Go Ask Alice

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Summary: A real life changer
Review: I read this book this year, I'm 12. It reminded me of some of my friends and I realized that I needed to find a new group of friends, because they're lost too and they are NOT seeking help. I didn't want to end up like "Alice" did. This is a poignant story about a girl who is entering into the scary world of drugs. She goes from extreme highs to extreme lows and feels depressed. She runs away form home and becomes a dealer. It's true: Alice Could be anyone. Alice could be someone you know. Alice uses drugs. Because I think I know Alice.

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Summary: A Wake Up Call
Review: This is one of those books I have read ten times, my paperback nearly warn out. When I was younger, I knew that people did drugs, but I never knew they were close to me. Reading this book made me a little more open to those "freaks" and "weirdos" that did drugs, made me understand that they weren't all horrific people out to kill me. It's just a story about the simple choices we make, and how one small mistake can flip your entire life upside down.

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Summary: Go Ask Me
Review: I highly recomend this novel Go Ask Alice to anyone who has ever had any questions about drugs, and their effects, mainly negative. It shows you the good at first, but outragiously not even worth it, consicuences of them. Also, this is a great book for those old hippies, such as I, just to reminis about the old times. Great fast read, i recomend all you parents to buy this book for your teenagers, to show them what drugs are REALLY like, and not just a temporary good feeling.

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Summary: ...
Review: I remember my friends reading this in high school and insisting that I had to as well. My initial thoughts were that it was a little strange how this girl could be so strung out on drugs but kept on faithfully recording everything in her diary. My next thought was that there probably wasn't an Alice and that a grown up had written it in order to scare young girls away from drugs. Well, now I've found out that my instincts were right. The preachy tone of this book just reminds me of driver's ed videos and those cheesy anti-marijuana pictures in the seventies. Wanting to let kids know about the dangers of drugs is an honorable mission, but to do it in such a manipulative way is really inexcusable.

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Summary: WAKE UP!! THIS IS A TOTAL FAKE! THERE WAS NO ALICE!!!!!
Review: I cannot get over all the kids out there who actually believe this garbage is TRUE! It's NOT! It was written by a middle aged woman named Dr. Beatrice Sparks.
There was never any Alice, and these are the facts.
Don't believe it?
Go to the library, ask for the book, the librarian will take you straight to the FICTION section and get it.
As a former librarian I can tell you that ALL librarians know the secret that IT IS NOT ANYONE'S DIARY!
What it is, is a con job on the teenagers of the world and nothing else. DON'T BUY IT!

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Summary: Best of teen angst books!
Review: GO ASK ALICE is a really amazing novel. I have read the book before a while ago, and now I'm reading it again with one of my senior English classes. This novel is actually a diary based on the real-life story of an anonymous 15-year-old drug user. Alice seems pure and innocent in the beginning of the novel, but once you start getting into it she becomes addicted to drugs and they change her life forever for the worst. Of course, Alice isn't her real name. In fact, the editors of the novel changed all of the characters' names, dates, places, and some events to keep the privacy and respect of this girl's real-life family and friends. It's stunning and the writing is incredible. The novel shows her pain and what she is going through while high and on drugs. I highly recommend this novel to all teens and their parents. I don't really recommend this book to children, because it could get a little tense for them and maybe too difficult to read and understand. But this novel is great for ages 11 and up. A must read novel!

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Summary: WAKE UP! THIS (IS NOT REAL)!!
Review: I worked in the library system for years and I can tell you what all the libriarians KNOW FOR A FACT!
This book is NOT an acutal diary, it was written by a middle-aged woman named Dr. Beatrice Sparks. There was no Alice.
If you don't believe me, just go to your library and ask the librarian for the book, she'll take you straight to the FICTION section. HELLO!!!!!!
This book is silly (...)! Don't believe it. It's laughable.

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Summary: Go Ask Alice A Winner!
Review: I'm 13 years old and I checked Go Ask Alice out of my school library. It is by far the best book I have ever read! It has significant details and is very illistrated on the struggles of a young teen who unfortunantly didn't make it. I haven't been offered drugs yet, but I probably will one of these days. Reading this book has helped to convince me even more not to try drugs because they can really mess with your mind and are really very dangerous. I think drug awareness is really very important to teens, especially young teens my age, I thank "Anonymous" for writing "Go Ask Alice", whether Anonymous is the poor, unfortunate girl who wrote the diary or the person who discovered the diary and converted it to a book to share with everyone. Who ever Anonymous may be, I thank you on showing me the views of a teen much like myself. If there is anyone reading this review that hasn't read Go Ask Alice yet, you really should read it. It can really touch you!

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Summary: Great Book
Review: Go Ask Alice was a book on about girl's life through a diary she wrote over 2 years. She told us about drugs and family trouble and how she went about with her friends. I think this book is good because the girl decribes her life in good detail and her story is one that many teens end up living. I recommend this book to all people above 14.

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Summary: Decision Making
Review: This book really spoke out to me. Being 14 and reading this book that totally relates to kids my age really overcame my fear of turning out like this girl did. She made the wrong kind of decisions in her life which prepares me what not to do what this girl of my age did. I very much encourage all teens from 12 and up to read this book. So that they can start having to do the decision making for themselves and decided which trail in life they're going to go through!