Monday, March 28, 2011

Go Ask Alice

I read Go Ask Alice by an Anonymous. there are about 200 pages and it came out in 2008.

Go ask alice is a real diary about a 15 year old drug user. The diary goes from when she bought the diary through all her trips and highs with drugs. It doesnt mention her name. During the summer, when Anonymous was 15, she stayed with grandparents. She run into Jill who invites her to a party. Anonymous is served a coke laced with LSD. Over the next few days Bill introducers anonymous to torpedos, speed, and acid. She doesnt know why she is hooked but she hates it. Over the next  few months, she takes sleeping pills, and trangulizers. Anonymous meets Chris, Ted, and Richie and Anonymous run away to San Francisco, where they stay clean until Chris' boss Sheila invites them to a party which pot is being used. After this, they become hooked again. At another party Shiela invites them too, Shiela and Rod gave them herion and raped Chris and Anonymous. They set of to Berkeley and started a store. They decided to go home and stay clean. someone slipped Anonymous pills. Anonymous was high and she ran  off to Denver. The diary is not dated through this period. Anonymous goes home and people start asking her for drugs. While she is babysitting someone sneaks in and leaves peanuts lined with LSD. the nieghbors lack her in the closer to where she tries to find her way out. Anonymous is sent to a mental hospital. a few weeks later, she is out and she decides to stop keeping a diary. 3 weeks later, Anonymous' parents come home to find her dead.  Noone knows if it was accidental overdose or premeditated.

I liked this book because it shows all the details and what this 15 year old went through because she got hooked on drugs. It is sad, she died and it shows how hard drugs can be to get off of when you are introduced to hard core drugs.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Harry Potter

This week I read Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secret. The book came out in 1998 and there are 341 pages.
The main characters are Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dobby, Jenny, and Tom Riddle. 
Harry was getting ready to go back to school, when Dobby came to Harry’s house to warn him about the danger.  Harry goes back to the school anyways. When he gets there, everything is fine but in a few months things start to change for the worst. Students start to go to the hospital wing. They couldn’t figure out what was wrong with them or who was putting them in the hospital. When Harry and Ron figured out what was going on, Hermione was already in the hospital. Tom Riddle was trying to kill harry because of the wizard that tried to kill him when he was younger. Tom Riddle had Jenny’s help with putting people into the hospital. Tom was going to hurt Jenny, if Ron and Harry didn’t hurry up and find here. When Ron and Harry finally found the chamber of secrets it was almost too late for Jenny. In the end Harry had got rid of Tom Riddle. After Tom Riddle left, harry was found and he was put in the hospital. After he got better it was about time for summer break.

I liked this book a lot. I think it was a good read. The book didnt teach me any life learning skills but it was a good book to read. I really encourage everyone to read Harry Potter and and The Chamber of Secret