Title: A REAL diary???No one will ever know, but still a MUST read!
Product review: The first time I read Go Ask Alice I was 15 years old. I am 25 now and have just finished reading it again, making it the 4th read. There is alot of controversy over whether or not the book is a real life diary. I wouldn't have questioned it when I was younger, but as an older "wiser", more experienced person...I do have my doubts. The argument that the book is fictional is that it brings out just about every drug stereotype we've all heard before, the sexual abuse and promiscuity, the evil-druggie friends that torment her when she's off drugs, the gateway she follows into other drugs, etc... However, we could also argue that these stereotypes weren't just pulled out of thin air, they really do happen. It is quite possible that "Alice" did exist and did write this beautiful yet tragic and heart-wrenching journal of her young life. Does it really matter? Not to me. It's a TRUE TO LIFE tale, and that's all that really needs to be known.
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