<p>what helps you the most</p>
<p>Definitely Sparknotes. I wouldn't advise relying on it 100%, but it definitely does help if you don't completely understand the reading or if you aren't caught up with your reading.</p>
<p>The English teachers that I've had have actually read Cliff and Spark notes and sometimes base their comprehension tests on the obscure little facts that aren't on the sites, but obvious if you actually read it...just to catch those that don't actually read the book. It actually became a big joke in AP Lang last year. Just be careful to not become too reliant on it though. For some material (Shakespeare), Sparknotes is dead on, but with some other books, a lot of important details are completely missed.</p>
<p>Sparknotes are the best. ^^^Yeah, don't rely too much on it...it helps only to a certain degree. Doesn't make up for not reading a book.</p>
<p>I vote sparksnotes. Much more comprehensive.</p>
<p>I also had a teacher who would skim through it and choose obscure facts.</p>
<p>Sparknotes</p>
<p>Sparknotes is the way to go, but a little cliffnotes can be a little helpful.</p>
<p>I use sparknotes/cliffnotes always, rest I haven't even heard of.</p>
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I disagree. I've never read a single book this year in full length other than 1984, and everything was fine. </p>
<p>Eh, granted, probably not 100%, but most of the time it worked perfectly fine for me.</p>
<p>I think the only one I ever used in high school was sparknotes.</p>
<p>Sparknotes <3</p>
<p>BOOKRAGS!!!!! the most detailed explanation you will find.</p>
<p>sparknotes!</p>
<p>Since many of my teachers know that we like to use "Sparky," I've been a fan of "GradeSaver" (just google it). It offers a more complex analysis of classics.</p>
<p>Sparknotes!</p>
<p>sparknotes ftw!</p>
<p>gradesaver!</p>
<p>sooo much better than sparknotes. Our teachers also know that we use that source, so they specifically ask questions not in the sparknotes explanations. But gradesaver is detailed enough to fly under the radar.</p>
<p>I use a combination of sparknotes, cliffsnotes, and bookrags. Chances are any info left out in one will be covered in another.</p>
<p>I cross referenced bookrags and sparknotes (and occasionally cliffnotes)= the best for me.
Edit: Lol, never mind. ^ covered it.</p>
<p>high=five sevitagen :) exactly what I meant</p>
<p>bookrags suck cuz there are stuff that you can't even access w/o paying :(</p>
<p>I know for a fact my teacher uses Cliffnotes. When I wrote a poem on cheating and I included pretty much every booknote site, she circled Cliffnotes and wrote "Well, I certainly hope not."</p>
<p>I would use Bookrags all the time but a lot of the stuff you have to pay to use. The quotation pages on Bookrags is by far the most useful. I like Sparknotes and Cliffsnotes because they are always free while I can block all the ads because of Firefox add-ons.</p>
<p>Monkeynotes apparently doesn't get enough ad-revenue and also charges a fee. Sparknotes is so popular because it offers the full thing for free and only makes it more convenient if you pay for it.</p>