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How long does it take to read Go Ask Alice?

Beatrice Sparks

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks takes about 3 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 24 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1971. 185 pages, about 50,875 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 39 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 24 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 7 minutes

The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th After you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs… It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth—and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her. For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl’s harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful—and as timely—today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction.

Subjects: homelessness, bad trips, psychiatric hospitals, child prostitution, probation, hitchhiking

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