Title: It's dishonest to say this is a true book -- it's not.
Product review: Go Ask Alice is purported to be the true diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user in the late sixties or early seventies, and Beatrice Sparks only the editor, but when I read it I realized there was a reason it was on the Fiction shelf of the library. It is quite obviously fictional and not very good fiction at that.I think the purpose of this book is meant to scare people into never trying drugs. The narrarator of this diary had her life ruined by them, the book says. It's like Beatrice Sparks is saying, "Use LSD and you might end up in a mental home like this girl. Smoke pot and you might get so wasted you end up in another state without remembering how you got there, just like this girl." That is total bull. Smoke pot and all you're likely to do is veg out in front of the television. I cannot speak for LSD as I've never taken it....
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