The Book
Just wondering if anyone else out there read the book. I have yet to see the movie and want to know if it compares to the book.
shareI don't know what year you even wrote this post in but i have an awnser for you: I haven't seen the movie, but I've seen the play, perhaps its similer to the movie? sThe play was good, but then I read the book and was really pissed because the play didn't followthe book at all.
-lost_tears
Yeah I hate it when a movie is based on a book, and then its like the movie or play has absolutely nothing to do with the original work. Still, the book was great-don't you agree? I remember reading it in high school and doing a book report on it and my teacher was like WTF.
shareThe movie follows the book pretty well, but there is still a lot of stuff that is left out. The book is way better, but the movie is good to see at least once.
-me-
In my high school, we HAD TO read the book. As part of the health class chapter on "drugs are bad, m'kay?"
I'm NOT joking.
I was also surprised that I was the only one in class who seemed to know it was fake, but it was also well-known in my town that my mother was the "hippie" so my arguments were dismissed on those grounds: "Oh, of course you're going to claim it's anti-drug propaganda; your mother is a hippie."
...and, of course, the amusing part is, I was the only one in my high-school who didn't make a point out of going to Toledo or Ann Arbor every other week to get weed. Not cos "my mom grows better stuff in the basement" (she didn't do drugs, she was like Frank Zappa that way), but cos I just didn't have any interest in getting *beep* when it was easier and cheaper to be weird in other ways.
lost tears where did you see the play, my school did a play of it before you posted your reply
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I've read the book twice, it's great. The book says that the author is anonymous, but on this site it says some Beatrice woman wrote it... I wonder if that's "alice's" mother. hmm. I don't know. Anyways, good book. I read it in like the 8th grade (4 years ago) for the first time. It's definitly something every teen should read.
shareok... PEMPS (please excuse my poor spelling)
sparks clames that the diary was given to her by "alice" 's family. in the 80's she would admit that some of it she used from simaler cases. she has also said that the origanal publishing companiy still is in posetion of "alice" 's diary, but says that she through away many of the entrys that were made on scrap peaces of paper. on top of that, the diary is lacking many of the whole "he said she said" one might find in the typical 15 year olds diary, not to mention the mind boggling vocabulary that this girl has. sparks second diary published was called "jays journal" and was even more unbelevable. the family the gave her the diary of their son clame that their were about 25 of his entrys and about 60 of her own. she made the rules of the world very black and whight with every book she ever edited.
I love go ask alice, it is an amazing book, wether or not its real is up to you. i feel that it gived you a refrece point. PLEASE im not telling you not to read this or that its pure bulls***, because i wanted to beleve it was real, so i reserched it and this is just what i found.
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thats why it did so well, would you rather here about a girl your age and how drugs killed her. or how a 40 year old woman feels about it. IT'S GENIUS!!! i love the book, please remeber that, im not trying to trash it or anything.
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"thats why it did so well, would you rather here about a girl your age and how drugs killed her. or how a 40 year old woman feels about it. IT'S GENIUS!!!"
that doesn't change the fact that all this IS is how a 40 year old woman feels about something she knew nothing about. She is a liar. Another one of her books was based on an actual journal, and she fabricated lies about him worshipping the devil. She dishonored his memory to make money.
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See, I only had to read a few lines of your post to realize you have no idea what you're talking about. The MOVIE came out in 1973, and the book was published in 1967 (with the permission of those who found the diary). There was some editing required, to publish the book, and because it was the will of the person/people who found it.
shareRight, aartgirl999, Jay's Journal was really out there in the ozone. It compromises the credibility of everything they published.
Terry
Your soul and your body are your own, and yours to do with as you wish.
The Beatrice who is given writing credits for Go Ask Alice is NOT the "anonymous" girl's mother. The Book is a work of FICTION. Beatrice Sparks invented the story, as well as others, as a moralizing tale about the horrors of drugs.
Check out this article:
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp
Interesting link, Heather. And to think this is mandatory reading in school. How low will our culture sink in the quest to stamp out drug use?
I always thought parts of it were extremely far-fetched, like the "druggie kids" going to such extreme lengths to "dose her?"
Terry
Your soul and your body are your own, and yours to do with as you wish.