Go Ask Alice

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Summary: Teen's veiw on Alice
Review: I know some people found this book dis-tasteful, But for myself, I strongly disagree. I am A teenager, like Alice in this book. As I read it I was able to relate to so much of what she was saying. This book really showed me what it's like to do drugs, and truthfully, it turned me off of the idea. Alice's life seemed so perfect and normal, untill she started "shooting up". She was hurt mentaly and physicaly. This book was a true eye-opener for me, It has helped me be able to say "no". I recomended it to all of my friends, and They love it too, and now I am recomending it to you.

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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: Go Ask Alice is about a who has just turned fifteen and starts dealing with drgs(legal and illegal), alcohol, and sx. When she goes to her grandparents house, someone from school invites her to a party. At the party, they play a game where everyone takes a bottle of soda, and seven have LSD in them (Alice does not know this). Alice gets one that has the LSD in it. After this time she starts trying all kinds of things. The drgs start to ruin her life. She runs away with her friend, they come home, start doing and selling with their boyfriends, find out that their boyfriends are , run away again, come home, stop drgs, start drgs again, and tons of other stuff because of drgs. Then, her Grandparents die. You'll have to read the book to find out how it ends. This book was totally awesome. It really gets you to feel like you know Alice personally. The book is her diary, and she shares secrets in her diary that she can't share with anyone else.

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Summary: I can't believe this book is still in print!
Review: I read Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, and I did not know what to make of it. Based on one girl¡Çs true real-life account of drug addiction, she has zest for life one minute, and spirals downward in the world of drugs the next minute. While keeping a diary of her life as a runaway, drugdealer, and a drug user while struggling with her families unconditional commitment for her as she deals with her habit. After I read the book, I thought that this could not be based on any one person¡Çs life, maybe different accounts of several persons true experience with drugs, but it seemed very choppy. While reading Go Ask Alice, it became difficult for me to imagine anyone in a drug-induced state or anyone taking harsh drugs would have the time to chronicle it all in a diary. There where also parts of the her diary where instead having the date written, there are question marks in place of dates because she seemed unaware of what day it was. If that were the case, I think she would have misplaced her diary once she becomes engrossed in drugs and becomes homeless in the streets of San Francisco. In my opinion, the book seems to romanticize drug use instead of giving the harsh realities of someone¡Çs real agonizing addiction...

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Summary: I can't believe this book is still in ptint!
Review: I read Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous, and I did not know what to make of it. Based on one girl¡Çs true real-life account of drug addiction, she has zest for life one minute, and spirals downward in the world of drugs the next minute. While keeping a diary of her life as a runaway, drugdealer, and a drug user while struggling with her families unconditional commitment for her as she deals with her habit. After I read the book, I thought that this could not be based on any one person¡Çs life, maybe different accounts of several persons true experience with drugs, but it seemed very choppy. While reading Go Ask Alice, it became difficult for me to imagine anyone in a drug-induced state or anyone taking harsh drugs would have the time to chronicle it all in a diary. There where also parts of the her diary where instead having the date written, there are question marks in place of dates because she seemed unaware of what day it was. If that were the case, I think she would have misplaced her diary once she becomes engrossed in drugs and becomes homeless in the streets of San Francisco. In my opinion, the book seems to romanticize drug use instead of giving the harsh realities of someone¡Çs real agonizing addiction. My advice, read A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich, it's more realistic than this dribble.

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Summary: SiNcE yOu aSkEd JeSsIcA....
Review: This book is a really good book to understand and learn the truth about teens and their drug addictions. The girl in the book is first turned on to drugs at a party playing "Button Button Who's Got Button?" in the "game" one of the girls friends laced 10 out of 14 cokes with LSD the girl described her expeirence as "groovy" and "cool". We live and learn about her addiction through her two diaries that she keeps. In the end you think that she turned her life around after getting out of the insane asylum, but shes got another thing coming. This book is really good I reccomend all young adults and adults to read it to find out what really goes on with teenagers.

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Summary: Use Hemp Rolling Papers instead...
Review: "Go Ask Alice" is lousy rolling paper. It's too heavy a stock, and of course the print is questionable.

It's really hard to get a good joint made from this paper.

And when you smoke it, it's probably the harshest thing to smoke, next to "Six Crises" by Richard M. Nixon.

On the whole, this book is a poor substitute for hemp rolling papers.

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Summary: If you know an "Alice," buy them this book!
Review: This book is an actual diary of a teen's trials and tribulations through peer pressure, drugs, rape, and mental depression. I first came across this book as a street counsellor and started handing out the book to the "Alice's" on the street. Soon, the "Alice's" were coming to me for the book and I had to buy more books. Do not let the "anonymous author" fool you into thinking the story is nothing more than a figment of someone's overactive imagination. The book's ending delivers a powerfully poignant and devastating message of what can and does happen somewhere "in the real world," each and every day.

If you have a teenaged daughter you believe is using drugs, or are a teen, yourself, and have a friend who thinks drugs are "cool," I highly recommnd this book. Since the book revolves around a girl, and her specific problems, girls will probably relate to the book better than most guys. It is a turbulent chronicle that comes straight from the heart of someone who has "been there," and experienced the painful journey. Alice's diary is her legacy to the world. It is an actual account of feelings, emotions, insecurities, shame and remorse, and how Alices problems affect not only her, but her family as well.

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Summary: This Book is So Scary and Interesting
Review: This book was one of the best books I EVER read. I'm 12 and I'm in 6th grade and this book was so spellbinding. Yes this is REALLY supposed to be for HIGH Schoolers and up but anyone who is 12 or over and mature enough SHOULD READ THIS. I am the best reader in my grade. Take my word for it.

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Summary: Do you really believe this is a true diary?
Review: I read Go Ask Alice and I very much enjoyed this book. I liked this book because it was easy to understand what Alice was going through. She described what she, as a 15-year-old drug user, thought about drugs. The main question I have after reading this is "is it really a true diary or did someone just make this book up?"

I really enjoy journal type of books so this was a good book when I first started to read it. Alice lived in the same house in the same small town for her whole life until her dad was given a job promotion to another city. The whole family had to move. Alice found this difficult to move to where she knows no one and has to start her whole life over. Alice was worried about going to school for the first few days. Alice had no one to talk to and no one talked to her until some people of the wrong crowd decided to make her their friends. The wrong crowd people did drugs and tricked Alice in to trying them. The first time she had drugs she was hooked she loved them and wanted to try every type of drug there was. She spent all of her time searching for drugs and the more she took the harder it was to stop. Alice was way too far into the world of drugs for her to ever stop. Her whole life revolved around drugs. She was desperate for them. The drugs gave her an escape from the reality of her own life and the expectations that she couldn't live up to. She wrote every thing in her diary. Some of her entries had no dates, which made sense because she was too high and confused to know where she even was. Alice goes through being homeless, raped and mentally abused and has to deal with the deaths of her grandparents all at the same time. She even has to go to an institution. She gave full details of these events and what she thought about them. It made me feel as if I was with her the whole way through. She describes the setting in a unique yet interesting short way, "We are in San Francisco, in a dirty smelling and stifling one room apartment." Wit that you start getting an idea and then she gives you the whole picture and makes you feel it, "Everything always feels clammy and damp here. There is even a green type of fungus mold growing in the closet..." she doesn't tell you too much, but at the same time I can still feel as though I'm right there.

This diary gave a lot of information almost too much that it makes you doubt if it is real or not. It just passes my mind how some one can remember everything that happened when they were really high on drugs but not know the day of the week. When Alice was in the hospital before she went to the institution she wrote how badly injured she was with bandages all over her hands and how she was so weak and couldn't move. My question is how can she write in her diary when she is so weak and has huge bandages on her hands. Alice's friend ships don't seam to mean that much to her. She has a best -friend named Chris who's her partner in crime and goes through many good and bad experiences with her. Yet, when the "bad" druggies were harassing her because she's trying to stay straight, all she can say is "Chris is lucky, she moved to a new place where no one knew her." I just don't understand how she can weep over a friend who went away to summer camp and just push aside the fact that she just had her best friend move away and she is left to deal with being harassed by her self. I really enjoyed this book/diary and it meant a lot to me when I finished it but I really doubt that it is a true diary of a 15-year-old girl. I did the research I'm not the only one who doesn't believe this is true actually the other people helped me realize that this could be and most likely is a fake diary. I recommend this book to some one who is interested in a story of a not too realistic 15-year-old girl and I think anyone who thinks this is real should maybe reread the book.

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Summary: Heartbreaking Diary of a Teenager Lost in the World of Drugs
Review: I could not put this book down! The chilling account of her rapid descent from a normal teenage girl with a low self-esteem into a self-loathing and desperate drug addict. Even though she continuously struggles to bring herself out of the "gutter," there are other factors at work that prevent her from becoming the person she so truly desires. Regardless of whether her story is factual, the book presents a very real look into a life of drug use and the detestable people that anyone in a similar situation will inevitably encounter.