Creeping suspicion, as the reader ages past adolescence, that there’s something fishy about the diarist’s life-destroying addiction to LSD and marijuana, not to mention the very premise that a diary kept by a homeless drug addict and “recorded on single sheets of paper, paper bags, etc.” was perfectly preserved for posthumous publication.Titillated horror, for the young reader, at the book’s dramatic depictions of drug use. Everyone who encounters Go Ask Alice goes through the same four stages: Reading Go Ask Alice-the so-called real diary, first published in 1971, of an anonymous girl who took drugs and died-is an experience so widely shared that there’s little point personalizing it.
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