Go Ask Alice

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Summary: This book was very informative on drugs and the affects.
Review: This book was a very inspirational one. It shows the problems and struggles that teens were and are faced with in life. The girl who wrote this story seemed to be very smart. If she a little bit more will power, she probably could have made it and lived a very succesful life as a counselor. Maybe if she kept writing in a diary, she may have been alright.

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Summary: The best book ever!!!!!!!
Review: This is the diary of an anonymous teenage girl who is feeling down and gross and imperfect and so buys this diary to write down her thoughts. Then to make matters worse, her family moves to a different town. the one friend she finds there is ripped away. Fiinally it iis summer and she goes to stay with her grandparents, who live in her old hometown. She sees a girl she used to know, who invites her to a party, where she is slipped a tab of LSD and goes on her first acid trip. From there she gets more and more curious about drugs, gets into heavier drugs. She runs away from home, then goes back. then she does it again. she ends up in an insane asylum for a while after someone slips her another tab of LSD while she is babysitting, and it turns out bad. There is kind of a surprise ending, and although it is a little dated with references to hippies and stuff, it could really open your eyes if you've been thinking about drugs.

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Summary: A fabulous account of one girl's struggle with drug abuse.
Review: This book covers only a few years time, yet "Alice" lived through quite a lot during those few years, though that time was full of blanks caused by her drug abuse. She experienced much more than many people experience through-out their entire lives. This book is wonderfully written and shockingly vivid.
There are so many things I liked about this book, that I have read and re-read it many times. I read this book as a young girl and I feel it helped me decide that I did not want to get caught up in the drug scene; I would recommend this as a present for any teenager.

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Summary: So poignant I remember it twenty-three years later!
Review: One of the many books I credit with informing me about drugs. It's gruesome, it's sad, it's straight. I knew in my twelve year old mind and heart I never wanted to experience the hell that drugs could bring to your life and loved ones. It will be on my three children's reading list!

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Summary: well-meaning propoganda
Review: I do not believe that this book, the specific story it tells, is in any way an individual account of a specific truth. This book is pure anti-drug propaganda. Sure, sure, it's a good cause and hopefully has helped some distraught youths and , perhaps, some older folk as well. But the insidious thing, the lie, the aggrived, tormented, emotional vaccuum we are stuffed into by this simple-minded prose and the actual realization that some government official, some humped up guy in a quiet, Justice Department office in 1960, 1970, whatever was hunched over his desk, chirping this out in a writing style he no doubt lifted from his anguished daughter's break-up letters with her thirteen year old boyfriend. What a laugh riot he must have had intermixing the terribly sad, tragic case histories with the quivering outrage of an 'I know you we talking to Bridget!' page and a half. It's a good book, and don't allow my diversionary tactics to dissuade you from reading it and don't allow my ideas to anger you if you need help. Just know the truth.

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Summary: A really cool book about drugs and suicide
Review: I'm eleven years old and I read this when I was ten. I liked this book because it was sad and true. It took me a long time to read because I really took in what I read.

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Summary: Continues to make me ponder...
Review: I happened to stumble on this book years ago, as I just did this website. I remember the text vividly, and the flood of pity and emotion I felt for the anonymous author. I have read the book numerous times, and recommend it to anyone who loves a great " can't put it down novel". I was not suprised when reading other reviews posted here that other readers wish to know more about what happened to the author and even more intimate details. Unfortunately, this real life account leaves you hungry for more.... I, too, wonder about what her family thought, the circumstances of her death and the time it took to fall from grace. You will never forget this book.

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Summary: Pretty cool!
Review: I usually don't read many books and i haven't done any drugs except alcohol. but i read this book in one day and i really liked it! If its true? who knows, who cares! I really think that you must have really bad luck to go what she has been through because someone slipped you a hit. But this was done in the sixtys and im only seventeen so how am i to judge.

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Summary: This was a great book that makes you aware of todays society
Review: The teenager in this book as learned what taking Druge is all about and even though she got hooked she still is able to show us (the reader) what pain is caused by doing what she has done. If you want tou undersatnd life with drugs than forsure read this book, but let me tell you it will open your eyes. ENJOY!:)!:)

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Summary: Please read this book, it will make you think!
Review: Go Ask Alice is one of the greatest most important books that I have ever read. The first time that I ever read it, I was 12 years old. Of corse then I had never thought about all of the experiences that Alice had. To this day, I can still admit to people that I before had tried a lot of drugs until the day that I remembered this book, and the awful experience she went through. I decided t never again use any harsh drugs. But also, maryjuana is not what got her hooked, and speaking from personal experience I know that it can have some good advantages. But not if you are doing it to deal with your own problems. Well, read this book anyways even if you are not thinking about drugs, you can help others too! But i hope that when you read this book you are not going to be in a hurry any where, cause you won't be able to put it down!!!!