Logical errors run rampant throughout this book. Definitely stay away from it.

If you have just one week to study, and plan to spend less than $30. This book with ETS Official Guide is what I recommend you to get. Cliff Notes gives a brief review, give you one diagnostic test. If you have $100 budget and months to study for the test, this book would like be as helpful as other books. However, If you only have one week and just want to have a brief prep, this is a must have.

It's worthy every cent you invest on it. Despite the fact that it's not as fashionable as some others like Kaplan, Princeton, etc. Cliffs does a very serious job, covering all GMAT subjects and providing many good questions with explanations.

This book was not a good study guide for the middle grade content test 0146. It was very misleading and I ended up studying things I did not need. The information I needed for the test was not in this book!!!

This book has a couple different subjects for you to read on. For each of the subjects it has reviews and practice tests. It explains everything very clearly and gives you a great idea of how to prepare.

These two books were a waist of my time and money. I highly recommend that you not buy these. I did not like them because it was about nothing. I read and read (waisting time and time) trying to find something. "Did I?," you ask....NO! these are horrible books. Thank you.

Some people did not think much of the play, but I thought it was an excellent play. The charecter laura in the play is a crippled girl who feels that she is unable to do anything because she is crippled. Laura keeps a glass menagerie and is very attached to it because she feels they are like her, fragile and transparent. One of the glass charecters resembles her because it is different from all the other animals. Tom, who is Laura's brother wants to leave his house and do something adventurous with his life, but can't until his sister finds a suitible match. Amanda is their mother, who feels self-pity because her husband left her and she has to take care of two children. She keeps reminding Laura of how she always had so many gentelmen callers and Laura has none. This play ended sadly but made a good point.

This review is of James L. Roberts' Cliffs Notes for "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire," and not the plays by Tennessee Williams. Roberts begins with a look at the Author's Life and Background to explain how Williams' personal life and experiences are directly related to the subject matter of his dramas. His look at "The Glass Menagerie" offers a Synopsis and a list of Characters, as well as an introductory section of Structure Through Memory teachers/readers will find useful before they start reading the play. The Scene Summaries & Commentaries make a point of signposting the analysis (A, B, C, etc.), which is also quite useful. As always, those dealing with these yellow books with the black stripes can make the best use of the analysis if they look at it after they have read the corresponding section in the play. This is a tad difficult with Williams since he does not use traditional "scene" divisions, leaving it to Roberts to make those divisions. A Character Analysis of all four characters follows.

Roberts follows the same format in looking at "A Streetcar Named Desire," setting the play up in terms of Structure Through Contrasts. I do want to point out that his Character Analysis on this particular play shows as much depth as you will find in any Cliffs Notes. Even thought he has to deal with two plays in this one volume, Roberts presents a lot of useful analysis that underscores the importance of character in these classic plays by Williams. "The Glass Menagerie" is almost a forgotten play at this point, but "Streetcar" remains a classic drama of the American theater. A minor complaint is that Roberts does not deal with the "happy" ending tacked on the celebrated film version, but that will just be another fascinating class discussion you can have if you screen the film (the "restored" version, of course). Give your students the opportunity to see Brando's performance, the finest in cinema history.

I just took the SAT today and I feel that this book changed nothing. Although it has an O.K. grammar section, I've seen better. The analogy and critical reading section were [garbage]. It had nearly no vocbulary building strategies. Plus, the book was outdated.(1986 - please!)This book also knew next to nothing about the tests.(and what it did was outdated) I bought it because it was cheap and covered both the SAT and ACT, so I thought it might be good. Was I in for a big shock! Don't be enticed by the low price, you can find better, newer, updated books on the market.

I loved this book! All your question you have about grammer are here! You might not know whether to use who or whom or when to use few or less. This book has a fantastic index also for when you want to touch up on certain subjects (i.e. who/whom). There are also some great vocabulary words in here. A must buy!

One of the worst study guides I have come across, written by one of the most unpleasant individuals I have ever had the misfortune to know. Mr. Dewsnap shows the same inconsideration towards Golding that characterizes his behavior towards so many other fine authors. Of course, what would you expect from a man who once cut off the power supply to an entire college campus, and more, by felling a tree on power lines?

This book is awful--but then, Mr. Dewsnap has done little that's productive.

So what's up with the 4/21/02 review by John Fout? The man obviously has some sort of personal vendetta against Dewsnap that leaves him unable to write an objective review. He never says what's wrong with the book--he just tells some story about Mr. Dewsnap felling a tree over power lines. I have read the study guide and found it to be clear, well-organized, and helpful. So don't be deterred by Fout's rantings.

I had to read this book for school, and I looked at it read the back and thought "oh my god I am never going to get through this",but the more I read the more involved I got. I can normaly tell how the book will end afer the first 50 pages but this one kept me guessing right up to the end. As an after thought if you like the show "survivors" I read somewhere that this is where they got the idea.

The Scarlett Letter is a wonderfully written novel, that encompasses the Puritan life in the early settlement of New England. The main characters in the book are Hester Prynne, Rev. Dimmsdale, Pearl, and the haughty physician Roger. The scandal in the novel is adultery. A sin that takes a hold of all the characters in one way or another. Love and truth are the few things the characters can trust. Isolation is also a great part of the novel and with each turning of a page Hester's strength empowers the reader to hold that tear let the heart remain strong...for ourselves and for Hester.

I am a junior in college. I had to read this book once before for a lit. class my junior year in high school. I admit it was a bit difficult to read the first time, but I understood and enjoyed it this time. I recommend looking into what was going on during the Romantic Period and gaining an understanding of what Romantic writers focused on. It will help you understand the story line. And if you get a chance, check out some other works by Hawthorne, like The Birthmark or Young Goodman Brown. That will help you understand Hawthorne's style of writing.

This rich, beautiful tale of forbidden love is possibly the best book I have ever read. It is filled with rich detail and fascinating symbolism. It left me in tears and in awe.

There was an accident here. The review you see at the top of the review column is for a completely different book. There are no photographs in this book. It is a novel with a completely different author and title than the first review sayes it is.

This book is a good example of a kind of writing which became mildly popular during the second half of the 19th century in which a character's discovery that he is part black is a crucial plot element. Other examples of this can be found in Pud'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain and Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin. So, it is a good book for anyone who is interested in race relations. The story takes place in Sao Luis (Brazil's second largest slave trading port) during the 1870s, when slavery still existed. Sao Luis was a very conservative, provencial city in which the Catholic church was openly against abolition, and the main villian in the book is a catholic priest. Apparently Azevedo, who was just 23 when he wrote the book, angered the local upper class so much with this book that he had to move out of town. Although Mulatto is considered to be the first Brazilian novel in the Naturalist or Realist tradition, there are many elements of romanticism in the plot which tends to be melodramatic and sloppy at times. Still, it serves as a fascinating historical document and at times Azevedo's prose is fantastic, forshadowing the greatness that was to come later with his masterpiece, The Slum.

If you do not have to read this book, don't. It is very difficult to understand and catch on to, especially because of the slow plot build-up and the overall slowness of the book. It has a nice meaning to it but hard to understand because of the way the author words things.

I will admit that maybe the first chapter was not the easiest to understand, but it still wasn't slow. I definantly recommend reading this book.

This story is both complex and well written through the use of perspective, but its complexities do not make it a good story. Personally, I feel it is a story that does not even need to be told. The characters are backward and hard to understand. Initially you feel as if all of the facts and details that are included will lead to an interesting end, but it is not an ending at all just a weird closure. Basically it is a story of a bunch of hicks that carry their dead mother around in a coffin and learn of their mental incapasity to deal with it.

Yoknawpatawpha County must have been a sorry place tolive. God's Country? I hope not. Faulkner has some good books, butthis isn't one of them. Somebody hit these people with the stupid stick. In the sequel, Dewey Dell's works in the local cathouse and wonders why she's got ten kids. Cash has more concrete in his head than on his leg. Vardaman is still dumb as dirt. Addie is still dead and stinking up the county. And teachers make you read this stuff?

Graham Swift's Booker prize winning novel is an unashamedly disguised version of Faulkner's brilliant novel. It has some of his finest passages in it including the famous one-line chapter of mothers being a fish