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I admit that I took this book seriously when I read it many years ago. I really felt for Alice’s feeling awkward and like an outsider. What happened rang true enough to me; I knew plenty of fellow high school kids in the 60s and 70s in San Francisco who lived like Alice both before, during, and after her drug use. I was devastated by the ending. Now, reading that this book was possibly published as anti-drug propaganda, I’m thinking that was a campaign wasted: I think this book actually somewhat
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Aug 19, 2014
Penny
marked it as did-not-finish
As I was reading this a little voice in my head was saying, "something doesn't quite ring true here," but I ignored it. Then when I was about halfway through it got too depressing and I decided life was too short. Then I came here to Goodreads and discovered the book was basically a hoax (that is, it was not actually a real diary of a real girl, as advertised, but a work of fiction written by an adult youth counselor and dishonestly passed off as a real diary) and I was just the last one to get
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I picked this book up after my friend read me the button button whos got the botton chapter. I could not belive what I was hearing. It was amazing. I ran out and bought this outstanding book. Its so sad and you feel for this young girl. So powerful I couldn't put it down. Dont pass this winner up!
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My adolescent self LOVED this book. I suspect if I went back today and read it, I'd be less impressed.
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an insightful look into the life of a teenager
Mar 29, 2016
Ray (user2637)
marked it as nope
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Terri FL
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