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Summary: This book really makes you think about drug use in America.
Review: This book really makes you feel for the girl that wrote it, and just shows how horriable drugs are for teens. It even shows how oblivous parents can be to their childrens problems. You become happy for Alice and sad for her , hoping that she will make it though her dispair. I recomend this book for both parents and teens to show you what drugs can really do.
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Summary: Still True Today
Review: I read this book many years ago when I was a teenager. I am now 39 years old. This book had such a lasting impression on me. I encourage all children of today to read this book and see what Alice went through. Not a pretty picture, so to speak.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I actually just finished reading this book last night. I found it in my basement, as my mom read it when she was my age. I read the summery, and immidiatly started reading it. I finished this book in 3 days, and I love it. It's so real. I reccomend that all teens read this book. I know you won't regret it.
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Summary: Is this for real?
Review: I've always wondered if maybe this book wasn't just drug propaganda---completely made up to scare kids from doing drugs. I mean, it doesn't seem very personal, and the drug horrors are strickly by-the-book. Does anyone have any information? thanks.
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Summary: this book will stay with you for years....
Review: i first read "go ask alice" when i was 11 or 12, the years sometimes fade together. it left such a profound effect on me, and i have read it over and over so many times now that i have lost track. i am now 18 years old, and it remains to this day one of my favorite books. as i look back, i realize that this book has shaped the way i am today in many respects, the way i think and view things. at such a young age, the honesty of the text was shocking... i remember reading it in a span of hours, and i could not put it down. i recommend this book often to anyone in search of my opinion. overall, one of the best books i have ever or will ever read.. i will never forget alice.
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Summary: SWEET!!!!!!!!!
Review: I loved this book. I read it twice and enjoyed it just as much the second time that i read it as the first. It was interesting, and a captivating subject to read about it. I would recommend this book to teenagers or adults. It is a book that anyone who was interested in this serious topic would like. I found it an interesting book because I had heard about what drugs could do to you but when I finished reading Go Ask Alice I truly understood the damages that it can do to you and the people that love you and the people that love you.
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Summary: Just great!
Review: This book was the bomb!! But "Anonymous" was not!! She was stupid in what she did, never kept her promises, and made bad choices. I thought it was kind of gross at the end, with the worms eating her, but that stuff happens. I still don't completely understand how she got the worms. All I know is, this is a good book and shows lots about what you shouldn't do so you aren't a fool like "Anonymous". If you like this book, read "Jay's Journal".
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Summary: A HardCore Story
Review: This book is a perfect example of a teenager on drugs. I must admit that the ending of the story sent chills down my spine because it had a very suprising ending. The story of a girl's battle with drugs is confusing at some points because she is obviously totally mixed up at times in which she made her journal entries. But overall I think the book is exceptional and every teenager should read it.
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Summary: Judy Blume inspired propaganda
Review: There is a hint of embarrassment when I admit that when I read this book I believed it. I also believed that The Satan Seller by Mike Warnke was real as well. It did have much of the teen angst that I needed to read at the time, and it was an entertaining read. Later on I graduated to The Catcher in the Rye and read Stephen King for my horror, but I still have fond memories of Go Ask Alice.
Unfortunately the more I thought of the book, the more I realized that it was a load of it... As with Faces of Death, the authoritarian voice of the editor makes people believe that it is real. However, anyone the least bit familiar with propoganda will see how much this book is like Reefer Madness.
The cliched drug hysteria stories abound. Pot leads to heroin. Acid puts you in the mental hospital on the first trip. Your drug friends have an obsession with getting you back into drugs after you leave, one that makes the Jews for Jesus look openminded by comparison. People rape you on drugs, even though they seemed cool before you did drugs. People who do heroin can take cocaine to come back up and rape you. The biggest market for new entrepeneurial drug dealers is the school yard, selling to 8 year olds. Oh, and in case you didn't get the message already...the main character in Go Ask Alice is DEAD DEAD DEAD --- she OD'd shortly after she decided to start her life anew. Doesn't that just mean drugs are bad????
I might not have had these suspicions if the "discoverer" of this diary didn't also "discover" a teenage satan worshipper's diary at the height of the satan hysteria of the 80s.
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Summary: I love "Alice"
Review: This was the first book I've read from beging to end in a long time. I easily get bored with books and never finish them. Go Ask Alice was so great I read it in less than 7 hours this past weekend and I started reading it again today. I will start reading it to my boyfriend soon. I feel I love "Alice". When I was out or eating I could not help but wonder what was going to happen to her next. I cryed when I read the end for the reason that is obvious to those who've read and because there was no more book, I cold no longer wonder what was going to happen to "Alice". The same weekend that I read this book, my friends were all out getting high. They do that alot, with no regard to life. I don't know what to do. I think that if "Alice" is real she'll help my friends because you know that's what she wanted to do, help kids! I'd be heart broken if I ever found out that this was not real. becki, 17
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