Go Ask Alice

has anyone read this book? and if so, what are your thoughts?

 

it has been much discussed over at the books forum...
it is alleged to be the diary of a young girl found after her disintegration through exposure to the drug subculture...
it was in fact a "warning to our youth" novel written by a concerned (?) adult back in the 60s...
the writing style & theme are not typical of those common to your basic troubled youth of the 60s, and the events are also considered unrealistic by those who lived through the era...

you could do a websearch per the books veracity, if you were so inclined...
(think of it as a semi-updated book version of "reefer madness" heh...)


ymmv...

 

first time ive seen a bluelighter around these parts.

 

I think it's a bunch of crap. I think they MIGHT have used certain entries from a possibly real girl who wrote abou her drug use.

But even if they did use real entries, not all of it is true. THis story is made up to scare kids away from drugs. C'mon. How many DARE cliches are in that book? Selling acid to kids in grade school? Going from taking acid the first time, to allowing to be shot up with speed the next day? Running away and becoming homeless? Getting dirty acid?

It's bullshit intended to brainwash our kids.

 

I would say its a bunch of crap too... But everyone i know who read it was never frightened away from drugs by reading it.. so they didnt do to good of job there.. I remeber reading it when i was about 14 and wanting to run away and party

 

yeah man for sure... that book made taking drugs, especially psychs seem a lot more fun. I would just think "i just wouldn't do all the stupid shit she did". that book actually taught me more how and where not to do drugs, and when i take acid now, i am very responsible about it (you can take my word for it).

 

I liked the movie Go Ask Alice, I first seen the movie after i was already an experienced LSD user!

I remember every time i seen the move on TV, it gave me the craving, to take LSD. I get the same feeling everytime i hear the song Dr Mr Fantasy, too! Remember when Alice drank the pop and started coming on to the LSD while she was looking at her hand.

I duno, i'm getting a craving now. Maybe cuz i'm a little dyslexic, is why i think/felt the opposite of what this movie intended to teach. hmm
Memories arr:H

 

i'm reading it right now, and it's making me want to expiriment with physchedelic drugs and learn about them. haha

 

its a load of bullshit, really.

 

I liked the book and read it twice when I was fourteen, and yes it made me want to use drugs which was the opposite of the intention of the author who also wrote "Jason" about a barbituate taking satanist, and a couple other books.

When I was young - in the seventies, the cops used to bring cases to schools in LA filled with a sample of every drug. For a fifth or sixth grader they all looked like exotic candy. Those stay away from drugs lectures from the cops were the single greatest influence on my deciding to take them. The cops made them sound extremely esoteric and fun. And then health class in sixth grade they discussed each drug in turn. I was like, wowow, this is for me!

I watched "Richie" on TV with Robbie Benson and I liked the way the ground was always sideways as he walked (signs of barb use). It's all fucked.

The New American Order has it right. Just don't ever say anything about drugs. Denial. Then less people even have a clue.

Of course, there's more info and connections now via the internet than ever before. When I was young when I wanted to score I had to go hang out with the "bad kids" and so I became one.

 

I liked the book. I read it when I was 15, 16 maybe. It didnt scare me away from drugs, but I never had any interest in LSD until after I read it. For me it pretty much taught me what not to do while taking acid.

 

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107910

there ya go

 

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp

There ya go, snopes to the rescue!

 

Wow, I never really thought that it might be made up. I guess I'm just naive and too believing....


But, I read it a year or two ago when I was in a real bad place in my life. Kinda like the girl in the book, but nothing even close to that extreme. But it never made me quit drugs or anything. It did make me think bout a lotta shit tho....


Damn I feel really fuckin stupid now that I think of all the cliches and totally unbelievable shit in that book that I didnt notice. Oh well, I was fucked up half the time I was readin that book anyway. Or maybe Im just gullible...?

 

When I read the book at skool it made me want to take drugs! Any way Love and Peace.

 

i red it when i was like 13, in french (they name of the book in french is: herbe bleu--blue herb, i hate like they translate the name of some books i musted searched in the web "go ask alice" to figure out what's the book)


it didnt scared me of drugs at all, it was the opposite lol

 

i don't think it was crap, things like that DO happen, weither we admit it or not. Sure, i'll give that it might have been edited, but the basis is still there, drugs can do this to you. It depends on the person, who you are and what you're made of, not every one will fall into that deep addiction, but it can happen, and i think that was the message of the book. I don't think it was meant to "scare" kids, it was meant to educate them. I read it, and it never scared me away from drugs, although it did to some extent teach me to know boundaries.

 

the book is full of shit and whats more its so depressing it actually isnt realistic any more coz she reacts to situations in strange ways..... she actually says at one point that acid is addictive this too after just a couple of years of experience, if its real then its the diary of an insecure teenager the type who did drugs for all the wrong reasons

 

i agree it did get kind of depressing...
but this is like one of my favorite books. I love to just chill in my room, listen to music, smoke my bong & read my favorite parts.. like when she's describing her first acid trip... and when she runs away there are some good parts... this is definitely wat sparked my interest in trying psychedelics... it didn't scare me away b/c there are some parts where she just acted like an idiot about it.