Go Ask Alice

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Summary: A heart wrencher you will never forget!
Review: I read this book about five years ago, around the time when some of my friends were making the decision to do drugs. After reading Go Ask Alice I decided to break away from that group of friends to avoid any risk of my life or the loss of one of them! To this day I am deeply affected by the journal of one girl who made the decision to use drugs. I, along with many others, think that everyone should read this book. I will never forget it, and neither will you.

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Summary: This book will make you happy to be alive.
Review: I first read this book as a high schooler nearly 30 years ago. Every teenage girl I knew read it. I read it repeatedly, especially whenever I was feeling depressed, because it always put things in perspective for me and made me realize how lucky I was to not have lived "Alice's" life. At that age it never occurred to me that it might not be true, but I don't think that matters anyway. Good fiction can be as compelling and persuasive as fact. I do not understand the comments of the "school counselor" 63 reviews below. (Ok, so I'm a nut to read all the reviews, but yes I do have a life!) How can he/she say everything ends "peachy-keen" and Alice ends up famous for writing a book? Huh? Was his/her copy missing the last page?

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Summary: This book is honest.
Review: In quite a disturbing way, this book, Go Ask Alice, tells the true horrors of drugs, as well as the beautiful illusion they create. In the midst of drugs, sex, and violence, it also tells of how scarry high-school can be, and how very vounerable a person can become in result of peer-pressure, and peer cruelity. I believe it's necicary for students of the 12-20 age range, to read this book, because to really understand the power of drugs, you have to understand the pain of the user. And this book, Go Ask Alice, lets the reader do just that.

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Summary: This book will take you on on hell of a "trip"
Review: This book starts of innocently enough, but suddenly the author of this journal spirals downward into the world of drugs. Horrifying acounts of "bummers" (bad trips) and amazing highs, this book made me feel as though I was beside Alice the entire time. Not only did I feel her highs and lows, I felt her insanity and her pain. This true story left me in tears. I recommend this book to every teenager who's ever tried or even thought about using drugs.

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Summary: This Book Will Change Your Way Of Thinking
Review: I first came across this book when I was 12 yrs. old, it peaked my interest but I was still to fully understand it. As I got older older and started to experiment with drugs on my own, I went out to find it again. It was exactly what I was going through and more. It helped me realize that I was going down the wrong path, and even though I was only using acid and pot, that it only takes one time for something to go horribly wrong and make you regret your decisions for the rest of your life. Every adolescent should read this, and truly understand that this is not fiction.

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Summary: A AWESOME BOOK!
Review: I'm a 13 year old girl who was assigned to do a assignment and i picked drugs, i was looking about our school library for some books on drugs when i came across this one [Go Ask Alice] so i decided to read it.....when i finshed it i was crying and i swore never ever to touch drugs. I feel sorry for everyone who DOESN'T read this book.

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Summary: This will open your mind about drugs...
Review: This book will change your opinion about drugs, and will probably make you thankful for your life. Alice is an anonymous teenager who really did the things that happen in the book. The book is a little scary, but that's the way things really are on the street. I think it's ok to get a little scared, if it stops you from doing drugs!

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Summary: A girl whose life is ruined by drugs.
Review: Anonymous. Go Ask Alice. 158p. 74-159446. C.1971. 0-671-66458-1. $16.00

This curious girl goes to many different places. She starts at home; then she's at her grandmothers; then she runs away; then she's at home again; then she runs away again; then she comes home again, and then she goes to a hospital. The things that Alice are curios about is sex and drugs. She wonders what makes drugs so terrible and why people use them. When she finally tries them she says that she wouldn't do them anymore until someone asks her to hang out with them and asks her if she wants some, and she accepts the drugs that are given to her. And when she is high she loses her virginity. After doing drugs, she promised her diary that she would never do them again, but she did. She ran away with one of her friends, and they got an apartment and stayed there together for many weeks. They found jobs and paid rent. They tried very hard to save all their money. Once they saved enough money they opened a shop. After owning the shop for a few weeks they decided to go home. They stayed at home for a while. When she was home she started a new diary because she lost track of the days and she wanted to start a new life without drugs. The first step was a new diary. In her second diary she writes everyday just like she did with the first diary she had, all her thought and dreams. But the first time someone offered her drugs she is tempted to take the drugs and she does. She thinks that it will be one last time. But before she knew it she was addicted again. She feels so bad that she started again she runs away from home again. She stays with the people that gave her the drugs. Then some nice people offer to call her parents to come and get her. At first she says no, but after a day or two she asks them to call. When she gets home her parents realize that she's taking drugs and sends her to a clinic so she can get better but something happens and she has a little trouble. If you read the book you'll see if she makes it out okay or not!!!!!! This book was written by an "Anonymous" person. The Anonymous person made me feel like I was there with her. I could relate to the troubles and problems she had to face. The author was very good at making everything seem real through Alice's eyes. This book was anything but boring because everyday of this girls life was an adventure. She was always doing something. I feel that this book was realistically written. It teaches kids today what can happen if you get addicted to drugs. I think that every school should read this book at about the fifth grade so they learn early that drugs are bad and every year teachers should remind them, so that this will not happen to anyone else.

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Summary: Listen here- I don't like this editor!
Review: I've read this story. Several times. And I take it as a good piece of fiction. Note the word fiction. I read another book, Jay's Journal, edited by the same person. I noticed repititions of lines and story patterns. I noticed the same basic message. This writing is manipulative. Perhaps these journals once existed. Perhaps not. But I believe that Sparks's editing was flawed. She used others' words to bring across her own point, and twisted them in the process.

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Summary: An excellent book for everyone to read!
Review: This book is one that everyone should read to see what drugs actually do to you. It was very interesting, once you start reading it you wont be able to put it down.