Has anyone read this book? It's the supposed true story of a teenager, although I think it's true, but was heavily edited. I've heard rumours it was could have been Diane Linkletter, but again, just a rumour (from the IMDB), but it's the only lead I've ever heard up to this point. I'm really curious to know WHO Alice really was.

Asking if anyone has read Go Ask Alice is a bit like asking if anyones read The Bell Jar. But anyway. Beatrice Sparks, the 'editor' and owner of the copyright is probably the author.

In an October 1979 interview with Aileen Pace Nilsen for School Library Journal, Sparks claimed that Go Ask Alice had been based on the diary of one of her patients, but that she had added various fictional incidents based on her experiences working with other troubled teens. She said the real "Alice" had not died of a drug overdose, but in a way that could have been either an accident or suicide. She also stated that she could not produce the original diary, because she had destroyed part of it after transcribing it and the rest was locked away in the publisher's vault.

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i like when alice and her friend to come home to find their respective boyfriends fagging out on each other.

I know it kind of is made up, but it just seems so real, the emtions and feelings associated with it, just feel real. I can't explain it. It's very weird that Diane Linkletter died October 4, and 'Alice' stopped writing Septemeber 21, it says in the epoligue that Alice died 3 weeks after her decision to not keep a diary. How strange is that?

Are you a fucking moron? You must be. I can't even address the multitude of ways. JESUS.

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