Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Sparknotes or Read the Book for Oliver Twist?

I am analyzing if sparknotes is just as good, worse, or better than reading the actual book. Sparknotes has just the summary of each chapter, as reading the book gives you each intricate detail.

Sparknotes can be somewhat similar to reading the actual book, it just depends on how much detail is put in on it. Sparknotes gives the main ideas of each paragraph, like sending Oliver with Mr. Sowerberry, but Sparknotes doesn't explain about Mr. Sowerberry, they just say he is an Undertaker. Some information is left out in Sparknotes, but sometimes the information is good enough to read it at a Scholarly level.

I think that Sparknotes is sometimes better than the actual book, because it takes less time to read, and it gives the main ideas. In Oliver Twist though, the Sparknotes version doesn't give as many details as needed. It is well written in spaknotes, but it looks weird, because all of the ads get in the way and makes it annoying. Other than the ads and the left out details, Spaknotes is pretty reliable.

Sparknotes is useful when you forget to read, or you have a big test and you want to go over the chapters you don't remember. It is useful to give you the main information about a book, but it will leave out some of the little detail that you may need for a less important question. Sparknotes is actually very helpful at times though. So if you are out of time and need to know about a book use Sparknotes.

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