The Bush budget

[Beltmann]

i have a translation that's annotated and pretty verbose. it's like a teacher's edition. i don't care for the version much as it takes away all the brainpower needed to read by spelling out absolutely everything of any significance. it's like watching CSI: NY.

It's impossible to stop kids from using Cliffs Notes or SparkNotes, or whatever. I just tell them that if they want to use that stuff, they should use it as a supplement to the actual reading. Reading those without actually reading the book is akin to reading a movie review and saying you saw the movie--there's a huge difference in experience, and what's lost in the summarizing process can't be substituted for by any kind of outside analysis, no matter how complete or perceptive.

[bjorn_skurj]

I almost got caught by my English prof once buying Monarch Notes for Madame Bovary at the local bookstore. Has anyone ever done a porn version, possibly entitled Madame Ovary?

[Sir Stewart]

I think it was called "My Hand Shoved In Me"

[tongue-tied]

I almost got caught by my English prof once buying Monarch Notes for Madame Bovary at the local bookstore. Has anyone ever done a porn version, possibly entitled Madame Ovary?

 

I once read a cliffsnotes that was a word for word copy of the notes my english teacher gave just a few days earlier.

 

edit: oh yeah, and the bush administration hates America.

[owl]

That's incredibly sad.

[quarter23cd]

It's impossible to stop kids from using Cliffs Notes or SparkNotes, or whatever. I just tell them that if they want to use that stuff, they should use it as a supplement to the actual reading.

Yeah, but using them as a supplement means that you end up doing more reading!!!1!

 

I'll be the first to admit that, even as a former English major, I once or twice went the Cliff's Notes route when I was particularly backlogged in reading. You're right, it is not the same experience. Then again, it got me through a few jams in terms of classwork--and at least it gave me a good insight into whether the book in question was worth returning to for a full-read once the class was over.

 

I'm guessing most students aren't thinking about that, tho, when they reach for Cliff.

[tugmoose]

When you criticize the president's budget, you embolden our enemies.

 

I know you're reading this, Osama.

 

[LouieB]

The Cliffs/Sparks notes on the budget boils down to one thing...if you are spending billions on an endless and fruitless war, there is little or no money for programs to actually benefit people, such as health, education and welfare.....its just that simple...

 

LouieB