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Brigid

(17,621 posts) Fri May 24, 2013, 05:45 PM May 2013

Older DUers: Remember "Go Ask Alice?"

I saw it today at Barnes & Noble. If it ever was out of print, it's back. 1971. Wow. I was 13 then.

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Older DUers: Remember "Go Ask Alice?" (Original Post) Brigid May 2013 OP

i read it when i was a pre-teen fizzgig May 2013 #1

I remember it, both movie and book irisblue May 2013 #2

Oh yeah! graywarrior May 2013 #3

I remember the tv movie starred William Shatner CBGLuthier May 2013 #4

I'm not "older" but I remember it being assigned as an optional summer read (9th grade). nomorenomore08 May 2013 #5

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)

1. i read it when i was a pre-teen

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Fri May 24, 2013, 05:47 PM

May 2013

early 90s

irisblue

(32,980 posts)

2. I remember it, both movie and book

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Fri May 24, 2013, 05:58 PM

May 2013

Sister Albertine of the Cross of God (serious nun name) caught one girl with that book......vivid memory of her trying to rip it up..

graywarrior

(59,440 posts)

3. Oh yeah!

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Fri May 24, 2013, 06:00 PM

May 2013

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

4. I remember the tv movie starred William Shatner

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Fri May 24, 2013, 06:01 PM

May 2013

I also remember it as heavy-handed and anything but subtle.

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

5. I'm not "older" but I remember it being assigned as an optional summer read (9th grade).

Reply to Brigid (Original post)

Fri May 24, 2013, 06:32 PM

May 2013

Never actually read it, but it strikes me as being something like a literary version of "Reefer Madness." And in fact the book did turn out to be completely fictitious.

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