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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous MAG
“This will be a good trip. Come on, relax, enjoy it.” This is how it started. Alice, once a shy, innocent girl, is sucked into the heartless world of drugs because of her need to be accepted. She did not plan for this to happen; she didn’t even know it was happening, but the people who drugged her drink unknowingly began the whirlpool that would soon trap Alice. The first culprit? A soda, laced with LSD.
Alice is a 15-year-old with long straight hair and a passion for the beauty of life. After that fateful day, however, her mood – whether wild, funny, happy, loving, depressed, or lonely – depends on drugs. Though drugs, or lack thereof, change Alice’s way of thinking, all she really wants is to be happy and loved; isn’t that what we all want?
After Alice is secretly drugged at a party, she awakens to the exciting adventure that life seems to have become. She starts experimenting with other hard drugs and begins to lose her sanity and grip on reality. Even after deciding to quit the drug scene, it seems as if the curse (which started as a game) will always be present in her life and ultimately cause her death.
I would recommend this book to teens and adults. I think it should be required reading in high schools. Since this is about a teen struggling with addiction and the social pressures of the drug world, it is a real eye-opener to anyone who is already struggling and for those who may be confronted with the option to use.
This book is extremely intense and opens the reader’s mind to the devastating effects of drugs. The main character describes her “trips” in such vivid and realistic detail that her story comes alive.
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I mean there's a couple of things that bothered me, but I didn't dwell on them. Mostly the narrator's use of the word "homo", in describing certain characters. The characters weren't good at all, but the homophobia is still there. You can chalk it up to the sixties/seventies era the book takes place in, but it doesn't make it less bothersome (in my opinion). However, it's not a large enough part in the story that you dwell on it.
No, the real problems I have with this book are those that lie in its message. Our author, a troubled soul, relapses on drugs a few times. She ends up in a terrible place, and lives in a world of pain and unreality. Yet, she comes back multiple times to a loving family. She finds strength in them- strength to live and succeed. Strength to go on in life.
She finds all of this, and it seems as though you're being left with a tale of redemption. No matter what obstacles you have in life, there is hope for you. If you find love in others, they will help you. The message seems to be that there's a silver lining to life, no matter your past.
Now, spoilers ahead.
She leaves the readers with a sense of hope about her. The narrator ends her last diary entry telling us that she won't buy another. That, while it helped her so much, she feels she's moved on. And that she has the strength to fight through whatever life gives her.
Then, in big bold print, the epilogue bluntly states that the author died three weeks after that last entry; either by her own hand on accident, or by another's. Either way, it was a DRUG overdose, and the OBVIOUS moral of the story is that drugs will ruin your life and there's no hope and blah blah blah blah. It doesn't matter, not her recovery, or her sadness, or her happiness. What matters is that she's dead and it's because of drugs.
For a book that could've meant so much more? This rather disgusted me. It was blunt and uncaring. It was too shocking and blunt to even process. It felt phony in comparison to the blunt honesty and care the author put into each of her entries.
This book used a scare-tactic to push its agenda. Do drugs and you die. End point. To put it into words I truly feel: it was pretty dumb, and I feel totally cheated.
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