Go Ask Alice | 
 enlarge | Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 3879
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1416914633
EAN: 9781416914631
ASIN: 1416914633
Publication Date: December 27, 2005
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Product Description
January 24thAfter you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs.... It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful -- and as timely -- today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.
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 we get it already... June 24, 2008
There seem to be a lot of reviews written for this book bashing it. We get it...you're angry that this is a work of fiction and isn't, in all actuality, a true, bona fide account. Unfortunately for you, you will find that most books contain fiction.
Yes the book says that teenagers shouldn't do drugs or get pregnant. I see nothing wrong with this message (although I will admit that the author could have gone about it in a different way). Yes, the book seems to fit all drug addict stereotypes, and yes it insinuates that LSD and marijuana can be addicting. NEWSFLASH! They are called stereotypes because a large amount of people FIT INTO THEM...and although drugs such as LSD and marijuana aren't physically addicting, they are mentally addicting.
Overall, this book is a good read and sends a sensible (if somewhat cookie-cutter, brainwashy) message.
P.S. Just because books aren't "literary classics" doesn't mean that they aren't good books. Maybe some people should be glad that people are reading anything at all, or even writing anything at all, rather than gripe about WHAT is being read or written...
Thumbs up. June 22, 2008
Definitely a book that evokes emotions and can be related to in some at least distant way, shape or form by most individuals. It's a quick and easy read, so even if one doesn't like it, he/she can't really regret reading it.
Timeless diary - and a challenge for todays teen June 16, 2008
Yes, this is a work of fiction as others point out. Yes, it's an older book (...what no raiding of the parents drug cabinets? noone knew sudafed could be used for anything but a sinus infection? Had it even been invented?? Heck, people wouldn't even know what a "cutter" was then, and Karen Carpenter had yet to die and make anorexia an everyday term, no cell phones, texts or ipods mentioned??...) And yet, still...
Still, this could be the diary of any teen today that finds themselves in the grip of life beyond their control (and perhaps there's every reason to believe it's harder to control than ever)- and unable to reclaim it. It's a timeless theme, and it's well-written to stand that test of time. I challenge any teen to read it --- knowing it was written in their parent's day - and not find that in some ways the world hasn't changed.
White Rabbit June 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book in school when I was 15 years old and I just had to have a copy for myself.
To anyone that has ever had a brush with the drug world as a teenager and lived throught it...THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU !!!
 Umm...Yeah April 29, 2008
Wow...
So I was forced to read this book for a mother daughter book club and besides the fact that I was scared out of my wits, I think that it was a pretty good book. It isn't anything that I would ever pick up on my own, but there are definitely people out there that would like it. If you enjoy books like Perfect, or Drowning Anna, I would recommend it. If you are the sort of person who would rather read about things that are happy, or can't read creapy things before going to sleep, then this is NOT the book for you!
I would say that overall it an ok book, especially if you are in a group so you can discuss the contents. Also, don't read the epilogue!! It is completely depressing, I don't know why the author added it.
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