I just finished reading "Go Ask Alice" by Anonymous. I checked it out of the library last night and was finished it by the end of the school day today. The book is the diary of a typical 15-year old girl who ends up trying LSD accidently, when someone gives it to her in a glass of Coca-Cola. She later on goes back and forth between trying drugs and becoming sober. I found the book was interesting because it was the diary of a real girl, therefore it's not exaggerated and you realize it's true. She says very often that she is going to stop, and that she feels horrible for what she has done she is going to change, etc. And, it makes sense to see where she gets dragged in to it over and over again. What I found most interesting was that although, halfway through the book she decided to never do drugs again, and she doesn't except for when a bully from school sticks a "bummer" in a candy she has resulting in her being sent to an asylum. It showed progress and her showing that she was going to move on from her past and it seemed as though it would have a happy ending. However the epilogue says that she died three weeks after her last diary entry which stated she was going back to school. I assume that she got dragged back in to it somehow when she went back to school. What I found interesting about her character was that she always found time to write in her diary so obviously she had many thoughts to get out there. It was a short book with short diary entries so it was a fast read. It opened my eyes to the lives of those who do get dragged in to drugs, which I know includes in some of the students in my school. I have just never seen it as being such a thing that gets out of control.
I'll get back to you after I'm done the girl who loved Tom Gordon.
Sincerely,
The book worm.
