<p>The Lincoln at Gettysburg finally arrived at me on 2008.08.08, I am grateful for this special olympic present(though I'd be better off without it). I'm pretty sure I cannot finish reading it, so can anyone give me an overview about this book? I think I shall have some ideas about this book before discussions start. Thanks!</p>
<p>It's an extremely easy read.. you should be able to finish it</p>
<p>It's less than 200 pages. Surely you can read 20 pages a day?</p>
<p>Have you seen some of the comments on Facebook?</p>
<p>i am just going to try and write one of the essays without reading the book. i got it a month ago but it is just too boring to read. even my dad who is a lincoln fanatic said the book was truly "mind numbingly dull"</p>
<p>I'm going to let you in on a little secret....</p>
<p>You don't really need to read the stupid summer reading book.</p>
<p>I barely got through mine and essentially they break you up into little groups with someone to talk about the book. Most people didn't say a word and it was a joke.</p>
<p>PS. You don't really need to read the book.</p>
<p>A lot of people in my group had read the book, and some had even prepared comments. I didn't read it, and didn't say a word, but it was an interesting experience winging that essay with random quotes I picked out of the book.</p>
<p>ROFL. I never wrote an essay, neither did anyone in my group.</p>
<p>i plan to try and finish and then read the summary on bookrags.com and of course bs the essay.</p>
<p>do i even really have to go to the group? i dont plan on reading it or writing an essay so i figure its better to not risk embarrassing myself by not knowing anything.</p>
<p>don't read it. it's pointless. i bs'ed my essay and discussion. at least you guys didn't have the pickup. **** the pickup</p>
<p>well, I got mine TODAY! 8/13/08, which means I have a week to read the book and write the essay before I jump on the plane....</p>
<p>question: will they make you read your essay out loud during the small discussion groups? and you don't have to contribute anything if you don't want to, right?</p>
<p>i have the same question- do we have to go to the reading groups?</p>
<p>why is everyone refering to it as an essay? It's a short response that should be ** no more than one-two pages <a href="direct%20quote%20from%20the%20paper%20we%20got%20with%20the%20book">/b</a>. So, write a paragraph or two and you're done..</p>
<p>Is it double-spaced or single-spaced?</p>
<p>double. you can pretty much do what you want aka write nothing or completely off topic if you insist on actually writing something haha</p>
<p>I'm busy watching olympic games right now so I don't have time and don't want to read that book...</p>
<p>@diehldun:
Can you please give me the link to those comments?</p>
<p>i read most of the book.. just not the 4th chapter
i thought it was a complete BORE
sorry if i offended anyone who thought it was amazing...
it just wasn't my type of preferred reading</p>
<p>just write your entire essay on the title or other people's perceptions of it XD</p>
<p>I found the book interesting; it shouldn't take more than an hour to put together a coherent half-page.</p>