Go Ask Alice - Anonymous

Go Ask Alice

By Anonymous

  • Release Date: 1999-07-13
  • Genre: Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 1,251 Ratings)

Description

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale.

January 24th
After 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.

Reviews

  • Loved and still do!

    5
    By dlmt88
    First time I read it I was like 16 and loved it. Kept me on the edge wanting to keep reading more and more I couldn’t drop it. Very enjoyable read though it’s not a happy book it’s pretty raw and it plays well into emotions. Don’t let others reviews get u down on it specially like the one that says he doesn’t even know the drugs they are talking about even though he’s parents are lifelong junkies. If you don’t understand a slang just google it goddamnit (sorry saw a bunch a squares saying they can’t take the word goddamn so I wanted to use it). It’s an easy read pretty short and doesn’t go far off topic just to make it longer. Trust me u will like it 5/5.

  • Go ask Alice

    2
    By Diamond ale to
    I’m not even half way through the book and bought it two weeks ago, usually I finish a book within one weekend. This book is a big jumbled mess. It jumps around so much I don’t even know what’s she’s talking about sometimes and then there’s the horrible labeling of “drugs” in this book that I don’t even know what they are except for weed and I’m 24 years old with parents who have been addicts my entire life! The next problem with this book … every other word is god d**n I hate that word and it makes me cringe just reading it. I keep hoping it gets better but I’m disappointed so far the reviews I have read from this book are so miss leading.

  • Don’t buy

    1
    By johohnwayne
    Was just the open title page. Not the book.

  • Aged like a fine milk

    1
    By Gingergirlgg
    I read this when I was in high school in study hall. I only read halfway through before the period ended, and I never got a chance to pick it up again. I really wanted to continue because I was hooked. I would go to the library periodically to see about finding it without luck. When the world ended in 2020, I got a chance to finally get it and finish it. It has not aged well at all. The anti drug message is loud and clear. Very loud. To the point of the story feeling like it was written by an edge lord. I’d pass on this one.

  • 70’s drug propaganda

    1
    By mart2121
    The book seems not based on actual experience

  • Very unfortunate

    5
    By biggtittyb
    This book make me feel some type of way. She was very well spoken for her age, and her parents were nice people. She seemed to always try and do better for herself, it’s unfortunate it just had to end like that.

  • Amazing

    5
    By nels2714
    This book was literally painful to read, but so worth it. I read this at 12, probably should have waited a year or two but the hate is unneeded. This book is spectacular and I suggest it to anyone wanting to ‘feel something’ when they read their next book.

  • Recommended

    5
    By yulengj
    Read this book when I was a teenager and it’s one of my favorites

  • Amazing story

    5
    By Atl97jackbissexy
    Read this when I was 14, read it again now at age 22. Still as compelling as I remember. Really resonates with you.

  • A FAKE book

    1
    By Indiana Goof
    All this time later, and STILL Beatrice Sparks’s embarrassingly fake book gets treated as fact?! Why read and support this trash when there are so many genuinely reliable accounts of drug abuse published?

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