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AMexisatTurtle OP t1_is4zir4 wrote

Reply to comment by Tayreads608 in Go ask Alice ending (spoilers) by AMexisatTurtle

Does it explain why she writes in such a dumb way cause both the drugs the main charecter supposedly loves require so much it wouldn't be possible to ingest to od on its actually a gross book suggesting people who use drugs never have a chance to get better and redeem themselves even if they forgive themselves

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Denverdogmama t1_is595xm wrote

Considering the fact that the writer was not a teenage girl and was, in fact, a Mormon woman who had probably never tried drugs or been around any other human being who had, the horrible writing is not much of a surprise.

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AMexisatTurtle OP t1_is78nwf wrote

The author was definitely like I don't know anything about this but I've read books on It so I can write a book that is diary format

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Denverdogmama t1_is7dt7r wrote

You really should read Unmask Alice. As I said in a previous comment, I wasn’t keen on the last chapter. But the rest of the book really filled in some of the info I had always wondered about.

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Tayreads608 t1_is57l22 wrote

She was mostly a wannabe writer who jumped on the moral panic that was floating around at the front of the satanic panic. I think she had a pretty strong desire to be known and that resulted in her doing pretty much anything to get published including wildly misrepresenting how drugs work.

Edit: Unmask Alice really digs into how she came to write it and how the world bought into it. It also bright covers some of her other “journals”.

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Denverdogmama t1_is59fap wrote

I did not love the final chapter of Unmask Alice. It seemed tacked on, it contradicted most of the rest of the book and it seemed like the author was trying to cover his ass in case he was sued.

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