Go Ask Alice

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Summary: Annoymous Diary of a teenage girl
Review: Teenagers go through rough stages. Some are worse than others. Parents, friends, nieghbors, and peer pressure can influence the way they handle these stages. In a annoymous diary called "Go ask Alice" a girl experinces rough teenage years. Dr. Sparks invites readers to discover a diray of a teenage girl that is pressured into participating into things that leads her into many difficult problems. Alice starts off as an ordianary young women. She attends a party that changes her life forever. I recommend this book to teenage girls who can put themselves into Alice's position and learn the importance of dealing with pressure, friends, and parents. Teens will find themsleves captured in Alice's everyday writings. They will see how Alice increases her struggles and what she leads herself into.

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Summary: must read
Review: I thought it was a great movie. I watched it when i was a kid. I have read it since then. Dose anyone know if you can buy the movie. I also watched it on TV when i was kid. I would like to find the movie.

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Summary: I'm not sure what to make of this book
Review: I'm not quite sure just what to make of Go Ask Alice. It claims to be a 'real diary' but there are parts of it that make me wonder. I could see this written, completely ficticiously, as an anti-drug book. Still, real or not, it does try to examine the drug issue and does an ok work of it. I'd say for a better choice pick up William Burroughs' Junky.

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Summary: Dark
Review: This book made me thank my parents. I read Go Ask Alice in a night, proboley because I had to finish an essay on this book in the morning but hey I read it. Go Ask Alice is about a girl who is like the rebel without a cause. She gets into drugs, sex in the whole era of the 60s or 70s. I couldnt help but imagine how her parents raised her. If this book is true, I think the parents should consiter talking to a therpist. Go Ask Alice made me love my mother even more then I did before.

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Summary: "Go Ask Alice"
Review: Go Ask Alice was a book about a girl who did drugs and messed up her life. She started out as just a regular girl, did not use drugs and got good grades. Then one day she got invited to a party, they were passing out cokes and then after she drank some she found out the people who had the party put LSD into her coke, "It was so beautiful, I could not stand the sight of it," she said. Well little did she know she was going to get sucked in to the world of drugs, let alone become a pusher, and one-day she ran away! She took a bus to Salt Lake City then backtracked to San Francisco. Read this book to find out what happened to her on her way home, because I don't want to give away the surprising ending.
I would recommend this to kids 12 and up, it has some things that youngsters might not understand. This book has 185 pages. Read this book if you want to find out what might happen to you if you do drugs.

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Summary: A Tragic Death.....
Review: I thought that this book was the most wonderful book I have ever read. I didn't know about this book, until a girl in my class did a project on it and it seemed interesting. The book is about a girl that gets mixed in drugs and then runs away, because she thinks that it will be better to be on her own and away from the family. Alot of bad things happen to her, through out that whole time. Then one day when she came back home, her father introduced her to a young man, that went to a college her father taught in. She fell in love and she said that she was going to starighten out, because she didn't want to mess up her life anymore. So when she went back to school, she got herself new clean friends and she had Joel everything was going to be good or so she thought. She died three weeks after she decided not to keep a journal, because she said she was getting to old for childish things like that. Its very sad, what some kids go through and the worst part of that is that they don't know how to get out of it. This was a book a real girl's life, but how many children are still out there that need help? This book also made me think a lot about the children in our socity and thats why i give this book a five.

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Summary: Admitted work of fiction - your kids will see through it
Review: I won't deny that this book is a great one - and I don't discount that it has probably kept a lot of people from trying drugs.

But what you should know, before buying this - either for yourself or for someone else - is that this book is not the real diary of a teenager. It has been exposed as such, a work of fiction by a woman called Beatrice Sparks, who wrote several other "diaries" - "Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager", "Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager", "Jay's Journal ", and even "It happened to Nancy".

So, strike one - it's not real, and most kids today are going to realize that. They're a lot smarter than you think - so before you try to scare them straight with this book, consider that it might hurt your credibility to endorse something that is phony. It doesn't even read like the diary of a teenage girl - structurally and content-wise, it reads like a novel written by a middle-aged woman - which, coincidentally, it is.

Anyone who *has* done drugs will be amused by how ludicrous the situations are. This good girl breaks bad after becoming addicted to tons of illegal drugs after having her drink spiked with acid at a party. Again, you know better than this - and your kids probably do, too. Strike two.

I am all for keeping kids - even adults! - away from drugs. But the best way to do that is with the facts. An overdramatic, inaccurate scary story is not the way to do it. This book is NOT a substitute for attentive parenting, and is pretty much useless. Strike three.

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Summary: Amazing
Review: My mom told me to rent this book when I was in 6th grade. I didn't fully understand her addiction. I kept asking myself "why doesn't she just stop?". That question was stored in the back of my mind and I read the book a few more times.
As a recovering addict, now in the 11th grade, I have read the book 3 times since the begining of my usage. The story is very real. And very hard to cope with. I love books that bring me to tears. Alice's story moves and captivates me. I can relate to it a lot.
My parents can relate to the book as well. Alough they were never addicts, they know what it's like, from seeing me go through addiction. Many people ask why Alice's parent didn't just put her in a rehab center, and I can see why. It's very hard to realize that your child has a potentially deadly disease.
Go Ask Alice is a great book, and it deserves 5 stars!

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Summary: Awesome Story!!
Review: Go Ask Alice
An anonymous author wrote this book because this book is a real young girl's diary. The theme of this book is reality. It talks about a young girl named Alice who moved to a new state and started high school. She meets a friend in her new school but when she goes away for the summer all bad things begin to happen. Alice wasn't considered to hang out with popular kids in her old school but when she came to visit she met up with them and they started to talk to her and invited her to a party. At the party there were a lot of drugs and some of the popular kid's thought it would be funny if they slipped drugs into Alice's drink. Alice didn't know they did that but she loved the feeling she got and she got addicted to drugs. Alice dropped out of school and she left her house. She started to do anything for drug. Read this book and find out what happens to Alice.
My opinion on this book was that I thought it was a nice easy book to read and it wasn't those types of books that you wanted to watch television instead of reading. It was a book that you couldn't put down and I would know because boring books you just don't keep reading. I think the character of this book was insecure and she just wanted to be in the popular crowd. But she wasn't too bright because they used her for a joke. This is a great book to learn from especially if you're in high school and you want to fit in but you don't know which crowd is the bad one and which is the good. Everyone has to make decisions in life and you learn from the bad and hopefully Alice learned too. Drugs are not cool. Drugs mess you up and make you do bad things, you can tell that by the way Alice acts. She will do anything to get any kind of drug. This book taught me a lesson on how bad drugs are for your physical appearance and your health hopefully more people would learn this lesson.

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Summary: can we try again?
Review: Hello everyone! Hmm, what to say about this little book? First,I don't have as much praise for it as some other reviewers, but I'll try to find something good to say.

Here are some reasons I think this book is fictionl:

1. Too many drug users around dear little Alice:

a) Alice gets druged without even kowing it
b) Alice is clean; a girl (Chris) gives her 'little heart' pills...she's addicted again.
c) Alice and Chris have boyfriends and sell drugs to little children, etc.
d) Alice and Chris find their boyfriends having sex and decide to go out on their own (they are clean [of drugs] for now)
e) In a new town, Alice and Chris get invited to a party by a rich and 'beautiful' woman (who is Chris's employer)
f) The party is full of rich people who smoke pot (Alice and Chris start using again). Then they try heroin from Chris' employer and some man and then get raped by them.
g) After awhile they're home and clean (then Chris calls her and they start using again)
h) Blah blah blah.....Alice is clean again, but then someone putts drugs in some chocolate peanuts she eats, and she goes crazy and blah blah blah... Why would people waste money on her to become a user again is beyond me.

2. The moral of this story seems to be: "If you stop writing in your diary, and you were a drug user, you'll die." (This is the feeling I got when I finished the book.)

Now, let's look at this book as if it were all true. My only question is: Have Alice's parents ever heard of drug rehab centers? They did have those back then, didn't they? Alice ran away from home a few times, and then came back and her parents didn't seem to wanna know why she did it. They just acted like a 'perfect' little family. She got caught using drugs, and all her parents said was: "Come back right after school, missy!"

Whatever.

The good things? I guess it could have shocked some people (not me), and inform them how damaging drugs can be.

I give this book 2 stars because someone putt some time into writing it. I personally don't think that Alice or any other teen actually wrote this. (Probably the amazing editor who keeps finding these 'journls' wrote them themselves).

-Ater