Find all the books, read about the author, and more. This book is an honest account of a young person finding themselves accidentally in the world of addiction. But those hoping to see an alice through the looking glass based on the book will be. Go ask alice by anonymous i have read this book at least 5 times. This is a book written to scare teenagers who dont know any better out of doing drugs and thats all fine and dandy. Books similar to go ask alicejays journal goodreads. The books are better, but the movie stars two disney celebs, ryan from high school musical and mitchies friend on camp rock. A child in the midvictorian era, alice unintentionally goes on an underground adventure after accidentally falling down a rabbit hole into wonderland. Years later i found a few alice and jerry books in yard sales and it was like finding old friends. As powerful and as timely today as ever, go ask alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. Reading go ask alice the socalled real diary, first published in 1971, of an anonymous girl who took drugs and diedis an experience so widely shared that theres little point personalizing it. Find books like go ask alice from the worlds largest community of readers. A personal opinion on the reasons why the book go ask alice should not be banned.
Some people maintain that alice in wonderland can only have been written by an author with considerable hallucinogenic mushroom experience under their belt. Eventually, when i was in middle school, i read alice in wonderland for the very first time, and in the first year of owning a copy of the novel, i must have read it close to ten times. If you like go ask alice you might like similar books crank, cut, identical, impulse, aimee. I absolutely loved alice, and i couldnt figure out why for a very long time. An award winning novel by the name of go ask alice did that. A shocking true story for fans of reasons why kindle edition by anonymous. A fifteenyearold drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world. Girl by blake nelson written like a diary of a true 16 year old girl even though it written by a man, also made into a movie. Im an advocate for banned stories that teach difficult lessons the easier way, and go ask alice definitely falls into this category. One book that is extremely similar to go ask alice is jays journal, written by. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Go ask alice anonymous diaries paperback january 1, 2006. Soon she meets beth, a jewish neighbor, and the two become fast friends.
I made this trailer as part of my english assignment. Stream go ask alice unabridged audiobook at by user1868941 from desktop or your mobile device. All picture source titles are hyperlinked to the pages that they appear on this site. Here you can find handpicked readalike recommendations for more than 4000 contemporary books and 3000 authors.
Go ask alice is still awash in controversy, 43 years. A book report on go ask alice english literature essay. See which new books our editors chose as this months favorites for kids of all ages. Based on a 15yearolds diary, go ask alice is the intimate account of one girls fatal journey into the world of drug addiction. Where can i find these quotes in alice in wonderland. Like most back alleys of russiagate, the tracks of this story are murky. Ill also compare still alice to the story of a reallife alice, sandra bem, a brilliant professor who taught at cornell and who, like movie alice, was afflicted with alzheimers disease. This is a list of books that for whatever reason remind me of alice s adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll. Lastly, ill consider some literary features of the film that bolster its accuracy while also delivering a message of consolation to viewers. Everyone who encounters go ask alice goes through the same four stages titillated horror, for the young reader, at the book s dramatic depictions of drug use. We moved to a new house in the middle of 1st grade. This is my second read of go ask alice, and i loved it just as much the second time around. Go ask alice by beatrice sparks, breaking bailey by anonymous, calling maggie may by anonymous, it happened. Go ask alice is a reference to a jefferson airplane song called white rabbit, which alludes to rampant hallucinogenic drug use in lewis carrolls alice in wonderland.
I also liked the book because you can see everything through the eyes of a drug addict. During the entry where alice tried pot for the first time i almost put the book down. The alice books actually is a movie its only one, but its a spinoff of the agony of alice. Perfect prep for go ask alice quizzes and tests you might have in school. Please check your internet connection or reload this page.
It felt like the author beatrice sparks wasnt sure how to end it got sick of writing and. One book that is extremely similar to go ask alice is jays journal, written by anonymous aka beatrice sparks again. Alysss bodyguard, searches everywhere to find alyss, so the rightful. I read it quite quickly and ill have to say the story took a turn towards the end that i did not see coming. Always home author fanny singer quarantines with alice. Was alice through the looking glass based on a book. She thinks someday shed like to get married and raise a family. Though go ask alice is a classic, its not a good book. Attributed to anonymous, the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited. The book is based on the true diary of a sixteen year old boy from utah who ultimately committed suicide after joining a satanic cult, and the writing style is very similar to go ask alice. It was in the same town, upper arlington ohio, but the new school used the dick and jane series. Returning to it as an adult feels a bit like youre taking part in a piece of pop culture in the vein of scared straight or reefer madness. Poignant and unflinchingly honest, her story is a tragedy that is repeated in towns and cities across the country. Goodreads members who liked go ask alice also liked.
Stories similar to alice in wonderland books, stories, and novels like alice in wonderland by lewis carroll. Alices adventures in wonderland and through the looking. The books in order the official alice blog by phyllis. There are at least 27 alice donovans in the greater nyc area. Beth leaves for summer camp and alice goes to live with her grandparents. Originally sold as the real diary of an actual teenager, go ask alice is the fauxmemoir of a 15yearold girl whose life is dominated by her drug problems, following her experiences from her. Always home author fanny singer and chef alice waters join the book clubs april 21 virtual event.
This study guide consists of approximately 52 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of go ask alice. Go ask alice title was inspired from thelyrics jefferson airplane white rabbit 3. Author alice louise staman might have died of coronavirus. Go ask alice is a 1971 fiction book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of selfdestructive escapism. The book that defined my teen anxiety turned out to be a lie. Use the alphabetical lists below to look up a favorite book or author and then click see readalikes to discover similar books.
The girl who wrote this diary lived in two different worlds, the real world and a fantasy world. Alice s adventures in wonderland appeals to all new generations, and richard kellys edition is a fresh and fitting jamboree for our time. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading go ask alice. Novel versus the movie adaption of go ask alice essay. I loved the stories and the illustrations in the alice and jerry books. For readers of atul gawande, siddhartha mukherjee, and henry marsh, a riveting, gorgeously written biography of one of historys most fascinating and confounding diseases alzheimers from its discovery more than 100 years ago to todays race towards a cure. Some of these are retellings, some are similar in genre or theme and some are just so full of carrollian imagination that i had to include them. Are there any other novels similar to alice in wonderland. Through out the history of film, many productions have been made based on best selling novels.
Teenagers dont need to be experimenting with some of the things that are addressed in this book. Alex and the ironic gentleman by adrienne kress has a similar madcap whimsy about it, and like alice it features a young girl going on an adventure in a strange world and meeting extraordinary people including, in this case, harried movie direc. Alice is a fictional character and protagonist of lewis carrolls childrens novel alice s adventures in wonderland 1865 and its sequel, through the lookingglass 1871. Goodreads members who liked go ask alicejays journal also lik. A dark and edgy firstperson cautionary tale about how one girls seemingly minor choices quickly spiraled into a life as a sex worker in the tradition of go ask alice and lucy in. Alice s adventures in wonderland commonly shortened to alice in wonderland is an 1865 novel written by english mathematician. Many books have influenced my life and how i think, but very few have altered my sense of reality. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of go ask alice. The sobering message of go ask alice had a huge effect on my. I think you mean go ask alice by anonymous aka beatrice sparks, but anywho. For the first time, it gives us in a single book both lewis carrolls early version of alice s adventures under ground and the full version of the story.
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