"Adolescents have a rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults." 
 Despite being written in the 70's, Go Ask Alice has a timeless feel to it. I found the narrator's high school experience to be quite relatable (minus the traumatic experiences). The narrator's initial experience with drugs was interesting but her downward spiral towards substance abuse, depression and other traumatic events, lacked substance. These events were mentioned in passing with a lot of gaps in between. It didn't give readers much of a glimpse into what the narrator was feeling or how she was coping with the constant bad luck that seems to plague her life. The diary consisted mostly of "this is what I did today" type of content when it should have had more "this is how I feel/this is what I'm thinking" kind of content (she even goes into detail about her dad's birthday but skips the details about her psychological state when she was hospitalized).