Go Ask Alice

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Summary: A great book in my eyes. I'll never forget Alice.
Review: While I read this amazing book I cried periodically. It is such a true, horrific story that I could not hold my immotions back. Now that I have read this I will never make the same mistakes as Alice. This book has taught me a lot about life. And I will never forget her, ever!

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Summary: A REAL diary???No one will ever know, but still a MUST read!
Review: The first time I read Go Ask Alice I was 15 years old. I am 25 now and have just finished reading it again, making it the 4th read. There is alot of controversy over whether or not the book is a real life diary. I wouldn't have questioned it when I was younger, but as an older "wiser", more experienced person...I do have my doubts. The argument that the book is fictional is that it brings out just about every drug stereotype we've all heard before, the sexual abuse and promiscuity, the evil-druggie friends that torment her when she's off drugs, the gateway she follows into other drugs, etc... However, we could also argue that these stereotypes weren't just pulled out of thin air, they really do happen. It is quite possible that "Alice" did exist and did write this beautiful yet tragic and heart-wrenching journal of her young life. Does it really matter? Not to me. It's a TRUE TO LIFE tale, and that's all that really needs to be known.

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Summary: this book has helped me think twice about doing drugs.
Review: one day i sat down and read this book. ever since i have read it, i have thought twice about ever doing half of the drugs that were mentioned. i meen i have tried some of them but this book has kept me off of all of them. i'm really glad i read it. i think all teen's should read this book because it can turn your whole life around and make you think twice about what u r doing before you do it. i thank who ever it may be who wrote this book for what it has done with my life.

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Summary: A tragic diary of a teenage girl addicted to drugs
Review: Have you ever wondered what it is like in the horrific world of drugs? All you have to do is read this amazing diary of a girl who became addicted to drugs. This book shows you how life can be sometimes if you don't make the right choices. Go Ask Alice is set in the early seventies(a time where drug use was at an all time high). The main character is a teenage girl who feels very inadequate and has a very low self-confidence level. All she wants to do is fit in like everybody else. She doesn't have many friends and the ones that she does have are very dorky and unpopular. Most of her inadequacy comes from her utterly perfect family. Her parents have always pushed her to be something that she could never be-"perfect". Alice had always been a good teenager. She dealt with normal teenage problems such as weight problems, peer pressure, and love. She had never thought about taking drugs before. She didn't think that she needed them. Alice's world is turned upside down though after she goes to a party and someone puts drugs in ger drink. After that night Alice was never the same. 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. I strongly recommend this book to anyone that wants to open their hearts to a girl that just wanted so much to belong. You might even be able to relate to her. You will be drawn into Alice's world and never be able to leave. This is a wonderful book and I think that everyone should have the chance to read Go Ask Alice!

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Summary: I think this book was the best of the best!
Review: This book is a book that applies to everyone..whether it be adults, teenagers, boys, girls, drug users, or nondrug users. The reality of the novel hit me as I read, and I was overwhelmed by the fact that this had actually happened, and is still happening. As a teenage, I loved how the author told her story "straight up", without trying to make a sordid story better or language cleaner. This is a book that everyone should have a chance to read.

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Summary: relates to the reality of teen life in todays society
Review: Go Ask Alice was an incredible book that related to today's society. It deals with the struggles of teenagers in life. It dealt with drugs, sex and basically everything that a teenager deals with. I highly reccommend the book to young people to read because it is a book that i think that everybody would be interested in reading. I especially enjoyed the book because of the reality of situations and how Alice reacted to the troubles that occured in her life. I reccommend this book to all audiences above 14 years old. I give this book five stars and believe that it really deserves it.

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Summary: Extreamely Good! An Open your eyes book! Drugs not answer!
Review: I love this book! I have read it twice and it really makes me realize that because of drugs this beautiful girl died at such a stupid cost! Every one should read this book!

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: Go Ask Alice is a very moving story that touches the heart. The tragic ending and hardships that Alice faces is enough to make anyone cry. I believe that this story helps teenagers learn about drug abuse and the concequences they can cause. I recommend as a teenager that all parents buy their child this book to help them see the destruction drugs can have on a person. Especially a young child.

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Summary: Life Imitates Art
Review: This book was the talk of girls in my 9th grade class in '72. The drugged-out sixties kids were growing up, leaving fascinated teenagers (in my school, anyway) musing about sit-ins, psychedelics and the summer of love. We wanted to be Alice! We staged school protests! (wore pants to school when girls were still required to wear skirts and dresses!) Anything we could get our hands on, we smoked, snorted and swallowed. We washed our hair in mayonnaise, set our hair with orange juice cans (yes, we did!) We hitchhiked whenever we needed to get somewhere (no 16-yr-olds owned cars) We listened to the Airplane, the Dead and Jimi Hendrix. But, I wondered how teenage Alice, with her poor self-esteem, got the smarts and the moxie to start a business with her similarly afflicted friend when the pair hitchhiked to San Francisco. I guess I chalked it up to the fact that kids grew up faster in those days...(kids truly are more sheltered today) Anyway, I envied Alice's life back in the day. I was a typical 16 year old girl, going to school, in a very small town. Alice's life seemed so fast and exciting! What great drugs she took! Her hippie friends were all so cool! Nothing I tried, nobody I hung out with even came close to what she described. But I kept doing drugs-no more an addict than Alice was- because peer pressure and curiosity are an incredibly strong combination when you and your friends are young, lonely, bored and not particularly loved or cared about by your families. Just to point out a common misconception- Nothing in the way of pharmaceuticals that Alice experimented with could have addicted her except for heroin and speed; and i can't recall her taking heroin. AND the hospital was not a MENTAL hospital, that terminology is extremely dated. The hospital was a Rehab treatment center. Did I think the diary was true? Now, I don't - the contrasts from a well-cared-for upper-middle class family life to the degenerate sexual lifesyle do not gel. Alice was extremely sophisticated in her writing syle and observations at times. The roller-coaster events over the course of a year were truly something created by someone's imagination. I think the book is an easy read, and it has some merit for young people. But kids are looking for someone to emulate. I hope that todays teenagers don't look at this story the same way as I did, as something glamorous and exciting. If you are a parent, talk to your child as much as possible, and really stay in touch with their feelings.

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Summary: Frighteningly real
Review: This is the best and most influential book i've ever read. This book shows a real account of a young girl battling an addiction and living as a teen. I can't even describe how great this book is and how it has affected my life.