Go Ask Alice [Kindle Edition] Author: Anonymous | Language: English | ISBN:
B000FC0PA8 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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COULD BE ANYONE.
Alice
COULD BE SOMEONE YOU KNOW.
Alice
USES DRUGS.
With over a million copies in print, Go Ask Alice has become a classic of our time. This powerful real-life diary of a teenager's struggle with the seductive -- often fatal -- world of drugs and addiction tells the truth about drugs in strong and authentic voice. Tough and uncompromising, honest and disturbing -- and even more poignant today -- Go Ask Alice is page-turning and provocative reading. Direct download links available for Go Ask Alice Epub Free
- File Size: 280 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0689817851
- Publisher: Simon Pulse; Reprint edition (July 13, 1999)
- Sold by: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000FC0PA8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,011 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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In all fairness, it would be wise of me to acknowledge that I know the public is becoming increasingly aware that _Go Ask Alice_ is not, in fact, written by the book's protagonist, but rather by one Dr. Beatrice Sparks (whose own undoing came later in the form of her 'editorial' involvement with the utterly ludicrous _Jay's Journal_). Any halfway decent book review should be about the content of the book and not the author's quasi-surreptitious lifestyle; however, the nature of _Go Ask Alice_ makes this separation nearly impossible.
The _Go Ask Alice_ story, when broken down to its core, is relatively believable: an undistinguished girl in high school falls in with the druggie crew at her school, ends up dropping out and running away, and gets trampled underfoot in the grand machine of society. If Sparks would have stuck to her guns and attempted to write this book in a voice that her protagonist might actually have used, then the book itself would have been somewhat more passable when approached from the "literary validity" standpoint. However, Dr Sparks is incapable of a) writing without being often-ridiculously preachy, and b) making matters worse by attempting to weave said preachiness into the Alice character through her reactions to incomprehensibly melodramatic situations. For example, Alice, when babysitting, consumes some candy in her babysittees' house. Miraculously, the candy is revealed to have been laced with acid by her hell-bent-on-corruption druggie pals who have nothing to do with the babysittees, and would have had to break into the house with the sole intent of lacing the specific candy (which they knew Alice would eat) with acid, then sneak back out without having left any signs of their involvement.
I don't mind people liking this book or gaining something from this book, but many of the adult reviewers here seem hellbent on promoting this book as either as either a major literary work or as an actual diary depicting the horrors of teen drug abuse. It is neither. I think it does potential readers, especially teen readers a true disservice to promote this book in either way. If you're doing this, you are not being honest.
It is NOT a real diary. It simply is not. It is a work of fiction created by Sparks. She continued this path - soap opera in diary form in a full-out series of books warning teens about the consequences of bad behavior. Don't believe me? Go to the Snopes Web site (you know, the one that confirms or dispells urban legends, rumors and out-and-out lies?) and read about Go Ask Alice. The researchers there confirmed that It is a work of FICTION written by SPARKS (not "Anonymous") as if it were a real diary. I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing, as long as teens aren't being told this is a girl's real diary. That would be a lie. I don't believe in lying to teens, regardless of how noble you think the cause. Interesting note - Sparks, who is now in her eighties - was (maybe still is, I don't know) a member of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints church. She wrote books that promoted the values of her church (obey your parents, clean living, etc.) - she just seemed to forget that annoying little commandment "Thou Shalt Not Lie." Apparently, there was even a 1979 musical inspired by "Alice" follow-up "Jay's Journal" that focuses on Spark's promoting fiction as fact, taking advantage of "Jay's" family (there actually was a "Jay," but most of the book about him was fiction) to enhance her own career, etc.
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