<p>Honestly, there's no way I would have gotten through high school without Sparknotes. Hooray for free, complete, quality summaries!</p>
<p>I love Sparknotes!
I don’t rely just on Sparknotes, but it’s helpful when I want further elaboration on something I’m reading. (I’m the first poster again:/ lol)</p>
<p>^hahahaha, dude, you are the man. We had to read this book for summer like Tess of the D’Urbervilles. I’ve never heard of it before, but Sparknotes, wow, it was clear as day.</p>
<p>^Lucky:) During the summer, I had to read four books for English, but none of them were on Sparknotes:( How depressing:/ O well, all the books we are reading now are, so it will be helpful when I’m confused:)</p>
<p>Yeah, I read The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (pretty easy to understand), The Kite Runner (same), and that book. Were all yours really hard to read?</p>
<p>They weren’t hard to read in terms of the grammar, but three of them were non-fiction so they had a lot of history involved in them. Personally, I like history, so it was interesting for me, but I can see how a 300 page or even the 600 page novels we had to read would be boring to some people. What made it difficult were the prompts we had for the essays. We were just supposed to use the books as references for these big ideas and concepts. Overall though, I liked them:)</p>
<p>Wow, that sounds intense. I also had to read A Short History of Reconstruction for AP US, and history SUCKS for me. You’re so lucky to love history, I’m more of a math/science person. We had to write a critical book review for the history one, but we just have tests on the other books in school.</p>
<p>I love Sparknotes. </p>
<p>I read all my novels and such, but it was so long ago that I needed a refresher, so I read the Sparknotes and took the quizzes there. </p>
<p>They helped out a whole lot.</p>
<p>SparkNotes are EXTREMELY helpful…however I think teachers sign on to sparknotes on a regular basis to check if anyone is stealing summaries</p>
<p>Lauraj100, wow, that sucks. I had this one teacher, last year, the laziest thing I’ve ever seen. She actually took the questions, you know, on like Themes, symbols, and motifs, directly off of sparknotes and put them on a test.</p>
<p>^^Exactly! That’s what my English teacher said she does:/ O well, I only go there if I need help. ^Lol, really? I’m jealous:/</p>
<p>has anyone read “stone angel” before? i have to study it this year for english and just the summary of the book makes me want to kill myself. Its about an old lady looking back on her life… great</p>
<p>I read sparknotes instead of the books and get As in IB English.</p>
<p>One of my English is actually encouraging us to use Sparknotes for his class — I have never witnessed that in my 11 years of schooling.</p>
<p>The one thing I don’t get is when people go out and buy the sparknote book, I mean, it’s online for free, why pay money? ^I would be worried if my teacher told me that, haha.</p>
<p>My school says on all Summer Homework that “using spark notes is plagiarism.” Ridiculous.</p>
<p>I tried sparknotes once, but it just confused me, and I don’t know how to use it. I stopped after that. Besides, I love reading. </p>
<p>Don’t make fun of me =(</p>
<p>It’s still easier to read paper than a 10-pt website text or a pdf. :)</p>
<p>^^^^ I agree - I was a little thrown off when he told us that, but he actually he seemed serious about it. My teachers are honestly freaking me out this year …</p>
<p>I’ve had teachers say to use SparkNotes after we read to make sure we get it…it just ended up that no one in the class read a single book all year</p>