<p>Has anyone tried the sat vocab novels yet? I just wanted to know what you thought of them and if they'd be any help.</p>
<p>They don't help..I've read a few by sparknotes and they use like 8 words per page, and its just impossible to memorize them all. And they make a pretty lame attempt at appealing to high school students.</p>
<p>my neck was hurt everytime i looked down for the definition lol</p>
<p>is it helpful for the sat at all?</p>
<p>not really, occasionally id remember a word from it</p>
<p>I've glanced at these novels, and they're ridiculously stupid. The only way to really learn more vocab is to read real novels and nonfiction!</p>
<p>In reference of the Sparknote novels,</p>
<p>I read all 5 in six days: rave new world, sun-kissed, head over heels, busted, vampire killer, simply because i just moved and i don't have cable hooked up. I'm sure if you've read one book, you might be innudated with all the vocab they throw at you first, but if you keep reading the other books that sparknotes has out, they repeatdly use the same 1000 words with a couple of added new ones. It practically is embedded in your head after your done reading them. I believe that a couple of the books had some stupid plots to a select few, but i felt that they were entertaining b/c it was like watchin a sitcom on tv. Rave new world was a good depiction and spin-off of a dystopian book. Also i believe it will help you with your eye speed, when you read words for critical reading. I definetely would get a few of these books if you don't have anything to read. Also you should read 1984 and brave new world, those books were chalk full of sat words. The only problem that i encountered with the spark notes books is that sometimes the definitions they gave for the words don't really seem like the right ones, but maybe they possibly are, or maybe they were using it in context.</p>
<p>P.S. the books that Kaplan have out, such as Frankenstein, Edgar allen poe, withering heights, and scarlett, they aren't nearly as good as sparknotes imho</p>