs even though it happened accidentally. When Anonymous ours her passion and deep inner thoughts into her diary, she shows how tough it is to face friends and family all at one.
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Summary: 5 Stars For Alice
Review: Go Ask Alice is about a girl who had a problem. She keeps a diary about her life that informs you about what is going on. She sinks in and out of depression so much, that she uses different drugs to go through daily life. She runs away, and every time when she comes back she says she is not going to go back on drugs, but she ends up using drugs and running away again. She has many friends that can give her drugs illegally, and that sells drugs, which is also called "pushing". She even sank so low into "pushing" drugs to a nine-year-old ...
The main character of the book is a girl. This book doesn't state her name because they want it to be kept anonymous. This girl seems troubled in her life because she is easily angered, and with every little thing she wants to run away or get high on drugs. She takes the things that happen in her life much to seriously. She thinks that when one thing that is bad happens, it's the end of the world, and she takes drugs for it. She got hooked on all different type of drugs, and it seems like it made her better, why in fact it made her much worse. Not only was it not healthy for her, but it caused her death later on in the book.
I liked this book because it seems like it was very real. It described a teenage life very well. It described her life with ups and downs, making it seem as if really with good and bad times. She didn't like her family, her grandparents died, she got stood up on a date. Also during her lifetime she felt she was too fat, when she weighed just 115 pounds. It was real teen issues that were being said, and most of us face one or the other during a lifetime. Unfortunately, this girl in the book faced all of them... I felt this book was really good. It informs you, and at the same time tells you mistakes others did, making you feel that you will not want to make the same mistake.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This book truly touched me. In the beginning it is rather slow, but don't put the book down! Stay with it!...This book truly taught me and introduced me to the world of drugs and the sadness behind this. PARENTS: give this to your matured teenager to read. This book is truly touching and amazing. I was hooked on it and I read it ll in one day fo morning until night nonstop. I will never forget this book and what I learned about it. GOOD LUCK! :)
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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: I think this book is good for any young girl that is trying to find her way through life, and not go down the wrong road. This book will help you understand where drugs take you in life. No where.
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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: This book is about a 15 year old girl who gets involved with drugs and she leaves her house to use more drugs. Then she comes back home but she leaves again and well she kind of tries to quit but she can't beacause she is addicted.I rate this book a 4 star because I think it tells you a lot of bad things that happen to you when you get invloved with drugs.
Another thing is that I really recommend this book because it is a really good book even though the end is sad. Well, if you want to know more about this book read it and you will find out!
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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: Go Ask Alice is a book about a 15 year old girl and how her life is when she uses drugs. She first started drugs when she was invited to a party. Alice wanted to fit in and be with the popular kids so she began to take drugs. The drugs made her felt great. There's a part in the story how she ran away from home and lived on the streets. She didn't have any food and she was sick. She didn't care if she was sick or anything. The only thing she is worried about is not having enough drugs. I recommend this book to parents and teenagers because it might help them to look at their child's perspectives and thoughts.
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Summary: An Adult Reader's Review
Review: Presumably the diary of a teenage drug addict, GO ASK ALICE was first published when I was in junior highschool. It was widely distributed at my school, and the faculty urged the students to read it for an accurate portrait of the horrors of drug use--and read it I did. At the time I was very, very impressed by the book. But that was almost thirty years ago. Today I am 40 years old, and I am a much more critical reader than I was when I was 12. And my thoughts upon rereading this book are quite different than they were when I first came to it. The obvious issue here is whether or not the book is what it purports to be. Upon re-reading it, I find myself willing to believe that GO ASK ALICE is indeed the diary of a teenage drug user--but I also think it has been heavily re-written in spots to intensify its anti-drug agenda. I base this observation on two points. First, whenever the book describes drugs or their effects, it suddenly changes tone and becomes very, very specific in a way that the other entries are not. Secondly, the descriptions it offers re the effects of certain drugs are exactly those you would expect of a non-drug-user writing with reference to studies available in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This does not change the fact that this is a good book for young teenagers to read. The literary merit is zero--but that is not the point; the point is, as it always was, that casual drug use is simply not a good idea, and it places you in a situation where one thing can easily lead to another without the user being aware of the drift or having concious control. But it is also a book that needs to be read with responsible adult imput, for some of its content may need qualification. Ultimately, although dated and perhaps not quite as honest as it at first glance seems, it remains a powerful tool in any parent's anti-drug arsenal.
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