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Summary: The Best Book I've Read
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. It's a non-fictional diary of a teenager. She writes about being an adolescent and making choices, and thinking about life. It describes how she was "tripped" (drugged) by a friend and becomes a drug addict. She tries to break away from drugs, but her attempts usually fail. It's a book that can change some of your opinions, and also sad. It makes you think.
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Summary: I Knew "Alice"
Review: I knew Alice, and I knew her well.....She and I were the same person for so very long. This is more than a book....this is a look into every stoned out person's mind you see on the streets. Alice and I are and will always be a part of eachother. I highly reccomend this book, for parents of teens, for teens, for children, for anyone looking to see the truth behind drug use. There has to be some way for everyone in America to read this book. If you are thinking of buying it....do so. If you can't afford to buy it, go to your local library and check it out. It will be well worth your time.
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Summary: A book about drugs and the effect it has on you.
Review: I really liked the book "Go Ask Alice" because it gave a lot of really good details. This book was interesting because it's a girl's diary about how she moves to another city and goes back and meets people that didn't like her before. These people got her into doing drugs and other things she usally wouldn't have done if it weren't for drugs. This book tells about the hard times in her life .My opinion on this book was really good. For anyone who just looks at the cover of a book, this would be a book I would read over and over again. I got an idea of what drugs could do to you and that's why I liked this book.
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Summary: there's no one out here who can't benefit from this book
Review: once we open our mind, so much can be realized. at first, i should admit, i thought this would be a huge piece of propaganda that anti-drug crusaders concocted. granted, it may be, but there's so much to learn that i doubt it...there IS reality to her story. it doesn't just flat out say "drugs are bad" or anything~ it illustrates the allure to doing them, as well as the very real effects it MAY have. Not everyone ends up as she did, but many do. i felt myself going up when she did- wanting to get high like she was- and down when she hit bottom over and over. this book can open your eyes, whether you're 12, 21, or 63... whether you're a drug addict, unaware drugs exist, or part of the mainstream. no one is exempt from the reality of drugs... or from Alice
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Summary: Go Ask Alice - anonymous
Review: Go Ask Alice, was written by a young 15 yeard old girl who is anonymous. The book is an autobiography of her life sometime in the 60's. As you read this book you are able to feel the girls' life as though you were there with her. She writes her true thoughts and isn't afraid to tell the truth.
The diary starts out normal enough. A middle class white teenager. She has her good moments and then some bad. Her father gets a new job at a university in another city. The girl is excited about the move at first, but then later gets a little nervous. Eventually she makes the move to a new place. At first when she gets there no one says anything to her. Eventually she makes a companion in Gerta, but that doesn't last long. After Gerta she meets Beth. Beth and the girl become best of friends. You actually feel she is finally happy. Then it's summer vacation, and Beth's mother is shipping her off to a Jewish camp. The girl is left all by herself. Since she has no friends she decides to spend the summer with Gran and Gramps.
When she gets to Gran and Gramps she meets up with some of her old friends. They invited her to a party, unknowlingly the girl drinks a bottle of soda that has been spiked with LSD. She has a trip, later to be said it was wonderful. After that trip on LSD she couldn't stop tripping, she loved it. Later that summer she would lose her virginity to a boy named Billy while tripping.
After that summer she came home. Her bestfrined Beth had met a guy and pretty much forgotten her. But that was ok because she met a new frined Chris. Chris and the girl became best frineds. They would do drugs with two guys named Richie and Ted. Untill one day the two girls walked in on the guys having sex together.
Then the girls move to San Fransico and start up their own boutique. After about 6 months of that they come back home. They are trying to become clean, but again they trip on acid. Now they are both very popular. Then there is a big drug bust. The girl frightned and !scared flees off to Oregon. Where endures some trouble.
She gets involved in a lot of bad stuff in Oregon. Finally she comes back home. She decides then and there to become clean. The first year back it was very hard, because her old frineds hated her for wanting to be clean. One of her ex-friends even goes out of her way to get her a peice of candy that is cover with LSD. She had a bad trip and is put in a mental insitution.
After she gets out of the mental insitution she makes friends with the very stright kids. Just when you think she had reserected her life she stops writing in her diary. Then 3 weeks later she OD's.
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Summary: Very Real
Review: I am a typical high schooler and i dont read much. But when i read "Go Ask Alice" i couldn't put the book down (and that almost never happens). This story graphically depicts the realistic life of a teenage girl and her struggle with drugs. I think this is the best book i've ever read. And i still remember the story vividly even though its been a year or 2 since i read it. I recommend this book to all my friends.
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Summary: Excellent book not just for teens
Review: Reading the other reviews I see a lot of comments like: "if your thinking about doing drugs read this", or "a must for any teenager". While I agree, I got something completely different from the book - a sense of how much people need support and how easily we can fail to give it. There were many times in the book that it seems "Alice" was screaming for someone to help her and no-one was there. For me that was the most important message. Every parent should read this book to get a real understand of what it is like as a teenager.
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Summary: INSTEAD OF TEACHING KIDS ABOUT DRUGS MAKE THEM READ THIS
Review: Teachers should read this book as much as children and parents. Instead of having the horrors of drugs and alcohol abuse being preached in schools, they should just let the kids read this book. Alice has been there. She knows the truth. Many health teachers who teach about drug abuse probably have never been there but she has and can tell you so much more! What a crazy and wonderful book! It's so sad and truthful. She was a normal girl like anyone else (my mother and I have this argument all the time). My mother has read the book and says that everything Alice does is her own fault and is wrong, etc. I think that Alice was drawn into this terrible world with no choice. Kind of. I mean she really did want to escape and live a normal life! But then everyone was so cruel to her and teased her, tortured her, put drugs in the peanuts etc. and drove her crazy she never had a chance to redeem herself. It's just too bad--she seemed like such a beautiful, intelligent, imaginative girl with lots of potential and who just didn't make it. What a loss and a pity! She really did want to stop.
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Summary: Olmost the truth
Review: Well, I read this book a few weeks ago, and it's the best book I've ever read. I Read it in one day. I'm 17 years old, and I can say, basing on my own xperience, that this book it's true. I recomend all teens to read this, maybe you wont let drugs down, but at least, it would make you think.
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Summary: You will love this book.
Review: Meet Anonymous, she is every teenager. Her problems are real problems that everyone has faced, or will face soon. Her drug & alcohol abuse is really just the tip of the iceberg compaired to her problems with her parents, school, her weight, etc. I don't know if this is a real diary or not, but if it is, My God, I pity that girl for all of her hardships. I honestly wish I could have known Anonymous, she seems like a very warm person. But I'm sure in a way we all know a person who is exactly like Anonymous, and we just don't know it. I first read this book when I was 15 years old, now I am 25, and I still think this is the best book ever written. I strongly urge PARENTS to read this book! No, I am not crazy, but all parents, including me, can learn alot from Anonymous. She makes you remember what it was like to be a teenager. She also reminds us to LISTEN to others, and help them when we can!
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