Go ask Alice by Annoymous

A Review from Barnes and Noble:Alice is your typical teenaged girl. She worries that she is too fat. She wants a boyfriend: "I wish I were popular and beautiful and wealthy and talented." She frequently makes resolutions in her diary to do better in school, work toward a calmer relationship with her mother, and lose weight. Her life changes when she goes to a party and is given acid in her drink. She loves the feeling the drug gives her: "Closed my eyes and the music began to absorb me physically. I could smell it and touch it and feel it as well as hear it." She wants more and quickly becomes a part of the drug scene. For about a year and a half Alice goes on and off drugs and runs away from home twice. Each time she manages to find her way back to her parents. They take her in, get her help, and all seems to be rosy until Alice is once again given acid without her knowledge. This time, she has a bad trip, ends up in the hospital, and then a mental hospital. Her parents stick by her, but her life of drug abuse ultimately ends with a fatal overdose—whether it is intentional or accidental is not known. Go Ask Alice has become a classic story of warning against the use of drugs. For the teen scene of 2006, this story will appear as slightly dated. The issues of relationships both in and out of school have not changed much in the last thirty years, but there are subtle differences in the culture that may prove distracting for a young person reading this book today. The basic story remains a chilling cautionary tale. 2005 (orig. 1971), Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster, , and Ages 14 to 18.

My Review:

Go ask Alice tackled a very serious issue. Drugs- the affect it has on you and what it could do to a person. Alice in the beginning was a normal girl, she wasn't popular, she wasn't extremely smart, she was mediocre. Which to her, wasn't that good.

Alice went shopping into a store when she bumps into a very popular girl in school. They start talking and, just like that Alice is invited to one of her exclusive parties. Alice has never been to one of these events. Alice doesn't know that in this new environment people can slip Acid (a very addictive drug) into your drink without you knowing, and alice happens to drink a coca cola that is infected. She is now addicted to this drug, wanting more and more and finds herself going down a downward spiral that has her life hanging by a small thread. Her life will never be the same again...

Go ask Alice was a great novel. I was recommended to read it by a friend who wanted to make sure I would NEVER touch drugs in my life. I wasn't planning to, but after reading this book I hope to actually help those who are not strong enough to say no to this terrible disease. Because Alice had a great comfortable life, no trouble, loving parents, not that many friends but she at least had some. But because Alice felt the need to be popular she fell off track, and even towards the middle-end when she tried to stop, she could'nt. Alice helped me understand that it wasn't cool, that even though sometimes you might think that your parents and adults might seem to be nagging and lecturing you, that in the end they are actually trying to protect and keep you away from ruining your future. Maybe Alice should've listened...

Go ask Alice is based on a real life girl's battle with drugs. It is a very strong book and I would NOT recommend it for those who are sensitive readers. At some points I could not keep reading because of the distrubing actions and revelations Alice had to go through. This is all written in a diary so everything is uncensored and everything she wrote is what actually happened to her. (Though there have been rumors that the author did make up some parts of the story, Beatrice Sparks the editor claims that she only did it to make it more realistic.)

Either way, I feel mixed about evaluating the book so..

This book is

Worth reading

and

Not Worth reading...

Let me explain, this book is Worth reading if you have tough-skin when it comes to books and it is Not worth reading if you are a soft kind of reader.

personally I give it

4 stars