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Summary: It was a very informational book, that helped me out alot.
Review: This informative book was great. It answered practically all of my questions about...well you know. Things that I was too embarassed to ask anyone else. I would recommend this book to anyone who has questions about, well teen life.
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Summary: Best book ever!!!
Review: This book was awesome!!!!!Everyone should read it!!I finished it in three days and I usually don't like to read.Then I gave it to my boyfriend and he read it in two days!!We realy liked it!!It made us aware of the consequences of drugs and how easy it was for her to get hooked.It scared me but I think that it was supposed to.It made me cautious.I will read this book over and over!!You have to read it!!!
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Summary: Hard to believe
Review: Did the publisher pull this right out of a diary? I swear, the language and text are so dull, blunt, and repetative that it makes "Alice's" problems with drugs and social issues hard to relate to and understand. I became quite restless after the 3rd chapter or so, and just continued reading it so I could relate to and have a background on this so-called "teenage classic". If Everyman's Library ever put this book into their series, I swear, it's the end of great literature and influences. Personally, I enjoyed The Bell Jar much more. More intense, and a true novel of elegance and class.
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Summary: Great book
Review: This book was by far the best book that I have ever read.It shows you how horrible the world of drugs actually is. This is a great book for anyone takeing drugs or thinking of it. It will totally turn you off.
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Summary: Still rings true.
Review: I read this book as an adolescent, and again as an adult. "Go Ask Alice" rings truer today than it did 25 years ago. At 36, I can't even count the number of my friends and acquaintances whose lives were ruined by drugs. What a waste.
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Summary: This Book Shows What A Life Wit Drugs Is Like
Review: This book was very detailed, and graphic. It showed the horrors that you are faced with when you have a life with drugs. I reccomend this book to teenagers of all ages.
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Summary: awesome book
Review: I read Go Ask Alice (for the first time) this summer. It was fascinating; a detailed look into the life of a teenage girl whose life is thrown out of control by her addiction to drugs. I understand that some people do not have the same experience (marijuana leading to harder drug use), but it is a fact that many people have found this to be true in their own experiences. I definitely think that all teens should read this, whether they experiment with drugs or not.
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Summary: This is the best and most honest book that I have ever read.
Review: This is the second time I have read this book. Both times since it was so good I read it in 2 days. It is about a diray of a teenage girl trying to be her own person, but it is really about the dirty, rotten truths about society back then. But what is even more terrible; it is the same mess many teens like me are still trying to deal with today after thirty years. Don't you think people could have learned by now??? This book is a great start though.
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Summary: The Generation X version of "reefer madness"
Review: As a teenager, I read "Go Ask Alice", believing that it was the diary of a real girl who was experimenting with drugs. And anyone who reads the book in the "bits and pieces" method, rather than in one long session, will continue to believe that this is a "real" diary. Woe to anyone who begins to examine the "facts", because they are about to become more disillusioned than any drug-addled kids in the entire book. First of all, this diary is supposed to cover a time period of approximately one year. If one were to make a list of every single "disaster" and tragedy that happens in the space of this year, it would be ridiculous. Really, even "Melrose Place" doesn't get THAT dramatic. But the dead giveaway that the diary is a fake comes when our heroine, the "Alice" of the book, UNKNOWINGLY takes a drug because someone slipped LSD in her drink. After all, we KNOW that nice middle-class white females don't take drugs willingly for the first time. Doesn't this whole scene just scream "ABC Afterschool Special"? Keep in mind, also, that this book was published in the days when stories that portrayed "nice" girls having sex would "punish" them with pregnancy. If this were one of those YA novels, one of 2 things would happen: the girl would instantly die of an overdose, or she would get a "reefer madness" attack and become a druggie. Without missing a beat, "Alice" opts for the latter and much like a kid in a candy store, our heroine immediately goes wild with every drug on the planet. Suddenly, everything makes her hallucinate, even a mild narcotic like marijuana. Possibly the most offensively stereotypical moment is the point in the novel where "Alice" discovers her drug-dealer boyfriend with the suspiciously low sex drive is in fact, homosexual (so THAT'S WHY he's evil!). With this, she immediately berates herself for "peddling drugs for a low-class queer" although she had no problem selling hits of acid to (get this) 9- and 10-year-olds on the playground BEFORE SHE KNEW HE WAS A HOMO. A rather "conservative" view of sex from a drugged-out hippie, no? There are numerous inconsistencies in the book, as well as just an eerie generic feeling, since we don't get very much basic information about this girl, such as her favorite colors, pets, hobbies, etc. To the author's credit, the voice of the "girl" is often very touching and starkly honest. However, one gets the definite feeling that the "girl" is a mere composite, a conglomeration of interviews with several teenage runaways, dropouts, druggies, mental patients, etc. Why? Again, the generic "Everygirl" descriptions of various events. For instance, "Alice" 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 are stereotypically harassing poor "Alice" because she's trying to stay straight, she remarks straight out of left field that "Chris is lucky, she moved to a new place where no one knew her." Huh? Her BEST FRIEND MOVES AWAY and even though she earlier cried over a friend who was going away to summer camp, Chris gets nothing more than a mere ASIDE? ("Oh, by the way, she moved."?!) THIS is supposed to be a real diary? Another example: "Alice" spends pages rhapsodizing about the "groovy" drug trips and the far-out colors she sees. But sex? A mere paragraph, and a nondescript, prudish one at that, sums up her feelings on the subject. One of the biggest experiences of a person's life is apparently nothing to "Alice". "I thought it would be like dogs humping, but it wasn't at all." Uh, yeah, that reads like a typical teenage diary. Whatever. It should be noted that every bad thing that happens to "Alice" is because she either took drugs or someone slipped her a bad drug. "Alice" just can't win. The sheer camp factor alone makes the book entertaining, but the propaganda is annoying and obvious. If one were to read a novel about drugs and experimentation, it's better to read a book that tells the truth, instead of pretending that LSD leads to speed, pot, mescaline, etc. I would recommend "I Can Stop Anytime I Want" by James Trivers or "Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis. Read "Alice" for the entertainment value, but toss it on the Nancy "Just Say No" Reagan heap for the actual information value.
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Summary: THIS BOOK ROX!
Review: I just started reading this book in a book store and I was hooked. I sit in class and sneak it out so I can read it! It is the best book to scare people of doing drugs and show that it really isn't a good thing!
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