go ask alice, cut., ever read them? Options

[*xcaitlinx*]

im currently reading "Go Ask Alice" (which is a true diary about a 15-year-old teen that's on drugs...pleasant, right?) and "Cut" (about someone that...cuts. even more pleasant)

i seem to be drawn to books about teenagers with common problems. especially diaries. even though i don't (and never will) do drugs, alcohol, or smoke...it still intrigues me. my friend was the one that has been buying books like this, including others like "The perks of being a Wallflower" and "Crank". She lets me borrow them after she reads them...and i love them.

Have you read any of these books or ones similar to them?

[william]

i've read the perks of being a wallflower and i'm buying the f**k up (which is kind of similar) as soon as i finish what i'm reading now. i've seen cut and go ask alice before (the girls in my class are obsessed) but never felt compelled to read them.

[*mona lisa*]

I've read Go Ask Alice a while ago. I really like the story. If you like diary-like stories and people with problems, you can look at books by V.C. Andrews, although you may not like some of them. Most books have teens as the protagonist, and they have very weird and extreme problems. Read to your own discretion.

[lilliannnn]

i've read cut. i absolutely love it. if you haven't read it yet DO IT.

[akjsd]

G0 ASK ALiCE is my favorite book . i could it read over and over again and never get bored .

[x LUV x ALWAYS x]

ive never heard of cut, and one of my friends named Alice was once reading Go Ask Alice. (not supposed to be funny, but i thought it was kind of an interesting coincidence.)

[sweet_devil]

i've read go ask alice, it was a good book, but depressing...

[loljuliana]

wow, i've heard of "go ask alice" before. my boyfriend said the book "Jay's Journal" was also a good book about a boy who does drugs etc.

[*Azarel*]

Ooh, I know this is an old topic but those books are from the publisher Push, if I remember correctly. I liked Crank by Ellen Hopkins. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous was (obviously) very real, but I wasn't as fond of it. And I didn't like Cut by Patricia McCormick; I thought it was kind of stupid.

Another book written in the style of Crank is Jinx by Margaret Wild; it's one of my favorites. Also, other PUSH novels that I've read (off of the top of my head) that you may like are Tomorrow, Maybe by Brian James (I really like this one), Pure Sunshine by Brian James, Kerosene by Chris Wooding, & Fighting Ruben Wolfe by Markus Zusak.

-> Entertainment, since it's book discussion? Maybe?

Does anybody else read Push poetry books?

[*mzkandi*]

Moved to Entertainment

[sw33t_rouge]

i read the A-List does that count..?

[Retrogressive]

Cut by Patricia McCormick... hmm, I did a monologue from it. But over all, it seemed like a huge cliche of "teen cutters". I wouldn't suggest it to anyone.

Woah Azeral, I'm a HUGE Push fan. I love Chris Wooding, I've read most of his writing (published by PUSH and otherwise). I loved Born Confused, Crash, Kerosene... I've read almost all of PUSH's publications.

[Saeglopur]

Yeah. I think I'll pick up Go Ask Alice soon. Since I've been meaning to read it.

[misoshiru]

i've never read these books, but i have indeed read other ones about drugs, suicide, or the course of going through withdrawal.

[omgah_itsmaggiex]

i read cut. it really wasnt that great.

[*xcaitlinx*]

Woaaah...old topic. haha i don't even remember creating it. hmm..right now i'm reading "you don't know me" and it's really really good.

[Chii]

I've read Go Ask Alice a while ago. I really like the story. If you like diary-like stories and people with problems, you can look at books by V.C. Andrews, although you may not like some of them. Most books have teens as the protagonist, and they have very weird and extreme problems. Read to your own discretion.

those VC Andrews books are so sick and twisted...i love them though

i read Go Ask Alice but i kind of forget what it was about, i did read this other book about this girl who was fooling around with her teacher. Cut failed to hold my interest.

[*Azarel*]

Woaaah...old topic. haha i don't even remember creating it. hmm..right now i'm reading "you don't know me" and it's really really good.

You Don't Know Me by David Klass? I read that about two years ago. It was one of my favorites at the time.

those VC Andrews books are so sick and twisted...i love them though

i read Go Ask Alice but i kind of forget what it was about, i did read this other book about this girl who was fooling around with her teacher. Cut failed to hold my interest.

I think I read that novel a while ago, too. It wasn't that great.

[Midnight Faerie]

You Don't Know Me by David Klass? I read that about two years ago. It was one of my favorites at the time.

I read that in the sixth grade and fell in love. Amazing book.
Another great book is Speak by Laura Halse Anderson.


Oh, and I've read Cut as well. Some parts bored me a little; I skipped through a bit of the book. I thought it was okay.

[NoSex]

I'm sitting here and listening to White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane. Great song. Grace Slick, the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, conceived of the song when reading Lewis Carrol's classic novel Alice in Wonderland. She believed, in the subtext, that there were strong references to drugs and drug use. So, the song was written and published. It became Jefferson Airplane's most popular song.

Four years after the release of White Rabbit the novel Go Ask Alice was published for the first time in 1971. Go Ask Alice was published under the author "Anonymous." On the cover, below the title, it reads, "A Real Diary." With further inspection into the book, we are told that this is the true diary of a 15 year teenage girl. This is the true story of her spiral into a life of drug abuse, sexual immorality, prostitution, and ultimately death. The title of this highly provocative book taking itself from the song White Rabbit.

"Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall"

The song seems, very much, to describe an acid or LSD trip. It's a production of late 60's psychedelic-counter-culture-rock. Why is this the inspiration for the title of this book? Sure, the book relates to such themes, but not in the same manner White Rabbit does. White Rabbit seems to glorify and make romantic the idea of using mind-altering drugs. Go Ask Alice demonizes these things. So, why the connection?

The answer to this question can be found in trying to understand the origin of the book Go Ask Alice. As the book purports, it's origin is in reality. It is, essentially, a copy of this poor unnamed girl's diary. However, despite being placed in the teen's non-fiction section, Go Ask Alice is a fabrication. A fraud. One that has deceived and fooled audiences for over 30 years.

Flash back to the early 1970's. We are in the psychedelic era of rock. We have entered into the final stretch of the "We Generation" mentality. In this "hippie" counter-culture hallucinogen use was king. The moral panic created by this era is rather uniform. Students are bombarded with anti-drug, pro-religion, anti-sex, and anti-rock messages. All from honest, kind, and caring parents and authorities who know best. And, apparently, lie well.

Most, if not all, hysteria was born out of ignorance. The idea was that psychedelic rock would brainwash your child into a pot-smoking, LSD trippin', hippie loser. Instead of educating and speaking of the true dangers of drug use to an entire generation of youth, our society felt more comfortable hiding away in a fabricated reality of drugs and rock-music-influence. "True stories" of the horrible effects of drugs run rampant. Church officials predict that the "End is near." Parents shit themselves.

There was, and still is, a real danger in drug use. But, it was much easier to control with fear-inducing fabrications. It's a lot easier to follow, rather than lead. A great majority of the American people were stuck, and have been stuck, in a moral panic and "War against drugs."

Of all the anti-drug messages, Go Ask Alice has survived beyond; The book even fighting blind moral panic itself, not for its dubious authorship, but for its graphic content. Today, Go Ask Alice is still required reading in many youth circles and it is taken very seriously.

But, if its origins are a lie. If it is not the true diary of a 15 year old girl, who wrote it? That question is not so easily answered. However, Clues to this answer began to surface nearly eight years after the release of Go Ask Alice. In promotional material for another "real teen diary", Jay's Journal, a Beatrice Sparks is credited as the editor of Go Ask Alice. Later that same year, in an interview, Beatrice Sparks would admit that the story, despite there being a "real" 'Alice', was partially inspired by similar cases. She went on to say that the subject the book was based on did not die of a drug overdose, rather, she died of unknown causes. When asked to produce original transcripts from the actual diary, Sparks informs her interviewer that these pages were destroyed or have otherwise been lost in the publisher's locked vault. Conveniently, of course.

Doubts begin to surface. The journalists of America can uncover highly confidential government scandals, but fail to find a single person connected with the young girl in Go Ask Alice. The book is structured and written much like a drama, however, the imagination stretches when picturing a 15 year old girl behind the pen writing a personal diary. But, controversy explodes when Beatrice, now recognized editor of both Jay's Journal and Go Ask Alice is blasted by the family of suicide victim Alden Barrett.

Unknown to the public, Beatrice, after gaining some popularity for supporting the publishing and promotion of Go Ask Alice, had been contacted by Marcella Barrett, mother of recently deceased Alden Barrett. Mrs. Barrett was under the impression that Beatrice could get her son's story out to the world. A healing process could then begin. Beatrice would fulfill Mrs. Barretts wishes. Beatrice Sparks had been given Alden's journal by the family and his story was to be told.

Alden Barrett was a young teenage boy. His mother and family were members of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. He was a curious young man who questioned his family's faith often sympathizing with eastern religion. He had fallen in-love with a young girl, but was a tad bit inept in social interaction. Being denied requited love, and facing a possible broken home, Alden ended his life in 1971 with a self-inflicted gun shot to the head. His story was published both eight years after his death and the release of Go Ask Alice. The book was titled Jays Journal: The shocking diary of a 16-year-old helplessly drawn into a world of witchcraft and evil

With the release of the book came the outrage of Alden's family. They accused Sparks of fabricating almost entirely the story. Passages involving satanism, a falling away from the Mormon church, drug abuse, sadism, ritual animal cruelty and sacrifice described an unrecognizable Alden. The characters in Jay's Journal were unknown to Alden's close friends and family. The community, outraged and insulted, produced a play in Alden's memory detailing the sensational fraud and embellishment committed by Beatrice Sparks. Alden's brother Scott would later published a book entitled, A Place in the Sun: The Truth Behind Jay's Journal. The Barrett family would be tested, and suffer many hardships.

Jay's Journal, just as Go Ask Alice, is still promoted as the true diary of a young teenager. Beatrice Sparks has been a life-long Mormon. She has claimed and described, with vagueness, her work and relation with adolescents as a youth counselor in the church. When reading Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal, or any other of the countless "By an Anonymous Teenager" diaries released with Beatrice Sparks as "editor" it becomes obvious that these are cautionary tales with religious fundamental themes.

The parents are always right, plot devices increase sympathetic attitudes, bad companions draw victims, drugs always lead to more immoral and deviant pleasures, broken homes breed evil homes, sex is to be saved for marriage alone, and death is a guarantee unless you heed these warnings.

Beatrice Sparks isn't presenting true diaries of unfortunate teenagers, she is promoting her fundamentalist values through fabrications, and making lots of money doing it. It's called 'Go Ask Alice' because Sparks hates psychedelic bands like Jefferson Airplane. Sparks wants to connect the death of a once innocent, and forgiving christian girl to the songs of popular rock artists. In her small naive world, Jefferson Airplane is the true source of all the world's ills.

I absolutely despise Go Ask Alice.

[ParanoidAndroid]

^ummm, wtf?

I have a whole shelf on those kinds of books... and that Go ask Alice thing is one of them

[The_AZN_Godfathe...]

I read Go Ask Alice recently.

My teacher was all like, "Go Ask Alice is a stupid book about a teen on drugs. Cussing, etc."
Then I ask for the book from her library and she's all like:

[sm0kinm0nky]

I read Go Ask Alice, it's quite amazing

Next year we're required to read The Perks Of Being a Wallflower

[NoSex]

Did no one read my post?

[Crich323]

I've read cut and I liked it also. I think the fact that the book is written in diary form makes the book more personal and real. I'll try to read the Alice book soon.

[Saeglopur]

Did no one read my post? 

Yeah. I did. It's similar to A Million Little Pieces.. by it being a fraud. (Well well, isn't it about drugs too?) But yeah.

[rainbowish]

I have read "Go Ask Alice". Its one of the best boooks I have ever read. Actually can read it multiple times. Great Book.

[fainaru]

go ask alice was something i wanted to read on my list for a long time and i read it in gr8. it was quite the book and i found it very interesting ^^ hehehe. yeah i really into those suicidal, druggy, rape, disorders, relationship related books.

[*lil_chubby_cheeks2*]

im in the middle [(sorta)] of go ask alice, its a realy good book.

[NoSex]

im in the middle [(sorta)] of go ask alice, its a realy good book.

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f;asfhasfasha! Nop ot's not stop it!

[Saeglopur]

If Go Ask Alice was real, the teen has a good vocabulary....

and um, yeah. There were stuff that seemed surreal about the teen. Like.. who goes to the library to check out the drugs they just did? Blah.

[NoSex]

If Go Ask Alice was real, the teen has a good vocabulary....

and um, yeah. There were stuff that seemed surreal about the teen. Like.. who goes to the library to check out the drugs they just did? Blah.

More like, who spends extended periods of time writing a vivid description of those drugs that they just took as opposed to spending more time on writing about your crush and other gossip oriented teenage things.

Simply by reading it, we should be able to tell that it isn't real.
Vocab, yeah. Heh heh.

[liloandstitchx3]

I've only read Go Ask Alice.

[subway]

i read jay's journal which is ...i dont know what you call it.... in the same series with go ask alice. the book wasnt as good as go ask alice but it was a good book and i suggest you read it if you 'enjoyed' go ask alice.

[xmkaex]

my friend read that book before...she told me about it and i thoguht it was pretty interesting

[LuvsDogs387]

I read "Go Ask Alice" for health class. It was interesting. Very sad ending tho. There is even a song about this book. I remember the lyrics "you can't go ask Alice anymore" being in it. Which makes the book even sadder.

[krispy_kreme333]

I've read both Go Ask Alice and Cut. they were both very good. I started to read jays Journal, but I lost intrest in it.

[NoSex]

I read "Go Ask Alice" for health class.

The hell would you read that in health class for?

[LuvsDogs387]

The hell would you read that in health class for?

Well that was in 9th grade and I'm a Freshman in college now so my mind is a bit rusty. But I think it was for something like, what kind of destruction can happen to a person by doing drugs.

[NoSex]

Well that was in 9th grade and I'm a Freshman in college now so my mind is a bit rusty. But I think it was for something like, what kind of destruction can happen to a person by doing drugs.

Yeah. Too bad the book is a lie, huh?

[HappyHeart]

I've read Go Ask Alice a few months ago, and it was pretty interesting. I thought the ending was freaky because after her life was back to normal, she was found dead. It still confuses me.

[faded23]

no matter what anyone says i absolutely love these books! They are some of my favorites and are also the kind of books I'm drawn too.




EDIT

Just because we read your post (which i didn't, just skimmed <being honest>) doesn't mean you changed our minds. You don't have that much of a power over us. Get over yourself.

[NoSex]

Just because we read your post (which i didn't, just skimmed <being honest>) doesn't mean you changed our minds. You don't have that much of a power over us. Get over yourself.

I didn't think I had power of you; I thought reason might have.
Plus, no one can change anyones mind. Ultimately, only and individual can make that personal choice.
Also, you didn't even read the post. So...?
I mean, you might want to read it if you're gonna snap back like this. Maybe if you did read it, you might change your mind. And, at the same time, you may not even understand what I am saying because you havn't read the argument.

But...

Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't have assumed that you might have been reasonable and rational individuals that are capable of being pliable and intellectualy honest.

Yeah, you're right. Despite overwhelming evidence, it is the true diary of a 15 year old girl! And it's sooooooo good! So good!

no matter what anyone says i absolutely love these books! They are some of my favorites and are also the kind of books I'm drawn too.

Also, you may be a bit biased. Just maybe.

[Saeglopur]

Haha, in the beginning of the book (in small print, mind you.) It even states that the book is fiction.

I'm just saying. x)

[`SWTWiNKLE3YES]

Go ask Alice is awesome <3333 its my favorite book and So B. It

[Aldensbro]

Just logged into this blog. Thanks for being at least intrested.
My brother, Alden Barrett did leave a journal recounting the last 6 months of his life, along with poems, letters, a red Frisbee, a fringed-leather "stash pouch", and a few other items.
Beatrice Sparks did use 21 entries from Alden's journal to write "Jay's Journal". She fabricated 80% of "Jay's Journal", including any satanic rituals, cattle mutiation, drinking or bathing in blood, killing cats rituistically, levitating kitchen utensils, etc., which leads me to believe that her other works, such as "Go Ask Alice" were ficitionalized as well. On comparing "Jay's Journal" and "Go ask Alice" side by side, you can see the obvious writing style similarities. if you would like to see a copy of Alden's original journal you need to read my book, "a Place in the Sun: The Truth Behind Jay's Journal. Write me at apits_71@hotmail.com for more information.

[NoSex]

Just logged into this blog. Thanks for being at least intrested.
My brother, Alden Barrett did leave a journal recounting the last 6 months of his life, along with poems, letters, a red Frisbee, a fringed-leather "stash pouch", and a few other items.
Beatrice Sparks did use 21 entries from Alden's journal to write "Jay's Journal". She fabricated 80% of "Jay's Journal", including any satanic rituals, cattle mutiation, drinking or bathing in blood, killing cats rituistically, levitating kitchen utensils, etc., which leads me to believe that her other works, such as "Go Ask Alice" were ficitionalized as well. On comparing "Jay's Journal" and "Go ask Alice" side by side, you can see the obvious writing style similarities. if you would like to see a copy of Alden's original journal you need to read my book, "a Place in the Sun: The Truth Behind Jay's Journal. Write me at apits_71@hotmail.com for more information.

Wow. This is interesting.
Did you read my post on the first page?

[tanichick]

I've never heard of either

[Aldensbro]

ABS,
Yes I did read it. Thank you for taking the time to do some intelligent research.

[NoSex]

ABS,
Yes I did read it. Thank you for taking the time to do some intelligent research.

Thank you. I'm very glad you got to read it.
I'll have to check out your book sometime.

[whooooshy]

i read "go ask alice" before and was considering reading cut, but didn't. i like reading books in the form of diaries, it's an interesting point of view. and i get what you mean by the common problems. there was this other book i read about teens drinking. it's a very typical topic, teens & all those problems, but i like reading books about them too.

[jeung]

moved to interests -> books forum

[xbby_charmz]

This is rather old but I was just about to do a thread on this =D lol This book is such an insparational book =D I read the boook cut and crosses too

[SarahxJoy]

I have the book Go Ask Alice, but I've yet to read it since I'm working on finishing with two other books. But I will.

[cashmere deer]

I was going to read 'Go Ask Alice' but a friend borrowed it and things got mixed up and now it is lost. =\ Those books are usually pretty okay, though I really didn't like 'The perks of being a wallflower' I don't understand why everyone loves that book so much, I mean it is sort of..unoriginal.

[NoSex]

Those books are usually pretty okay, though I really didn't like 'The perks of being a wallflower' I don't understand why everyone loves that book so much, I mean it is sort of..unoriginal.

So, wait. You think that "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" is unoriginal, but that teen drug use is indeed original? Tell me I'm reading this wrong.

[pegLeg_77]

heres a friendly note o all of you who are so captivated by Go Ask Alice....ITS FAKE!!!!!! the authour one beatrice sparks even admits that this book is mot based on anyone particular. shes also the authour if JAYS JOURNOL which has been proved to be a complete fake.The real story is about a boy named Alden Barrett, who did committ sucide but never led a life like the one portrayed by this so called author.so see for yourself. do your own research just know that your true stories are made up and have split apart the members of the families that they really are about.SPARKS IS A FAKE AND SO ARE HER BOOKS.

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

i have read go ask alice

[xlilaznchickx]

i have never read go ask alice..but i've seen the book before...i was planning to read it..but never got the chance..and actually i forgot about the book 'till this topic/forum

[ParanoidAndroid]

I didn't bother reading the rest of the topic, but who's the author for Cut?

[goodcharlotte]

I read Go Ask Alice. I liked it but I couldn't stand to read it because of her destructive behavior throughout the entire book. It was good though 2 thumbs up.

[soEXCLUSIVE]

I read Go Ask Alice, it was pretty... tragic? I don't know any other adjective to describe it. Thinking of it as fake and fictional kinda ruins it though.

[expoised]

if books like that interest you... go read

"The White Horse"
"Smack"

umm... "I was a Teenage Fairy" isn't really about drugs or alcohol, but it borderlines on sexual harrassment ... It's by Francesca Lia Block and is incredible if you like her style.

there. semi-angsty-and-tragic books for you to read.

[tokyo-rose]

I have Cut and I've read Go Ask Alice. They were both really good. I really like the girl's nickname in Cut, and the ending of Go Ask Alice made me sad.

[synthase]

yes i read both of them
very moving

i have one similar [?] its called "Life in the Fat Lane"

[beyond.the.sea]

K, Acid Bath Slayer, to be quite honest you are making me quite angry. I'm not trying to start anything, but honestly. Ok, so the point of forums is to discuss general interests and things like that. and basically you are telling anyone who likes 'go ask alice' that they are wrong to like it. you go on basically trying to prove that you are right, and everyone else is wrong. you know what, people are allowed to think what they want to think, and just because you tell them something that you think is a fact does not mean that they will change their minds, and it definately does not mean that you are right. All it means is that you read something once, and now are repeating it. Personally I really like the book 'go ask alice'. i just finished it like an hour ago, and i came on the internet trying to find out more information on the story behind it. I don't believe the crap you are saying about the editor making it up, and whatever. I think it's a true story, and i think it's very sad. and for you to say that you hate it, is rediculously rude. so you hate a dead girl. that's really mature. I hope your additude changes because having that 'i know everything' additude will not get you very far in life. don't bother posting back because i don't plan on coming back to this site again, i just thought i would tell you my thoughts on your rediculous posts. i hope everyone has a good day.

[NoSex]

K, Acid Bath Slayer, to be quite honest you are making me quite angry. I'm not trying to start anything, but honestly. Ok, so the point of forums is to discuss general interests and things like that. and basically you are telling anyone who likes 'go ask alice' that they are wrong to like it. you go on basically trying to prove that you are right, and everyone else is wrong. you know what, people are allowed to think what they want to think, and just because you tell them something that you think is a fact does not mean that they will change their minds, and it definately does not mean that you are right. All it means is that you read something once, and now are repeating it. Personally I really like the book 'go ask alice'. i just finished it like an hour ago, and i came on the internet trying to find out more information on the story behind it. I don't believe the crap you are saying about the editor making it up, and whatever. I think it's a true story, and i think it's very sad. and for you to say that you hate it, is rediculously rude. so you hate a dead girl. that's really mature. I hope your additude changes because having that 'i know everything' additude will not get you very far in life. don't bother posting back because i don't plan on coming back to this site again, i just thought i would tell you my thoughts on your rediculous posts. i hope everyone has a good day.

You're professional.

[Siena Jade]

The books were both alright...I liked Go Ask Alice more than Cut, but Go Ask Alice didn't really feel like a totally real diary to me.

[cheerupxemokid]

if you have.
tell me what you liked about it.
and stuff.
you know. =]

thankkkss <3

[Jinny]

nope, sorry =/
but my friend read it, and she told me that it was good.

[tokyo-rose]

Yeah, I own the book. I like how the girl's nickname is still Silent Treatment even after she starts talking again. I don't remember a lot else that I liked when I first read it, sorry. ><

[*suddenly she*]

I read it a couple years ago. I don't remember it now...
Was this the book where she carved FTW into her hip or something?

[calijade3]

Its a pretty good book.
I read a piece from it for a speech.

[synthase]

I've always wanted to read it..but other books would get in the way..
perhaps next time I will read it

[*Azarel*]

I didn't like Cut. Umm.

Old thread about the same thing.

[hellobarb]

I have.
I like it :]

[Amay]

I read it in like sixth grade.
I liked it.

[micro3214]

i bought it and lost it >_<" it kinda weird that its only 3 chapters

[HakunaMatata]

Old thread about the same thing.

Topics Merged

[x_curse_of_the_c...]

I just read cut it was good but i liked go ask alice better.

[jue]

I read Go Ask Alice and I liked it... up till the ending. I just didn't like the way it ended. It seemed like everything was going good for Alice and then the next thing I know, I'm reading the epilogue, and everything just ends at that. I hate cliffhangers.

[secretwish]

my friend just finished reading go ask alice and she said it was good.
and my other friend read cut during the beginning of the school year. personally, i dont like to read these kind of books. maybe go ask alice, but not cut.

[yupimchuck]

these are my favorite kinds of books

go ask alice,
cut,
crank,
burned,
beauty queen.

ellen hopkins id say is one of my favorite authors
she wrote crank, burned, impulse, and glass (i havent read the last 2 but i plan to as soon asi get the books)

ah haha idk what to say
i love these kinds of books though
ive read so many books i cant even remember them all

and i have a whole list of books i am trying to get so i can read

idk i guess i like reading about peoples messed up lives\

Did no one read my post?

i read it
and idk like,
i feel like youre completely against this book for no reason
i liked go ask alice, just because it was a good book to read
i dont really care if it was true or not.


but, i do have to say i have a book on my list to read by beatrice sparks called it happened to nancy - and you make me not even want to read it.




also,
any book that was said on this thread that is good
ill probably end up reading lol

[ParanoidAndroid]

Cut is such an emo book. I swear... Go Ask Alice makes me laugh. To be so high yet remember so many details and place it on a journal. Don't make me laugh again.

I personally don't like these types of books. No they're not too hard core for me. I find them boring and tedious. You can read way better stories of people with messed up lives.

Read Naked Lunch :D