Sparknotes is evil

Spark-note  it or actually read. Most people like to read but do not do it all the time. When we become to lazy or  just don't feel like reading an assignment we turn to Spark-notes. Sure it is a great source to find a summary in last  nights reading assignment so you can get those 5 points in class the next day but it is also a bad thing. Especially if your teacher knows you only read Spark-notes. Spark-notes is a general summary of a chapter and is very vague. It doesn't give you any meaning full attachment to a character or to what is happening. So sure you might get what happens in a chapter right but you won't get what the characters where feeling when this happens and that can cost you those 5 or ten points that you were trying so desperately to get anyway. Another thing Spark-notes leaves out is the pure joy of reading a book. There is no setting when you read the summary so you can not imagine it in your head as well. It also leaves out the great things in a book like the humor and the adventure to a book that lets your mind wander and gets you lost in the book you're reading. Personally I would read the book every time but I too also get lazy or do not feel like reading so I turn to Spark-notes, my grades do show for it the next day though. Spark-notes can be helpful though, especially when you are reading a complicated book like Tale of Two Cities. It can be helpful in the sense that after you read through a part of the book and don't understand it then you can turn to Spark-notes to help you understand it. All together, Spark-notes is not a good thing to constantly turn to and is not in any means a substitute to actually reading a book.