Talk:Go Ask Alice
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[edit] Category:Banned books
I removed the category link, because the text of the article makes no mention of when, where, why, or by whom the book was banned. I've never heard of the book being banned, myself. If you want to re-add the category link, please add a section to the article about the purported ban. • Benc • 09:34, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC) This book is on the ALA's list of the top 100 books challenged in the 1990's as number 23. Bans started in the 1970's: 1974 in Kalamazoo, 1975 in Saginaw, 1977 in Eagle Pass and Trenton through removal from local libraries. Other libraries in New York 1975, Utah 1979, and Florida 1982 required parental permission for a student to check-out the book. Additional bans occured in 1983 in Minnesota and Colorado, 1984 in Mississippi, and 1986 in Georgia and Michigan. Also, in 1993 in New Jersey and West Virginia, 1994 in Massachusetts, 1998 in Rhode Island, and 2003 in Maine. The book was number 8 on the most challenged list in 2001 and up to number 6 in 2003. Various bans and censorships were brought on by parents, principals, and school board officials. Please refer to the ALA website or "120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature" for additional information and to understand what constitutes a ban. *All dates listed taken directly from "120 Banned Books," p. 456-57.
- Nice work -- I've added this to the article. Perodicticus 12:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Propaganda
This book is a piece of junk, pure and simple. It reads like pure government, anti-drug propaganda. It could have been written by Nancy Reagan. Anyone who takes this book seriously needs to give their head a shake. The most unrealistic portrayal of drug abuse ever.
- It is very clearly fiction. Some of the exaggeration is so ridiculous as to be laughable. At least they admit they just made it up.
- I disagree. I've witnessed drug abuse on many fronts and I've found that this book, though it certainly doesn't apply to every situation, is actually closer to the truth than simply being "propaganda".
[edit] Comment on this book.
I believe this book, Go Ask Alice, tells the story of many young girls life. People these days trying to get out the easy way by using drugs. E.C.C.11!
Get over it. Drugs are a sad part of life and this story explains it.
• I grew up in an area where drug use was common and thus occasionally used myself, and I've never met anyone whose experiences come even close to Alice's. It's a good book but I wouldn't say that it's totally realistic, nor do I think that it adequately explains what real drug users are like, as you purport it does.
- this book is awesome what are you talking about!!!!?!
and you are in some other world thinking this isn't real! drugs DO kill people!
[edit] Goofs
Article now has a goofs section. Three factual inconsistencies (as opposed to the general untrue 'feel' of the writing) in the book point towards a fabricated diary... Could the fact that she seems to experience an unplanned, and very intense, flashback LSD trip (when these are really just an urban myth) count as a goof? This is unplanned trip that happens night when she's alone in her bebroom; not the peanut-brittle/dead grampa/maggots eating my face/locked in a closet bad trip while baby sitting. Asa01 07:13, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
- This fantasy story was made up when it was believed that it was possible to have a full LSD experience flashback. Some still believe this nonsense obviously.
[edit] Goof/error
Also, the book's protagonist never seems to actually pay for any drugs!! (An idea that had always fascinated me.) Early on she helps a boyfriend deal drugs, but she at the time believes she is doing so to raise funds for his college education, so she probably wasn't being paid in any way for those sales. Through the story she is variously slipped pills at a party, her new acquaintance Chris passes her two pills when she is feeling down, someone hands her a joint, or she attends a "rally" where all the drugs are free. There might be one or two references - late in the book - of her being required to perform sexual favours in return for drugs ("Another day, another blow job") but by then she had already injested masses of stuff for free. Asa01 21:42, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- Probably part of the drug dealers give free samples myth.
[edit] Discrepancies
I have removed the discrepancies bit until we can get a good source for it, SqueakBox 21:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 2006/2007
Edited the first part of the article stating "35 years (as of 2006)" to "36 years (as of 2007)" seeing as we're in 2007 now.
