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Alice is just an ordinary fifteen-year-old, white, middle-class teenager. She still goes to school, she isn´t very body-conscious (like most of the other adolescents of her age) and she has already pictured her future. In short: The protagonist of the true story is not a lot different from all the other teenagers.
But on July 9 Alice is turned to acid. Sometimes she worries about her dependence, but taking drugs makes her life more bearable, easy and uncomplicated. It helps her escape from daily routine and problems, and to cope with growing and becoming an adult.
Her parents notice that their daughter´s behaviour has changed, but they just put it down to her puberty period linked with bad company. Alice comes from a good family, so her Mum and her Dad don´t even have the idea for their child being a drug addict. And for this reason they can´t help her to get out of the vicious circle. Her cries for aid only reach her diary. It is the sole one she trusts in, offers her secrets and opens her soul to.
So this book is a personal, precise biography that provides insights into the world we live in and how an adolescent deals with it. It is no statement on teenage drug art and it doesn´t offer any solutions. So to say it´s a story written by life.
The title is a kind of invitation -Like: "If you don´t believe me go and ask Alice"
On the dark cover there is a young girl hiding her face. I think she´s ashamed.
There is a recommendation of the "Guardian" on the back of the book.
I don´t think that my interest would be stirred if I just leafed through the book while browsing in a bookshop. Why not? In general I don´t really enjoy true-to-life stories. When I find some spare time to read I want to relax and slip into someone else´s shoes. I want to escape from my problems and to see the world from an other point of view. The book "Go ask Alice" deals with the difficulties of being a teenager in the modern world. Well, that´s me. I identify with the central character of the book and so I have to face my own adolescence-worries and dangers several times while reading.
Usually I devour my books, I give myself completely over to them and I train my imagination by seeing things in a different light. I cherish to relax when I´m reading, but that´s impossible when I have to consider about society, my life and the world I live in all the time. That´s kind of stressing and depressing. Moreover in my opinion drug abuse is a topic too many books have already dealt with. There is nearly nothing to extract from this subject any more. I really don´t know why drug art still is such a big deal although there has been said almost everything about it.
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