Go Ask Alice

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Summary: When She's Six Feet Under
Review: This is a good little book to read. I read it in my teens and felt bad for Alice, although I continued my own journey at that time. However by all means anyone that has kids should suggest they read the book.
The book is a very realistic and tragic portrayal of a teenage girl on drugs. She is curious, trying to fit in, and find herself, and that still has not changed as far as our kids are concerned in the now.
The book being twenty something years old, is a little outdated as far as the drugs are concerned. I do not think LSD is that popular, and if it is, it is not as potent. Decades have past and now kids can walk into any drug store and buy all the necessary chemicals to create whatever new designer drug is popular now. The days of weed, speed, and a little acid are gone.
Everything that happens to Alice is sad in this book, she appears to be a "normal" teenager on the outside, but there has to be something else going on that is misdirecting her into the direction that she gets herself into. What is even worse, is that girls in these types of situations tend to get sexually abused under the influence of drugs, but they do not realize it until years later if they are lucky to be alive.


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Summary: The Girl That Did Drugs
Review: Alice started out as a normal teenager dealing with high school and problem with her parents and life. Like any other fifteen year old she kept a diary about what she was going through. Soon at a party that one of her friends invited her to someone slipped acid into her drink and drugged her. Pretty soon after that Alice was hooked and started dating her dealer without her parent's concept. Alice did more and more dangerous drugs ten she meet her friend and ran away with her living alone Alice learned to appreciate life. When her parents found her she was put into a mental institute and Alice got better and was let out. Sadly shortly Alice was let out and home Alice died.

I would recommend this book to every teenager out there but especially all the girls to read this book. It teaches you what drugs can do to you and the consequences are. Most girls don't realize what they are doing because they are under the influence of drugs. Some girls get lucky and don't have nothing but the bad memories of all the happen and they still have their family but others don't have anything and end up with a sexually transmitted disease or even worst dead. So read this book and hopefully this book will make you think twice before taking dugs.



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Summary: The whole truth
Review: Go Ask Alice is my favorite book of all time. I am a 19 year old female. As I read through the other reviews I noticed a lot of ignorant comments about the "reality" of this book. I have done a lot of research since I first read Alice in 1997 and I have come to realize many things about this work.

1. Alice turns 15 in the second entry. She skips mentioning her 16th bday, (probably was too high to remember), and mentions in the last two pages that it is her Dad's bday, which is one day before her's. This makes her 17 at the end of the book. Meaning that she died in the month of October during her Junior year in High School.

2. Yes, there are several scenes which were created (by the editors) for this book. The forshadowing worms eating the corpse, the detailed descriptions of her observations when high. But for those of you who say that it doesn't sound like a "15 year old girl's" diary, think again. I had a friend (Mindy) in high school who did drugs and I read her diary. It sounded MIGHTY similar to Alice's. Alice and Mindy both had high IQ's, they just were immature enough to use drugs.

3. I have read the other so-called "diary's" by the Alice editor, and I think they are all bunk. The "teenage mother", "boy who joins a gang/devil worshippers", "girl who gets HIV/AIDS", etc. There is WAY TOO MUCH DETAIL and DIALOGE in those other books. There is no personality and the events are really unrealistic. I think that the editor realized she had a gold mine with Alice so she cooked up these half baked stories for some quick money.

4.It's the little details that make me believe that the majority of the story is real. The blank lines where the name of a University should be, at the bottom of the page where it says that these entries were recorded on paper bags and bits of paper. Also there really aren't any physical descriptions of her friends.

5. All of the research I have done over the years has led me to these conclusions:
Alice died in the month of October in her Junior year of High School. She was 17.
She lived in the South Western/Western U.S. with her two parents and her two younger siblings.
The year of her death is most likely 1968/1969.
It is possible that her death was caused by the damage already done to her body by her previous drug use. Or that sometime in the three weeks after her last entry she started using again. Most likely, we will never know.

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Summary: amazing book!! i would recommend it to anyone!
Review: Go Ask Alice is the real diary of an anonymous teenage girl growing up in the sixties/seventies. She is like any other teenage girl, looking for friendships and finding out who she truly is. After a friend spiked her drink with LSD, she gets mixed up in her new found world of drugs and sex. When times got hard she would run away only to return back home. She would vow never to do drugs again, and was not successful. After a horrible acid trip, she eventually winds up in a mental institution. When she gets out, she starts a clean life and the diary ends. Yet you find out later that she dies soon after, and you dont know why--i believe it was a drug overdose. When I read this book, I could picture many girls all around America who are looking for themselves and get mixed up with the world of drugs. Every time "Alice" returned back home I hoped that she would stay clean but she never did, and that ultimately led to her demise. This is the diary of a teenage girl, and the fact that this is a true story only sucked me into the book more. I think that everyone should read this book; it really opens your eyes up to truth about teens and drug use.

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Summary: Great read
Review: I first heard of this book from my 6th Grade Science teacher (im now a junior in college). She would read certain passages from the book to us. I found a copy of it, and read it; it took me one sitting to read it. I could not put it down. I have since read it 4 or 5 times. I would recommend it to anyone.

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Summary: Not as bad as you might think
Review: I first read this book when I was a sophomore in high school. Like other reviewers, I enjoyed it because this was the first book that my parents and teacher allowed me to read that had "adult language" in it. As an adult though, it seems rather apparent that GO ASK ALICE is not a true story. Any adult with connected brain cells will notice that it's choppy, unrealistic, preachy and over simplistic. However, with that said, I must admit that I still think this book had some redeeming qualities. I never touched any drug after reading this book, perhaps because I was afraid that I would end up like Alice. Some say it's wrong to lie to prove a point? I have learned that in some instances the truth needs to be exaggerated so that others will listen.

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Summary: must read for parents
Review: I read Thia book in one day. It is very scarey for a parent of a pre teen. I think all parents and teenage kids should read this.
My daughter is 11 I think she is a little to young for this but i am glad i read it and i will have her read it soon.

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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: Great Life Lesson
Review: this book is very emotional and sad.. It can teach one a lot though. I shows the downward life of taking drugs. and it shows it in a real way..The only thing that I wasn't pleased about with this book was the ending. It just sort of ends..with no real ending..but i (strongly) recommend it. I also recommend reading It Happened To Nancy. It is a very moving story.

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Summary: Go Ask Alice
Review: This book provides an incredibly raw and real look at teen drug usage and the in your face effects of peer pressure. I would definatly not reccomend this book for young children or anyone who would be easily frightened by this books intensity. This book made me a little weary with its continuous description of the effects of drugs and their effects, I had a headache after reading this strangley- compelling novel.