Go Ask Alice

This is one of the very few books that I didn't bother to actually finish. I read about half way through and there were some things that were really bothering me, some things that just did not seem to be kosher about the way the book was written.

Here was a girl, around fifteen, who starting using drugs, going from LSD on up through heroin, yet writing often in her diary in a manner which not only was highly intelligent but which did not seem to be affected by her drug usage. The way she went from one drug to another, the way other people acted, it just seemed phony some how.

So I googled the book and, lo and behold, I find out it's actually a fake. Checking various sources, I found that the book was written by a grown woman (or maybe even more than one person), and that it seems that this was the type of person who was more interested in pushing anti-drug propaganda that in telling the truth (think Reefer Madness, the old movie).

I don't care for people who do that. There are enough young people who are suffering from real drug-related problems and whose stories need to be told, and help gotten for them, as there is. We don't need a fictional person created just to push someone's own political agenda.

If I could rate this book lower than a 1 I would; I'd rate it in negative numbers.

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