<p>Has anyone ever tried those Sparknote's "SAT Vocabulary Novels"? What did you think? Are they are that effective? Hum...</p>
<p>No,I suggest reading Divine Comedy, Heart of Darkness, and Catch-22</p>
<p>I tried one once, and I didn't feel that it helped me any ...</p>
<p>I borrowed KAplan's Frankenstein from my library. It was ok. having the words defined right there is very handy. However, there weren't enough "hard" words defined to make a difference in my vocabulary aftwerwards. Most books are like that.</p>
<p>i read sparknotes busted, it was kind of interesting lol (im ashamed to say) and i learned a few words too. But some of the words are used awkwardly, and it sounds like they just used a thesaurus to look up random words. But for the SAT's i think its pretty effective.</p>
<p>how about the vocab for dummies book? not quite a novel but sorta kinda like one I think.</p>
<p>eh..my dad got me one of the kaplan's SAT vocab novels and even though there are a lot of words a lot of them are pretty easy. i'd definitely rather just read a book that interests me and look up any of the words i don't know than read a book specifically for learning vocab.</p>