Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 05 2003 @ 05:43 AM

This book is a fraud, often foisted upon unsuspecting teenagers as
non-fiction. Sparks has admitted that there is no Alice, that the diary is
cobbled together from her experiences with teens. Even as fiction it has
little credibility among teens with critical thinking skills, since the book's
premise asks the reader to suspend disbelief long enough to accept that
someone can go from being unwittingly dosed at a party to shooting
heroin intravenously within a space of a few weeks.

Another of Sparks' works, Jay's Journal, has also been questioned for its
authenticity. It likewise suffers from the same hyperbolic narrative which
teens able to get past the occult sensationalism will recognize as a
middle-aged woman trying to scare the heck out of them. Pay no
attention to the man behind the curtain. . .

For more go to http://www.jeffcrooke.com/lit/litalice.html.

Jeff Crooke

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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 07 2004 @ 05:01 PM

im doing a report on this novel for school because i am really intrested and amaized.. is there any way you can tell me more aboutAlice and her family im dieing to know!!

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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 13 2004 @ 08:14 AM

How do you know that it is fiction?maybe she only put important parts in the book?

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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 28 2004 @ 07:58 AM

If you don't think "someone can go from being unwittingly dosed at a
party to shooting heroin intravenously within a space of a few weeks" I
encourage you to get some drug education. I've been in the business for
over 20 years and have seen this kind of rapid progression numerous
times. There is even some recent research that indicates that addiction
can be immediate for some folks upon first use.
I have also used this book with teens over the years and have found it to
be an excellent teaching tool when used with some informed guidance.
Please don't add to the confusion about Go Ask Alice with even more
naivete.

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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 30 2004 @ 09:16 AM

I liked this book, and even if there was no Alice, teens all around America do do the things that Alice did. Teens get high on drugs or drunk and get crucially raped, are lost in a reality world, and have mixed feelings about their sexuality. I thought this book portrayed an excellent job of a little girl who met the wrong people and completely ruined her life. Beatrice Sparks did an awesome job if she made this up!!

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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 09 2004 @ 12:35 PM

I think this book was very lame. It was cliched beyond belife. Yes drugs are bad, I've used my fair share of them. Along with my friends, and though there are various degrees of what happens to users. '

I think "Go ask alice" is a simply tactic to scare and frighten kids into not using drugs and the dangers of what happened. I highly doubt this book contains any realness to it. Despite the drugs and trips. It sounded like a bad movie the 60's written by someone old enough to have grown up in the hippie era of life. That listened to Jefferson airplanes "White Rabbit" one to many times!

I give the book a 4

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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

Authored by: xLilxDivax on Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 10:31 PM

I totally love this book. It effects my life.. As in I was like Alice... Used drugs, got drunk. and I hope my kid(s) don't act like I did. Nor Alice.
Thanx,
Giminii Wilson.

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Authored by: xLilxDivax on Wednesday, April 27 2005 @ 10:36 PM

Uhm, Again, I give this book on a scale of 1 to 10 I give it 10 all the way. It wasn't lame. But people have their own opionins.
Thanx Again,
Giminii Wilson.

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Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Beatrice Sparks (Editor)

Authored by: brittany on Sunday, July 17 2005 @ 03:53 AM

how can you sit there and say that this book is not that good. you cant relate the story to you or anybody when i read it, it sounded as if i wrote it myself. ?have you ever heard of a siciatric hospital? if you do alot of people there can also relate but that is my opion and you have yours

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