Go Ask Alice

absolute garbage....written by some middle aged lady that has obviously never used any psychedelic substance in her life.. it doesn't even achieve its purpose (scare kids off drugs)...the "story" is completely ridiculous it feels so staged and doesn't make any sense. Pure "war on drugs" hysteria.. LSD does not lead to other drug use, and the book doesn't even try to include any type of drug addiction, which MAY have achieved the purpose of the book. The climax is equally laughable...when acid mysteriously appears in Alice's snack dish and thus causes her to scrape her fingers off (obviously, this is reflecting LSD's effect: making people "insane"). Come ON!... Grace Slick would be disgusted..

 

ya this book wasn't 'great' at all.. I remember reading it and thinking that I could have written a more interesting drug addict story any day of the week (it wasn't based on reality anyway)

 

I thought it was a good book, even if it wasn't accurate like some people are saying. It was an interesting read.

 

Yea it was alright. Id probably read it again, once. It was indeed interesting. But if it was intended to scare off people or teens then she better rewrite it. It only made me want to try out other things lol.

I didnt like when her and ermm, the girl she left to SF? with that created that whole mini store thing.. yea i didnt like that whole part. It was a little ehh.. poorly? written. But thats IMO.

All in All it was good to read. And i would actually tell others to read it.. just not use it as a scare tactic lol.:hat:

 

I remember expecting the book to have an impact on me and being seriously disappointed. I read the whole thing on a bus trip, to Toronto and back, when I was in 10th grade in Ontario. It came off as very stereotypical and detached, like it wasn't so much a journal as a lab assessment. Nevertheless, it didn't deter me any.

When I eventually got around to trying acid, the intensity of my experience was much more profound and enlightening, poetic and airy, than Alice's cold, hard trips. What a run-on sentence.

 

i remember reading go ask alice in my younger teens. i took it as real at the time & believed that it was written by a 15 year old girl. it did have some sort of effect on me but the opersit of what the book was intended. it made me want to try acid more than turn me away from it.

i was talking in another thread on the UK site about books that have had a profound effect on your life. the book that the most impack on my life was called Junk by Melvin Burgess. it was about two teenages that run away & become heroin addicts. its a very hard hitting story that actually did make me want to avoid heroin.

i was thinking about other drug books that i have read & this is when i remembered about this diary book about LSD. this prompted me to search on google & i found the name of it, go ask alice. obviosuly i have now read that it was a fake book. thinking back to the book, if i had read if for the first time now then i would probably have guessed that it was a fake.

its been a good 8 years since i first read the book, i may just have to read it again soon & re write my thoughts here.

 

i thought it was pants

 

I have not read it, but it's a fake written by a psychologist in Utah.
you get the picture. But I will read it one day probably.

 

ive wanted to read that book......

 

I just finished it, and I was surprised why everyone thought it was so great. Anyone who thinks this is actually a real girl's diary is stupid. It's written far too well to be by a acid-tripping 15 year old. The drugs are described in far too much detail for someone her age, and the book doesn't decide whether it wants to be pro-drugs or anti-drug, I was equally torn. The ending is lame, abrupt and makes no sense. The ending is given away by the back of the book! All in all, I thought it was pretty dumb and I thought it was more overemphasized then it needed to be.

 

i thought it was lame. i didnt even finish it. maybe i was too old when i read it (20) ?

 

Lol.
Maybe.
I'm pretty sure it was aimed at like young teens or something.

"STAY OFF DRUGS OR YOU'LL END UP BURNT OUT, PREGGORZ, AND THEN DEAD!"