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A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.

Read Go Ask Alice James Jennings Beatrice Sparks 9780380005239 Books

"I first read Go Ask Alice when I was in middle school. My sister asked me to buy it for her~ so I did. I thought it'd be kind of boring now that I'm 56 yrs old. I was wrong!! It is even more meaningful to me now! I work with the public and see a LOT of drug addicted people. This book is so worth-the-read for every young person. I highly suggest reading this book!!"

Product details Age Range 12 and up Grade Level 10 - 12 Lexile Measure 930L (What's this?) Paperback 189 pages Publisher Avon Books; Rare Hardcover Edition edition (September 1, 1991) Language English ISBN-10 0380005239

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Go Ask Alice James Jennings Beatrice Sparks 9780380005239 Books Reviews :

Go Ask Alice James Jennings Beatrice Sparks 9780380005239 Books Reviews

• Kind of wavered between giving this two or three stars, but there were parts I liked so I went with three. My boyfriend recommended this because he remembered reading it in middle school and thought it was awesome, though he did add as an after thought that he wasn't sure if he'd still like it or not. He's not a reader, so I figured it must be pretty good. After finishing it I realized that, had I read this in middle school, I probably would have loved it as well. Reading it now though, I can't say the same.
  
  First off, I'm gonna say that you can't go into this thinking it was actually a real diary because it just simply is not. It's been ripped apart by people saying a teenage girl would normally ramble on more about boys and idle chit chat, but in the books defense who would actually read it then? It's clear it's not real, but let's be honest with the exception of Anne Frank, no one is interested in a reading a teenage girls diary.
  
  It does have it's ups and downs, and I did get attached to the main character, but so many times I found myself wondering where it was actually going. It gets near the end and she's doing good and I was just happy with how things were working out for her. Then, in the last entry she just kind of adds, as an after thought, that she doesn't think she'll keep a diary forever because adults don't need to, even though she makes it clear she doesn't feel like an adult yet. Really just out of no where she mentions adults don't need to write in diaries and suddenly she's done. It felt like the author (Beatrice Sparks) wasn't sure how to end it/ got sick of writing and just kinda tossed that in there. And then there's the epilogue. And you're left with a, "where did that come from?" feeling. Again, she didn't work it in very well, and jumped from one extreme to the next.
  
  This may be a spoiler so if you really don't want to spoil the ending don't read this part, but after the book ended I could think of only one thing. If you've ever seen the movie Mean Girls, during the sex ed. classes the gym teacher says "Don't have sex, you WILL get pregnant, and you WILL die." I feel like Beatrice Sparks is that gym teacher's mother. "Don't do drugs, you WILL die." That's really how sporadic the ending felt for me.
  
  All in all, I didn't hate it, but it could've been done a lot better.
• Tedious. Preachy. Obviously fiction. This may have worked to scare kids into not using drugs in the 1970s; I hope no one is relying on it to do that today. Basically, it’s a quaint, naive relic from the beginning of the “war on drugs.” I did give it an extra star in recognition of the fact that it probably read better decades ago than it does today.
• I first read Go Ask Alice when I was in middle school. My sister asked me to buy it for her~ so I did. I thought it'd be kind of boring now that I'm 56 yrs old. I was wrong!! It is even more meaningful to me now! I work with the public and see a LOT of drug addicted people. This book is so worth-the-read for every young person. I highly suggest reading this book!!
• Another book from my childhood re-read recently. I did enjoy revisiting this as an adult, simply because it actually is a pretty funny book. Alice, the young protagonist/narrator has a drug problem, and goes from trying a bit of pot to hitchhiking to California and living in a drug pad with some nefarious junkies pretty quickly (yes, because it's really an Anti-Drug propaganda book written to sound like a young girl's diary).
  It was entertaining, I love how almost every one of her sentences is punctuated by the word "man" and how she gets "caught up" in the drug world and laments about how much she hates not being high on drugs. It's not going to stop anyone from trying drugs, but Go Ask Alice is an interesting look at what adults in the 1970s thought their teenage children were up to, and the "Reefer Madness" of its generation.
• Pretty good, I don’t usually read books that were written like a journal but I heard good thinks about it. It was a real page turner and kept you interested the whole time. The ending make you extremely happy until you flip the page and then find out what happens 3 weeks later. I sat there pissed off after I closed the book so the next day I looked up blogs about the book to get more information and I was extremely disappointed to find out that the book was actually fiction. At first the book left me feeling shocked that this was a true story and I totally believed everything I read and then when I found out it was fake It just makes the you feel like you were lied to. The ending pissed me off but finding out it was all fake pissed me off even more.