Who read Go Ask Alice growing up?

[RiffRandell]

I read it in elementary school (I know, pretty young) as it was passed down to me from my older sister.

I still have the copy in my book collection.

It came out a few years ago that it was fiction.

I was going through my books this morning and found it. Blast from the past.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. check.

[lastlib]

2. Check.

My English teacher made it required reading after a girl OD'd on acid in school one day.

Wish I could find my old copy...........

[RiffRandell]

3. Yikes!

What year was that? I didn't know you could OD on acid; I just thought you could have a bad trip. Unfortunately or fortunately, I'm pretty knowledgeable about drugs.



My mother used to tell me acid makes people jump out of windows. I also heard if you tripped 15 times you were considered mentally insane. Which now reminds me of the character M&M in an S. E Hinton book I can't think of that had a bad trip.

Here's a link on GAA--I guess it's not published anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Ask_Alice

[lastlib]

12. maybe it was just a bad trip. I just remember thw whole school was freaked over it.

They took the girl out of the school in an ambulance, I remember. Her father was on the school board, which made it really interesting. Beyond that, I don't remember a lot of details about the incident (hey, it was the early seventies--we're not supposed to remember much, right?)

[RiffRandell]

13. Lol!

True! I was born in 1970, so I was just a baby.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. damn. I wonder what happened to my old copy.

lost or sold in one of the many moves, I suppose.

[RiffRandell]

8. In my copy the pages are yellow and it stinks.

I'm keeping it though!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. oh yeah, keeper for sure - haven't thought about that little book in a long time

think I was, maybe twelve when I read it ...

[RiffRandell]

10. I was in fourth grade.

Which would make me 9 or 10 I guess? I was the last of 5 kids and wasn't planned, so I think my parents were so tired they let me do anything as long as I was keeping out of trouble. That came later.

I was reading my Mom's Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldon books in junior high. I loved Rage of Angels.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. Harold Robbins and Sidney Sheldon books, oh yeah ... don't remember Rage of Angels, though. -

Mom and Dad never censored my reading ... my behavior was a different thing but, in some ways they were very lenient. or else just to busy to pay attention

[abbeyco]

14. I learned a lot about sex from the Harold Robbins books

Rage of Angels was one of my favorite books, too - great story. The Other Side of Midnight and If Tomorrow Comes were great stories, too.

I had my Go Ask Alice and Are You God, It's Me - Margaret, and Forever (the other big deal sex novel) for the longest time and think I donated all of them. Alice scared me to death - and my brother was experimenting with lots of drugs at the time so it just magnified things for me.

[ohiosmith]

5. I have never heard of anyone ODing on acid! She must've taken one hell of a dose!

[Grantuspeace]

6. I saw the movie on the afternoon movie when I got home from elementary school.

I would guess that I was 9 or 10 around 1970? I was a very well adjusted kid but this movie disturbed me. I was at the point when I was beginning to question things. And I had siblings 7 and 9 years older than me. It would be interesting to see it again.

[RiffRandell]

7. I wanted to see it but never did.

1973--youtube has the whole movie. I may have to watch it now. Check out the cast--Shatner was in it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068644/

[cyberswede]

15. I read it - loved it (I was 14 or 15, I think)

I still have a copy. My English teacher told me it was fiction, but I swore up & down that it HAD to be real! Though I read it in the early 80s, it seemed to be exactly what I pictured the 60s to be like for a teenager. Now I feel silly for thinking that.

Funny you should post about this today...the DU Hippie Temptation thread got me thinking about that book just yesterday. Gawd - the narration of that documentary is priceless.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017104841

[Brigid]

16. Read it in high school.

That was the seventies. I remember hearing back then that it was fiction. I didn't realize it was no longer published.