Go Ask Alice

Reader reviewed by PINKY

This book was soooo good but my mom didn't like me reading it because she had read it when my older sister read it and since the subject matter was kinda a mature topic to think about she didn't want me reading it, but it was good. I definetly think they need to rasie the age from 12 to 14. This book made me cry.

Reader reviewed by Lara

this was one of my favorite books it was so good. I read it within about a day or two, even during church! it is definitaly a book that you can not put down until the end.

Reader reviewed by Rachelle

Go Ask Alice is an outstanding book written in diary form that captures the descent of a teenager caught up in a world of drugs. Alice didnt exactly fit in in her new school, so when she was offered an invite to a friends house, she eagerly went. It was then when she was introduced to a completely new world of drugs, which started innocently with LSD and progressively worsened until she realized that she was hurting herself and others. Go Ask Alice is a touching and moving story that all teenagers and their parents should read.
This book proves that if someone truly has the will to do something, they can do it. Alices diary is filled with honest and true feelings that any teenager can relate to. Through her experiences, Alice proves that adolescents have a very rocky and insecure time. Alice is your typical 15-year old who faces everyday peer pressure but does not resist the temptation. She starts out innocently until it becomes an addiction, where After youve had it, there isnt even life without drugs& Her diary is a harsh awakening into reality, and by reading it, you can learn through her mistakes not to follow the same path to self-destruction.
I would highly recommend this book to all teenagers and even their parents, and to anyone else that would enjoy and benefit from this horrific story of a teenager trapped in a world of drugs. Her powerful diary is a sad but real one, and its story of betrayal, loneliness, and addiction leaves her to confide all of her thoughts in her diary. This book accurately portrays reality and the challenges that many face daily. Its story will touch you, scare you, and teach you about the dangers of adolescence and the problems that an adolescent faces with drugs, friends, sex, and addiction.

Reader reviewed by bubble_girl

I would just like to say I have been doing alot of reading up about Mrs.Sparks and I have only found out.That in the past she has said that she did in fact write her in the book go ask alice.I have read that she did this because she did not want Alice's family to know what she really went threw.The thing about this is if this is true this is no real diary but unreal for the fact that she put in some or maybe all of the entries.

Reader reviewed by Hunter's girl

This is a true story of agirl named Alice.She does good in school all that junk.They move to a diffrent town she has a cupple friends.Then she goes tho stay with her grandparents for the summer.She see's one of the girl's she used to know she invints her to a party that's when crap happenes to Alice she stats drugs.This book will keep you on a trip.I love this book.I read it a lot of times.I really recomend it highly.

Reader reviewed by Donna Bun

Go ask Alice is a book written in a dairy formatted form. In this book Alice explains her life on which she dealt with alcohol, sex, drugs, and crime. In her diary she writes of all her thoughts, hopes, happiness, dreams, fears, guilt, and pain. We are able to explore her life throughout this diary and discover the result of her chosen life.

Reader reviewed by MEL

DEALING WITH A SIBLING WITH SIMILAR PROBLEMS, I THINK THAT THIS BOOK IS VERY REAL AND IT IS A HARD DOSE OF REALITY. PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR THEIR ADDICTIONS AND THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE SEEN THAT SHOWS THAT.

Reader reviewed by N. Fox

I'm actually writing this in response to the review given by L. Eustace.

I think they skimmed over a good portion of the book. Alice was never "quite popular", in fact she was an outcast. She made some friends with a FEW people like herself over time. The first party she went to consisted of people who weren't really her friends, and the people she became close with later in the book were loners like herself.

Also, to call a young woman's problems trite is ridiculous. Sometimes "simplicity" as you call it is all it takes to bring forth an important message.

I found the book fascinating, especially during the long detailed descriptions of her trips. I couldn't put the book down when she was at her lowest and writing a bunch of stuff that didn't make sense...I so wanted to know what was going on, and I couldn't make much out of it until it was explained later when she went back home.

I think it is an important message, a book that is needed to be addressed in the education of young people.

Reader reviewed by Misty

This book was great! You have to read it in the mindset of a 15 year old. I'm close to getting my degree to teach English, and we are now learning about all of the controversial books, when this book came up. I decided to read it, and I hope to be able to present this to a classroom.

I have never tried any type of drug, and this gave me an idea of what it might be like to experience that. I can't imagine ever going through the things this girl went through. Whether this diary is real or not, I believe it's a good book to turn curious teens off of drugs. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in reading it!

Reader reviewed by Andrea Schrimsher

It was very good book. It caught my attention because of the way it told how teenagers are faced with the pressure of using drugs. In my point of view, I think that this book should be read by all teenagers so they can get a good hard dose of reality.