Ahahahahah OH DUDE JAY'S JOURNAL ohhhhh man oh man. I do not have that one, but I _do_ have a nostalgia copy of Go Ask Alice. Oh man oh man bad seventies Doomed Adolescent books....there was, what, Steffie Can't Come Out to Play, which was about incest and child prostitution and the mean streets, and Lisa Bright and Dark which was about a really medically inaccurate case of schizophrenia, and Angel Dust Blues (which we actually HAD TO READ, in junior high) and I think Lisa and David was still a pretty hot commodity then, and I'm so old someone should hang me up on the wall in a bag.
And oh God you would love a series of evangelical books which were sold in the supermarket when I was a kid -- they had v lurid covers and the titles were, yes, one word, usually the name of a girl -- and sort of weird nicks, too, like Didi or Franqui or Jiji or something -- I can't explain it. ANYHOW, there was much lurid detailing of slide into drugs blahblah and then the teenaged narrator would meet a bright-eyed teenager who had Turned Their Life Around and they would guide the narrator to a kindly older man (no no this is not going that place) and then there would be, like, two quickie pages of proselytizing about how great Jesus was and FIN. They were AWESOME. I devoured them like candy to the great disapproval of my parents. Sadly I do not remember who wrote them or what the titles were now -- I did see one on sale in the "bad books" section of Twice Sold Tales about eight months ago, but SADLY did not buy it. Clearly I was insane.
Snopes on Go Ask Alice (http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp)
Actual SLC kid book was based on (http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=1CA81E52-2BF4-55D0-F1F453565FA53A27)
The only thing better is apparently the kid's brother wrote a book about him and then a rock opera was based on it. A revisionist Satanism-debunking modern rock opera!
(Man, after all this you should so do a Flowers in the Attic post. Or, well, somebody should)
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Date: 2008-03-09 09:55 am (UTC)And oh God you would love a series of evangelical books which were sold in the supermarket when I was a kid -- they had v lurid covers and the titles were, yes, one word, usually the name of a girl -- and sort of weird nicks, too, like Didi or Franqui or Jiji or something -- I can't explain it. ANYHOW, there was much lurid detailing of slide into drugs blahblah and then the teenaged narrator would meet a bright-eyed teenager who had Turned Their Life Around and they would guide the narrator to a kindly older man (no no this is not going that place) and then there would be, like, two quickie pages of proselytizing about how great Jesus was and FIN. They were AWESOME. I devoured them like candy to the great disapproval of my parents. Sadly I do not remember who wrote them or what the titles were now -- I did see one on sale in the "bad books" section of Twice Sold Tales about eight months ago, but SADLY did not buy it. Clearly I was insane.
Snopes on Go Ask Alice (http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp)
Actual SLC kid book was based on (http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=1CA81E52-2BF4-55D0-F1F453565FA53A27)
The only thing better is apparently the kid's brother wrote a book about him and then a rock opera was based on it. A revisionist Satanism-debunking modern rock opera!
(Man, after all this you should so do a Flowers in the Attic post. Or, well, somebody should)