shmoop.com - An excellent website for dissecting literature, etc.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

I discovered the following website while looking around the Net:
http://www.shmoop.com/literature/

I've never seen such a clear way of dissecting literature. Give it a look. Its uniform presentation makes things so easy to grasp. The spatial arrangement of the different aspects also seems to help me digest the information.

What do you think?

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Below is a link to the "about" page:
http://www.shmoop.com/public/about_us...

[Jim]

I'll try to check this out tomorrow. The page isn't loading over a modem.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Hope you'll be able to access it, Jim. I'd like your opinion.

[Jim]

I read over their review of 1984 & a couple of others. I wasn't particularly impressed with 'Why should I care' section. A lot of it was too tongue-in-cheek &/or strayed. The 'In a nutshell' was REALLY brief, but accurate. It didn't go far enough. I'd say it's OK as a secondary source. I wouldn't use just it, though. Thanks for turning me on to it, though.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Jim, check this website out!
http://www.antistudy.com/search.php?t...

Take your choice of eleven different websites which are literature study guides similar to Cliffs!

Which is best? (g)

[Jim]

Wow. That's an excellent list of sites. I've been on maybe half of them before or heard of them. Thanks.

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Jim, I'm getting information-overload! :)

[Jim]

It's really easy to spend hours at a time surfing, isn't it? Wikipedia is my big downfall. While you need to keep in mind that any idiot can add to it or edit it (I'm one & so is one of my boys) there is so much good information there & links to other articles. I can start reading about philosophy & wind up getting the low down on an SF movie or reading an engineering text on MIT's site an hour later. It's like peanuts!

[Joy H., Group Founder]

Jim wrote: "It's like peanuts!"

How well I know!