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Summary: I had a catastrophic reaction while reading this
Review: This novel is excellent...I couldn't put it down. In fact, I finished it in one reading. It is filled with suspense, and very specific and intimate details of a girl who is addicted to drugs. I tell you that you will not regret reading this. If anything, you will have an emotional response to it.
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Summary: Excellent Read But Not Quite True To Life
Review: I had a friend in 6th grade who was reading this book one afternoon. She told me what the book was about and that it was pretty good.. so I searched for years to find it.. but all I could remember about it was.. the name "Alice" when I stumbled upon this book by accident here at Amazon. Well.. I bought the book and read it in just a few hours.. It made excellent reading material but she seemed almost too naive to be realistic. It was also hard for me to believe that Rich (a drug pusher) after she had turned him in to the police would just back off like he did.. The only repercussion of her actions were through school... But all and all this was a good find and is a wonderful book.
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Summary: Alice takes you through her Wonderland
Review: I was given a recomendation of this book by one of my closest friends in seventh grade. I read it in 4 hours. This book is definatly a page turner. It takes you through the life of a young girl who grew up too fast. Her life was overpowered by a drug addiction, plastic friends, and the many other things a teenage girl might struggle through. Her experences were taken to heart, and her thoughts were pondered by my own mind. Alice is a character you will never forget.
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Summary: Go ask ALICE
Review: Go Ask Alice is a exciting book. The story is about a teenage girl who is secretly sliped some acid at a party. This event slowly leads her into hardcore drugs. She likes her first experience so much that she continues to experiment with other different drugs and ends up being addicted and in many situations that threaten her physical and mental well being. I saw the terrible experience of using drugs through the young girl's detailed diary entries. At some times these situations seem cool and at other times these situations seem horrible. Over all, I liked the book. I actually liked it alot except for the ending.The whole book was so real and hard to not want to keep reading onto the following page to see what is coming next. The book made me think. This book changes my curiosity about drugs, because it is very realistic and not over or under exaggerated. I'd recommend this book to any teens interested in what a life on drugs is like, or to anyone else that is interested in reading a dramatic real life story that would show him or her what it is really like being addicted to drugs and how you can't just "quit".
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Summary: Helping Parents and Teens Talk About Sex and Drugs
Review: As a Health and Special Education teacher, I have read many novels written for teens. In my opinion, this book is one of the most helpful about what many teens experience in their lives. In my health classes, especially, I deal with sex, drug, alcohol, and tobacco education. This book deals with these subjects from the point of view of a real teen living a real life. Even though the diary comes from an era preceding even mine, the subject matter is real, the characters are, of course, beleivable, and have to face many issues that teens face today. Although certain drugs and AIDS and other STD's were not prevalent or even existant in this era, the dangers were very much the same. I have read portions of this book aloud to my students, but leave out certain words and only describe certain situations due to the bad language and often perverse situations that are presented so candidly. I feel that if a junior high student is presented with this material, it must be with the permission, or at least knowledge, of a parent. However, I feel strongly that most students, if they read this book as a young teen, as I did, would change many of their furture life choices, as well as change some present actions. It is also very different than having a thirty-something year old teacher tell them what can happen. As a Christian, I feel that portions of this book are difficult, to say the least. Still, I beleive this book will touch even the hardest of teen hearts and teach the more sheltered a lesson in understanding their wayward peers. I have told my students' parents that they should read this book while their teen is reading it, not aloud or over the other's shoulder, but discuss it with the same-sex parent after each one has finished a section or chapter. The difficulties a parent must surpass to do this are well worth the effort and sometimes the pain and tears. I think that my sons, alhtough only eight and five right now, are worth that. If my husband feels uncomfortable, I would be willing to take on the challenge myself. I believe you will, too. If you are unsure, read the book alone first, then allow your child to read it. Most school and public libraries have this book available, if not openly, then with the permission of a parent. Many places have banned this book due to its content, so finding a copy in a very conservative area may be difficult. Also, with a soft-cover edition being so inexpensive online with amazon.com, it is well worth the investment to have as other children, and even grandchildren, come along. I cannot reccommend this book highly enough to anyone with a teen or preteen in their home or thier life. It could do wonders to change a relationship that is already changing day-to-day and often very difficult. When your teen thinks you might understand them after reading the book, their discussions with you may become much deeper and more frank than just "bringing up the subject." It has always worked this way as an icebreaker in my classroom before the sex-ed part begins - and I teach abstinance right from the beginning with other options as well. Afterwards, my students knew that they could trust me and confide in me. It could do the same thing on a larger scale in your family. God Bless You if you choose to do this. It is well worth the effort. Lanette Ferrell, Completing Graduate work in Education & Psycholgy at Abilene Christian University
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Summary: LollyBee
Review: Are they still trying to pass this off as "true to life?" I read it when I was in high school in the late 70s, and even then I thought it was pretty obviously "edited," at the least. Now my 14-year old daughter has heard about it, and I'm torn between encouraging her to believe it in hopes it will scare her away from the (supposedly) prevalent drug scene and trying to be honest with her and telling her it's a pile of ridiculously artificial nonsense with a vaguely important message behind all the overblown preachiness. OTOH, she's an avid reader and at least as intelligent as I was, so she'll probably figure it out for herself. I think I'll try to find it at the library rather than shelling out good money for it, however.
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Summary: Go Ask Alice Review
Review: Go Ask Alice was an amazing story about one girl's life on drugs and on the run. Deeply moving, this story represents the everyday struggles of a user who launches herself farther and farther into the life of drugs and prostitution. Seeing the horrors that the drugs have done to her and her life, basically making her another person, she attempts to make herself 'clean'. In the end, her addiction destroyes her entirely. I loved this book. Real or not, it was a truly gripping story showing what the horror of drugs do to a child's innocence. Keep a box of tissues nearby!
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Summary: Terrible book
Review: This book should not be read a factual history of one teenager's personal experience with drugs and a runaway lifestyle, as it presented. It is a fictional account written by an adult who imagines what Alice's life must be like. Yes some parts may be believable, but most passages seem too shallow and stereotypical to be real. It is badly written and overly preachy. I was at many of the geographical locations mentioned by Alice during the time of her supposed travels. Most of the specific places she describes are fictional and never existed. If you want books with real teen experience go find the books of S. E. Hinton. I would not purchase this book for teens. To recommend this book would be a diservice to intelligent young adults.
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Summary: true story or fiction...the big question
Review: Literature for children should help "protect them fromthe knowledge that they live in a world of death, violence and wounds"... at least that is according to C.S. Lewis. If you believe that, then you just may be the king or queen from Narnia; you certainly don't live in, or have much knowledge of today's literature for children and teens.The diary of a young girl who unsuspectingly is introducted to LSD says "It was glorious", but we later hear her say, "the garbage that goes with drugs makes the price too god-dammed high for anyone to pay." Those two quotations helps us understand and reveal an adolescent's struggle toward maturity. The content of the book is unpleasant, the language can be crude and the experiences horrifying, yet because of that this is a must read for teenagers and their parents. The book offers no solutions. When this book was published in 1971 (according to the Statistical Abstract of the US) there were 38000 rapes, 16000 murders, 2505 deaths from drug overdoses. In 1997 rapes more than doubled to 97500, murders increased to 21600 and accidential deaths from overdosage skyrocketed to 13923. These aspects are around our homes and children. J.R.R. Tolkien once stated, "It does not pay to leave a dragon out of your claculations if you live near him." Our lives are filled with dragons, so we better be prepared. Some say this book is an extreme case, bit it's impact cannot be denied!
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Summary: This book truely scared me
Review: I read this book for the first time in 8th grade. It scaredme. After reading what this poor girl did for the drugs, it made mepetrified of them. The book is so real, and it shows it could happen to a innocent person in any sort of way. I think this book shuld be a manditory reading in all high schools. Despite the language, it will scare almost anyone from following in her foot steps.
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