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Go Ask Alice

Young Adult Fiction 229

HORRIBLE

August 08, 2009

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1.0

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Reader reviewed by moonymaster

Warning: SPOILERS ALERT

GOD.. I REALLY HATED THIS BOOK. When I first had finished it I thought it was OK... I thought about what had happened in the book. It basically consisted of her doing drugs and getting messed up, kinda getting better, doing more drugs and getting even more messed up, kinda getting better again, then DYING. It kinda just depressed me and its not that great of a story but I felt that it would be messed up for me to say that I didn't like this book because it was a true story of a girl's diary entries. But then, I thought to myself, is this book really true? The editors note said it was and it did seem like it was someone's diary but the story itself just seemed too... I don't know... RIDICULOUS. So I decided to look in the small tiny black print on the copyright page of the book. And there it was at the very top.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the authors imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

And that is when this book made my Most Hated Books Of ALL-TIME List . Just think about. Now knowing that this book isn't true tells us that some author thought it would be a good idea to really get it into kids brains that drugs are bad. And yeah I get it, once you tell some middle school class to read this book for English, I think they'd be scared out of their wits. But is it really fair to make up this horrible and depressing story about some innocent girl who seemed normal enough, but then ends up ruining her entire life completely based off of her drug use? I have not respect for the people who wrote and published this book. This is the worst form of propaganda. They basically lie to the readers of this book telling them that this is a true story and this is what happens if you do drugs and that is why you shouldn't. The only thing they forget to tell these horrified readers is its a load of Bull Poop (for lack of a better term)