Comments on: Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (But Not Really Anonymous)

By: kam

kam — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:58:13 +0000

i read this book ang i love it i was mad when half way through i found it was based on a song not real person but i still liked it alot and it tought me alot of things to do and not to do

By: lala

lala — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:02:36 +0000

i just got done reading the book and it was good but i felt so stupid cuz i thought it was a real diary till i heard it wasnt.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:58:32 +0000

I understand the conspiracy of “Go Ask Alice” being false or not, to me at the time when i read it at 15 (now being 19 years old) I found the book very inviting and understanding through some of the things I was going through myself. Although I chose to do the things I did, the book opens your mind to what 14 year olds Can do instead of can’t. Yes the vocabulary was high at times but the descriptions of one high which you used, that is something I feel a lot of teenagers can do, its the way you felt and flowed with it. I let my mom read my journals and i got out of rehab and she flipped, not knowing I could write like that or do half the things i wrote. I believe this book if not real is to open the mind of the reader to have a better understanding. And i don’t think this book is bad for a 5th grade class from seeing 9 year olds outside school doing drugs, smoking and anything they can get there hands on.

By: fabiola

fabiola — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:03:58 +0000

i just re-read thi sbook last night, finished in 2 hours i think.
i read it back in teh 6th grade and it became my favorite, not becaus eof what it said beccause i did think it wasnt real but because of the style of writting. the way “the girl” expressed herself and what not. so yea, i researched it and i was right back in teh day that it was fake, its still my favorite though.
and i wann awrite a book about my life but i wann amake it anonymous. but, would that make people believe that it is fiction?

By: MTK

MTK — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:22:06 +0000

I read this book when I was a teenage (late80s-early 90s) and It scared the crap out of me. I never understood why it was a banned book because it really helped to put the fear of God in me about drug use. Fiction or not, the story could be beneficial to many teenagers. Finding out that it was not really a true diary was a bit of a downer, but still it is very powerful reading.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:38:04 +0000

did you grow up in that generation? have you taken such drugs that are mentioned in this book? i am assuming not because most people on drugs can write like that so i think that it very much could be real

By: khadra

khadra — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:11:37 +0000

well i thought the book was intersting even though i read in my teenage year. It was intersting and helped me get through things that was complicated…. well even though it was fake cries….. i thought it was intersting!!!!

By: Carlyn

Carlyn — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:36:18 +0000

I just read this book last night and thought it was a real diary throughout the entire thing. Although many things seemed strange to me, like how she never spoke about withdrawal and never gave details about any personal experiences that didn’t relate to drugs. I still believed it to be real because I seriously have not heard anything about it not being real. I cried many times during this book because I always knew she would not make it in the end, and I became really emotionally attached to this character. At the end when it says she died, I was really upset and confused. She was doing so well, I couldn’t understand it. So I had to find out more details and searched the internet for information about “Alice”, I feel completely duped. I would have still read it if I had known it was mostly fiction, I would have still felt emotionally attached to “Alice”, and I still do. But I kept thinking how horrible it was that this had happened to someone. I mean being put into a mental hospital when you’re not even crazy? I know someone that has had that happen to them. When he was a kid he was diagnosed schizophrenic and put into a mental hospital, when really there was nothing wrong with him. I don’t know details because he refuses to talk about it and he’s 23 now. Although I feel completely fooled, I’m a little relived because the story is truly horrific and I couldn’t get past the fact that she got better and three weeks later died. Also, bad thing after bad thing happened to her. I know lives are ruined by the use of drugs, however it’s like the author took experiences from different people and put all the worst ones together to create “Alice’s” story for the ultimate drug horror story.
I also just want to comment on how some people say they never believed the story because “Alice’s” words were too poetic and or too intelligent. I’m not picking on anyone; I agree the book was very extreme in the vocabulary. However some teens are very much like “Alice”. My little sister is 14 years old and does talk like “Alice” I am 18 and I she has even stumps me with some of the words she uses. She among most girls her age are also very poetic. I’ve seen her artwork and read her poems and I remember when I was that age, most of their girls I knew wrote songs, poems, ect that were so very beautiful. I myself have a book full of poems that I wrote from when I was younger. Many girls just write corny poems about crushes yes, but I remember so many girls wrote beautiful descriptions of issues in their lives. Whether it was a broken heart, family problems or about struggles with drug use, their poems and songs were amazing. I just wanted to mention that because a lot of people seem to think that a 15 year old girl would be incapable of writing the way “Alice” has seemed to have done. I think young teens can be the most poetic of all because everything hits them so hard. They are so passionate about the things in their lives and although there are not many, there are a number of teens that have a vocabulary similar to “Alice’s”.
That’s all I’m going to say, I feel duped but I’m still glad I read the book. When my younger sister turns 15 I will give her it to read. I will tell her it’s mostly fiction though because I feel you can still have a similar effect without being tricked. If there really is a real Diary I really wish they just published the original. I would like to find out the real girl’s story. But I guess that’s not the point. The point is that drugs have claimed many young people’s lives and that many of the events in the story have been experienced by other people. I want my sister to read it not to scare her away from drugs, but just so she understands the different things that can happen to different people. Like I mentioned before I think “Alice’s” story is a combination of different drug stories. Whether the author did that on purpose or not, those types of things do happen to people who have suffered from drugs.

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:15:24 +0000

After reding this book it spoke to me on alot of different levels of my persona… It spoke to me about the real dangers that drugs can do to real people or fictional if this book is not by an acutual teenager…however on a maturity level after reding it has matured me alot and made me realize that some little things can become huge if not taken seriously and can sometimes end up in the worst places possible no matter where that place is

By: bree

bree — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:39:05 +0000

this book I first read when I was 12 since then till now (29) I have read it atleast 10 times. I could relate easily back then as I was going through very similar problems & it really helped me to make better choices & maybe evan enjoy myself. Clearly the authur has done her research as the view from a young girl can be just as! I read it recently & being a mother now can see it differently (on the other side of the fence) & am greatful as I will very much try not to ignor the obvious problems that teens hide & are ashamed of. fake or not it resembles MANY real life stories evan down to the poetic writting skills (that are not that unlikely in a 14yr old girl believe it or not) All in all I will be giving my daughter this book when she becomes a teen!