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Old 07-11-2005, 10:31 AM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #11
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Go Ask Alice is not the diary of a real teenage girl. Lookie.

I do own the book, and started reading it a couple of years ago. Never finished it, though. I guess it just didn't really grab me. Maybe I'll finish it some day.
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Old 07-11-2005, 04:01 PM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #12
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hmm interesting...... i really don't think that it's true though! i believe that its a diary from an anonymous author. by the way it's written, and how all over the place it is. i dunno. plus it's more interesting to read. that would suck if it was actually an author who wrote it :P

i just finished reading this book. it's great, amazing, wow. such an eye opener
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Old 07-12-2005, 03:48 PM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #13
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Go Ask Alice was the product of Beatrice Sparks, an author who has come out with a number of "teens who saw their lives ruined by their bad choices" offerings, each one presented as a true story, often in the form of a diary of an anonymous teen:
It Happened to Nancy (she's dying of AIDS)

Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, a Pregnant Teenager

Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (teen girl is sexually taken advantage of by a teacher)

Jay's Journal (yet another diary, this one of a teen boy who turns to satan worship and drug use)

Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets

Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (eating disorders)
The precise authorship of Go Ask Alice is still a bit of a mystery. Beatrice Sparks is presented as its editor rather than its author, and one tantalizing mention in a 1998 New York Times book review indicates the book might have been the work of several people:



the stories are still true and she knows the kids.... so part of the statement "the diary of an anyomous teenager a real diary" is true... but not the whole thing...... it's not an actual teen's diary.... bit it's based on teens lives that she's seen.... and heard stories from...

With the millions of books about the same subjects and professional addresses to all of these subjects, I'd have to say that even though its not a real diary.... it sound exactly like what one teens world would be like....

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Old 07-14-2005, 07:46 PM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #14
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I do own the book, and started reading it a couple of years ago. Never finished it, though. I guess it just didn't really grab me. Maybe I'll finish it some day.
Mmm, interesting....yet kind of dissapointing .
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Old 07-14-2005, 08:16 PM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #15
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It is a real diary, the girl's name isn't alice though.
Her mum came round to my school when i was in primary school and told us about how she had had to deal with the death of her daughter. She just didnt want the whole world knowing what her daughter's name was thats why it's an anonymous author. But it is a real diary...
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Old 08-24-2008, 01:28 AM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #16
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I remember reading this book during highschool. Sophomore year, I think. This book literally changed my life, and opened my eyes to see beyond the cardboard box that I lived in.

I'd give anything to read this profound, real, and genuine book again.
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Old 07-08-2009, 01:22 PM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #17
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I read this book in the seventh grade and can honestly say I have never experienced a better read... However, the book is completely false and was written by a middle aged psychiatrist aided by the government to write a fake diary to scare kids into not doing drugs....
Funny how the book had the opposite affect on me...
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Old 01-13-2011, 02:55 PM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #18
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I read that when I was in 7th grade. I liked it but it made me very sad to watch (in a sence) someone become compleety controled by drugs.

It was a very good book though. it was truthfull to the world of drugs
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Old 06-13-2011, 11:09 PM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #19
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I like the cover.
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Old 06-14-2011, 01:01 AM   Go Ask Alice [BOOK] Post #20
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^ How about the writing inside...? XD lol

I read this book on my own when I was 13, I think...I remember I stayed up all night reading it. I thuroughly loved it at the time. I was shocked to learn that it wasn't a real diary...I think the claim that it doesn't "sound" like how a 15-year-old girl would write is sort of rediculous; when I write in my journal, I tend to sound differently than when I speak, because I actually think differently than how I speak...but that's just me.

Anyway, I loved this book!
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