Do you read " Go Ask Alice " when you were younger?

[mom2rb]

OK, so I read " Go Ask Alice " when I was 14 and it scared the H*** out of me. OMG she was tricked into using drugs became an addict and O.D. by 16. All a true story.

Well, I took my boys to the library the other day and saw a copy. I picked it up and started reading it again. It just didn't seem as plausible this time. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it was a fake. It seems that not too long after I read it they moved it to the fiction section of the library.

So anybody else get scared to death from this book?

 

[RUDisney]

Scared? No.

But, I still remember that I read it coming home from the Jersey Shore. I remember that we stopped at Hot Dog Johnny's and I was mad that I had to put it down to go out and eat.

So, yes, it affected me, but it didn't scare me, per say.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

I might have, it sounds familiar, didnt they make a tv movie out of it too? I vaguely remember something like that too?

 

[JunieJay]

I read it.

It didn't scare me enough to stop me from using drugs, that is for sure. The only thing that deterred me from that was the sheer amount of Nacho Cheese Doritos I could eat in one sitting while under the influence. I gave 'em up after I could no longer fit in my clothes.

That is one of those books that isn't going to age well though. The references in it I'm sure seem so ridiculous now.

Remember the other scary story that floated around, the one about Art Linkletter's daughter thinking she could fly while on acid and jumping out the window? That one scared me as a kid....

 

[NMAmy]

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That is one of those books that isn't going to age well though. The references in it I'm sure seem so ridiculous now.

Oh, I'm not sure about that. My dd is going through a phase where she loves these maudlin, cautionary tales. I recommended it to her and she loved it and passed it around to all her friends who loved it as well. DD and I were in the bookstore a few weeks ago and she cracked me up when she said, "Oh, man! I've already read all the books by Anonymous in the teen section!" She does enjoy a good sob story.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I was actually in my early 20s when I read it. Disturbing, yes. Did it scare me? No.

 

[AuntieM03]

I read it, but I don't remember much about it except that I thought it was shocking at the time.

 

[LiteBrite]

I remember reading it. I never did drugs, but I can't attribute it to that book. I was just one of those teen girls who loved reading about misery.

I also vividly remember reading "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", about a mentally ill teenage girl. Anybody else read that one? Somehow, in my mind it belongs in the same category with "Go Ask Alice".

 

[JunieJay]

I remember Rose Garden.

I also remember My Darling, My Hamburger. That was shocking for the times. Scared me enough to get me to visit Planned Parenthood.

 

[barbeml]

I remember reading it. I never did drugs, but I can't attribute it to that book. I was just one of those teen girls who loved reading about misery.

Me too! Remember "The People Next Door" and "Born Innocent"?

 

[elgerber]

I remember reading it. I never did drugs, but I can't attribute it to that book. I was just one of those teen girls who loved reading about misery.

I also vividly remember reading "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden", about a mentally ill teenage girl. Anybody else read that one? Somehow, in my mind it belongs in the same category with "Go Ask Alice".

I read both of these, I read Go Ask Alice more than once. It horrified me. I was surprised, when I was Barnes and Noble a couple months ago, that they had it sitting on a table with a bunch of other featured books. I didn't even realize it was still in print.

On that same line, I saw Judy Blumes "Forever" with a new modern cover at Target last week in the teen section!

There was another I read, as an adult, about a girl who dies of aids after being date raped by someone, that was a horrifying book also, but I can't remember the title.

 

[winniedapooh]

I remember Rose Garden.

I also remember My Darling, My Hamburger. That was shocking for the times. Scared me enough to get me to visit Planned Parenthood.

I read those too, I forgot all about them.

 

[JunieJay]

Me too! Remember "The People Next Door" and "Born Innocent"?

Born Innocent has me this morning. I'd have gone my whole life not remembering that if you hadn't mentioned it. But boy are my memories strong now that you did.

 

[barbeml]

Born Innocent has me this morning. I'd have gone my whole life not remembering that if you hadn't mentioned it. But boy are my memories strong now that you did.

And it was a TV movie: Linda Blair, the very controversial "shower scene"...

 

[JunieJay]

And it was a TV movie: Linda Blair, the very controversial "shower scene"...

Oh yeah, Linda Blair made it famous.

I wonder what ever happened to her. Think I'll go google her, I'm bored today. I already looked up where I might buy a copy of Born Innocent and I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.

 

[NMAmy]

I've been looking all over for that book, "Sunshine." You know, the young hippie mother who dies from cancer? I know dd would love it as much as I did but I can't find it at any bookstores anymore.

 

[JunieJay]

Sunshine was a movie too, right? With John Denver? Or am I thinking of something else?

 

[dcgrumpy]

Sunshine was a movie too, right? With John Denver? Or am I thinking of something else?

The movie was with Cliff deYoung (sp?) John Denver sang the theme song.


I've read all of the books mentioned none of them "scared" me.

 

[MsLeFever]

I remember my pretty liberal parents being shocked by Go Ask Alice when I was reading it as a 7th grader - but I can't remember much of the book itself. Was there sex in it? That's about all that might have shocked my folks.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

Between reading "Go Ask Alice" and remembering Art Linletter DD who jumped off a roof because she was on a Acid trip,
drugs that gave me a scare.