Third Quarter Outside Reading Book Review

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Simon & Schuster Inc., 1971
Genre: Autobiographical Novel [Diary]

Go Ask Alice is a book more or less about the life of a teenage girl which the books title refers to as Alice. She's an average female adolescent who has friends and crushes on boys. She also sees the dangers of drugs until one night changes everything. She attends a party and during the party, glasses of Coke were distributed, of which 14 contained an addictive drug, known as LSD. Unfortunately, Alice gets lucky and drinks from a contaminated drink. This would change her life forever. From then on, Alice makes decisions which effect her life as well.

"Through the diary entries we see this girl quickly escalate from her first drug experience to all manner of disaster." [Beatrice Sparks, who claims to have edited the book].

In the book, Alice writes about her life and problems she faces, events that occur, and so on. She writes in her diary almost everyday and labels the date for each entry. At some points, she takes a long period of time before writing again, which symbolizes the fact that a lot has been happening.

In the beginning of the diary, Alice would often defame people who used drugs, such as LSD or as a more common name, Acid. She wouldrefer to drug abusers as "dopers". It isn't too long before she becomes a doper herself. She also had a wide usage of profanity in the story and expression in the story. This often shows her emotion towards a subject.

"Thousands of other dead things and people were pushing me inside and forcing the lid down on me."

Tis book has opened my eyes to a lot of things. It shows me that some people get unlucky in specified situations, even without knowing. It wasn't until after that Alice discovers that her drink was laced with Acid. It's a dangerous world out there and no one's invincible to these types of situations. Anyone can be a victim. This diary made an impact on me, which is the type of book I like. The one that connects to real-life situations and is eye-opening. From reading this book, I know it's better to be safe than sorry.