Pregúntale a Alicia

Por Anónimo

Un testimonio sobre el mundo de las drogas entre los adolescentes. Resultan perturbadoras la facilidad con la que se puede entrar en él y la soledad que encuentra aquel joven que, en su desesperada búsqueda de aceptación, cae una y otra vez en ese seductor abismo. Este diario relata la experiencia de una joven de quince años que en una fiesta se inicia en el consumo de drogas.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Quarzo
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 23 oct 2021
• ISBN: 9786074572544

Anónimo

Hay diferentes hipótesis sobre su autoría. Probablemente el autor fue simpatizante de las ideas erasmistas. Esto motivó que la Inquisición la prohibiera y que, más tarde, permitiera su publicación, una vez expurgada. La obra no volvió a ser publicada íntegramente hasta el siglo XIX.

Comentarios para Pregúntale a Alicia

[briealeida-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I read this quite some time ago but I couldn't put it down.

[dr_cicle · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Everyone, including one of my roommates told me how amazing this book was and when I saw it at my local bookstore, I couldn't resist buying it. I read the whole book in one night because I couldn't sleep and decided to get this book off of my TBR stacked in my room. This book to me was okay. At some parts of the book, I absolutely hated the main character and her view on the situation that she was in. I did, in fact, love her friend Chris because she reminded me of my best friend. The pacing on the book was extremely fast paced but I expected that from a diary writing style but still.I feel like I couldn't get through some parts of the book as easily because they were triggering me because of my past and my family. Maybe if I didn't have the background that I did, I would of enjoyed this book more. If you or a close family member has a history of drug addiction, I advice you not to read this book.Overall I don't think this book was as great as I expected to be. I'm unsure if I'll read any of the other books similar to this one but I'll just have to see

[auntieknickers · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I've listed this as fiction, without checking any reference sources. However, when everyone was reading it during my college years, most people believed it was true. A cautionary tale, for sure.

[cemagoc · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

New word: book-angry
When a book makes you so mad you don't want to think about it, yet somehow can't get it out of your head. Often side effects include writing raging attack reviews or looking up as much information as possible to make the mondo popularity of the book seem less inhibiting for said bibliomaniac.

There's no way this book is a true story, epilogue especially. The nonchalance about rape is unbelievably insensitive.

Still, never trying LSD.

[amalone6076students · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I would have to say this has been one of the most interesting books i have eer read. This story will make you think about how you look at the world and its mysteries. This book makes you relise that the world isn't an easy place and that you have to work hard to achieve what you want in life.

[mezmariahz · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I have always really liked this book. I don't care if it's a real account or not... I think it's a raw, sometimes painfully honest account of what it feels like to grow up in a world you don't feel you belong to, and the things you do along the way to try to feel like you do. I read this for this first time about 10 years ago when I was the same age as the protaganist, and have also read it since becoming an adult. Even now it resonates with me. 'Alice' is lost and naive, and invariably uses drugs as an inroad to connect with her peers and make friends. It's not long before she's going to these parties just for the party favors and new 'experiences'. She carries on almost a love affair with the different drugs, displaying clearly a love-hate relationship with them. They make her feel wonderful and free and connected. They make her feel rotten and empty and detached from society more than ever. I think the sometimes romanticizing of her addiction, and the drugs, is eerily accurate of todays youth. So many people are fascinated by the allure of drugs, thinking they will take them to this glamourous, other-wordly place, but they are so obsessed with the instant gratification that they cease to think about the consequences. The aftermath- the addiction factor, the potentially life-wrecking 'side effects', etc. Go Ask Alice explores all of this very honestly, and if it's not a real account, it reads like one.

[shahnareads · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I love diaries. I couldn't put it down. So much was going on.
I feel bad for her. If she was actually a real person. I would hug her if I could.

[reinadecopiaypega · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I was not sure how many stars to give this book because it was read by me decades apart. The first time I read it I was probably around 11, and loved it and read it many times. When I was waxing nostalgic in my late 40s, I took it out from the library and only got thru one or two chapter - the parade had clearly past me by, and it saddened me somewhat, that something I loved so much as a young person was so boring and juvenile to me later in life.

[ashabrown · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

This story perfectly demonstrates the struggles of a teenager facing peer pressure. Alice a teenage girl is wrapped in a world of drugs and partying. The author describes this through diary entries that make you get attached to her life.

[lydia1879 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

So, I read this at 15, which is the age you're supposed to read it, and I have to say, I didn't enjoy it very much.

The narrative voice was quite strong in the beginning, but it began to lose its impact towards the end. I also discovered during that time, that the book, which reported to be a true story, wasn't.

This, as a young woman, really irritated me. I felt as though I was being lied to, and it was really condescending. I don't mind if it's not true, but if it's not true, call it fiction. As a teenager, I was interested in exploring drugs, sex and other 'taboo' topics through books - a safe venue for me to do so. I probably would've picked this book up even if it were fiction, but the fabricated nature of this book just left me feeling a little bit cold.

It's a shame, because other than that, it's a pretty solid book. I didn't enjoy the ending, like I said, and I found a few inconsistencies, but now I just don't feel comfortable recommending this book to anyone.

Read this book, if you like, but you might be better off choosing something else instead.

[jenn88-1 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I read this book when I was fifteen. I don’t care whether it’s fact or fiction; I was engrossed.

A fifteen year old girl writes in her journal almost every day for a year about her spiral into a world of drugs.

[nm7fall077knelson · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

i really liked this book because it was a true story. it really got into detail about everything and let you know what drugs can do to you and how they can efffect you and mess up your life. it was really sad because she ends up dying . i think that this book was beyond amazing and i think every teen should read it because it has a really good purpose to it.

[nickelini · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

I found this book fascinating when I read and reread it as a teen back in the '70s. So I was shocked and almost heartbroken when I found out that it was anti-drug propaganda written by Beatrice Sparks. While I now find it somewhat laughable, something about it still has merit, and I recommend it to the teenage reader.

[wenzowsa_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

innocence, memoir, non-fiction, drugs, loss

[rainidontmind · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I remember being appropriately impressed and horrified by this book at the time as it made its way around my group of friends. Apparently it was all some Reagen-esque lie. Whatever.

[8ps01gro · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

I really enjoyed reading the book Go Ask Alice. I recommend all teens to read this book because it really helps you realize how drugs can really affect your life. The book keeps you interested because it is based on a true story which is what I really liked. An anonymous girl who tries to turn her life around after dealing with drug abuse which becomes very interesting to see how hard it was for her to change. I like this book because it could really help someone realize that drugs could change your whole life and it’s never too late to try and turn your life around.

[patrickhackeling13 · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous is the forbidden diary of an American teenager in the drug hyped 1960s. The narrator takes us on an emotional rollercoaster as she feels the joys of drug use and the doom of it. Exclamations of, "I want to be pure! I want to be pure!" devastate the text while at the same time the narrator is too addicted to give up her bad habits. Lying, stealing, cheating, abandoning, and fulfilling the Biblical Lost Son Parable by returning home, by the diaries end we are given great hope that "Alice" has learned from her devious past and will be able to turn over a new leaf. These hopes are abruptly dashed when we find out just weeks after completing this diary, the narrator overdosed on narcotics.Drug addiction. Powerful writing. Drug dependency. Emotional and physical withdrawal. Life. Death. These are only a few of the many themes that Go Ask Alice by Anonymous explore.

[shmuffin · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

This was always a favorite of mine growing up. I couldn't understand completely at a young age but after seeing friends and others around me suffer from the addictions of drugs and even dying from overdosing I have come to accept the real world Alice lives in. It is the book that possibly kept me on the smart side of life and away from the alluring drug world. Thank you Alice.

[smg6bcarothers · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

It's sad but it's good to read .

[supermanlver · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

An upsetting, yet awesome book about a teenage girl who is accidentally thrown into the horrible world of drug addiction. The book is the girl's diary (i believe it's during the 70's but i cannot be sure). Because i want to become a psychiatrist, this book really helped me to get into the head of a teenage girl as she started from a high position in her life, and traveled through a tragic plumet, until the drug lifestyle eventually overcame her. It is really a sad novel but i was interested the entire time. During my time reading this, though, i just wanted to shake the girl and tell her that everything would be alright if she just learned to shape up and get back onto the right track. Like watching a train wreck and knowing that there was nothing you could do about it. A very gripping novel. I was deeply fascinated by the events and suffering and obstacles that this girl had to face.

[sydculture · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

So far the only piece of literature I've encountered that states exactly what I've experienced within the drug world. Acid is addictive man, ask the people who do it. I thought she was annoying though.

[jadesbooks · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

~Just remember that this book is a work of fiction.~ One of my employees introduced this book to me. After reading parts of her copy, I went and bought my own. This has to be one of the most heartfelt accounts of an addict. This young girl was caught up in a world of drugs and did not know how to begin to get her life straight. The end of the memoir leaves you feeling lost. Definately a book to re-read, and give to everyone as a warning of the dangers of drugs and how easy it is to get caught up in the high.

[brennasheridan · Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas]

Based on the real diary entries of an anonymous teenage girl in America. Although the entries in this book were written in the ‘70s and they contain some “dated” language, the message about the effects of teen pressures, peer-influences, drugs, and sex have still been valid issues through many generations, and unfortunately continue to be. This book also shows a great example of the theme of parent/child relationships, and how important it is to listen to your children as well as talk to them.

[bookwormygirl · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

Told in diary entries by an unnamed girl (which for purposes of this review we shall call "Alice"), it chronicles her life and her struggle with her addiction to drugs.Now I'm obviously reading this many years after its original publication of 1971. And from what I've read, it seems that originally it was thought to be a real-life diary. Beatrice Sparks who was originally editor, eventually stated that this was one of her patient's diary and she used several of the passages in it to create the book. But it seems that since then much of that has also been questioned and they are now selling it with an inscription in the first pages stating that this is a complete work of fiction and not to be thought otherwise.With that said, whether you believe Go Ask Alice is non-fiction or fiction, or even anti-drug propaganda, it should not make a difference on whether or not you read this book. It is, what it is - a story about a young girl living in the mid to late 60's who gets seduced into the world of drugs. Her diary entries detail her first encounter at a party, becoming an addict, selling drugs at school , running away, rape, more drugs and eventually using sex to acquire even more drugs. So what if it's not a true story. I'm sure this can easily be someone's "true" story.My only concern is that it feels outdated. I think as a whole parents today have learned from "our" parents' mistakes. I think we know the signs of drug use and what changes to look for in our children. I also don't really know overly much about drugs - so I can't say for sure that Alice's addiction and the speed in which it all transpires is credible.I'm not sure if it's still banned in schools, but I know at one point the book was pulled off the shelves and, in the cases where it wasn't, they removed some of the more graphic parts in the book. After reading Go Ask Alice, I can say that I would definitely let my kids (obviously when they are tweens, since they are both toddlers at the moment) read this. If for no other reason than to have them open up and talk about drugs. I know and am hopeful that by reading something like this they might remember that while at a party they should never drink from a cup they themselves didn't pour or even that "I'll just try it once" can be life altering.All in all, I found it to be an interesting book, even if it is untrue.

[bplma_1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Presented as a real diary written by an unnamed 15 year old drug user, Go Ask Alice follows the life of a middle class suburban teenager for a year and a half as she begins to experiment with and later becomes addicted to drugs. The narrator eventually runs away from home only to end up living a drug addicted life on the streets; stealing and prostituting herself, preyed upon by men and other young addicts, alternately sick from grief and withdrawal, she eventually returns home and is faced with all the difficulties of getting and staying clean, as well as re-entering the cruel and unforgiving social world of her old high school. It all takes place against the backdrop of all the usual teenage life situations: popularity, body image, romance, fitting in, parent problems, school issues, etc. The story is presented in the first person through the diary entries that, presumably, we were never meant to read. Okay, it’s dated. (“The fuzz has clamped down until the town is mother dry”p.96-97).) But the story is still frighteningly believable and the dramatic ending, a notice that after the last, hope filled, diary entry the girl was found dead from a drug overdose, leaves open the question of whether “Alice’s” OD was intentional or not. 09/06

[vgnunez_1 · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

An amazing book that portrays a young girl's experience with drug use. It's thoroughly engrossing and the issues the narrator bring up are still relevant to middle and high schoolers today. Though the book occasionally reveals itself to be dated the language and the issues it addresses are still relatable. I think this would be a great book for both middle and high schoolers to discuss amongst themselves as well as with their parents.

[kelly1992-1 · Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas]

Some parts are very strong and really suck you in but the big anti-drug campaign this book is giving off takes you right back to the real world. That, for me, was the only negative thing about it. If you can look past that then you are ready a very sad, gripping story of a young girl slowly losing control.

[karryd-1 · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I'm really not sure what I think of this book. I mistakenly thought when I started reading it that it was a true story. At first it just made me sick to read what was going on (I have three teenagers and the thought of drug addiction terrifies me). Then as a got a little more into the book I realized it couldn't be non-fiction, so I did a little research and found out that it wasn't, only parts of it were (if that). Are the experiences with drugs that the protagonist had anything close to real? I don't know- the message about how awful drugs are and how they can take over your life I can appreciate and the story was definitely a fast read, but for me this is a highly overrated book.

[pinkbeckie · Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas]

I read this book years ago. And I still have it, and read it once in a while. I feel like this is a book every single mother, father, parent, and child should read. This book shows the story of a girls life, and how it literally spirals out of control. This is not a "current" book, nor does it have our current lingo, but it does have the same effect no matter what year you live in, teenagers using drugs is a problem. In this book you see how a perfectly "normal" and "tyipical" young girl decends into drug use, and then drug abuse, and how quickly drugs can take over your life. Yes, this book is very emotional and may not be for all younger children, but i do think that once parents think their teenager can handle this book, that they should read it. I know a lot of parents who would "forbid" any books about drugs, but it is so important that teenagers and young adults can see what is out there, and know the consenquences. I think it is a wonderful thing when parents and teenagers can talk about drug use/ addiction and the consenquences together. Talking can save a life.

[portialong · Calificación: 2 de 5 estrellas]

I found this book much more intriguing when I read it first in college, at that time I took it at face-value - a "actual diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user." On critical re-read later in life the inconsistancies are more apparent - it seems to string together events that MAY have happened to various people at various points in time and been re-interpreted by the author to present a "shocking" tale. Included in my library now as an example of 1970s anti-drug propaganda for the influences it has had over the decades.