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Title: Cracking the Gre Literature in English Subject Test (Cracking the Gre: Literature, 3rd Ed) by Douglas McMullen, Doug, Jr McMullen ISBN: 0-375-75617-5 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Forgotten what metonymy is? This book's for you!
Comment: If you're signing up to take the notoriously awful GRE Literature in English test, invest the extra cash (a fraction of test registration costs) and buy this book. It will not only remind you how to distinguish a Shakespearean sonnet from a Petrarchan sonnet, but also outline test-taking strategies, explain the basics of literary theory, and list the surprisingly few works you should study to maximize your score. The author has a sense of humor that will make all of this seem more bearable, even while you're slogging through practice questions. You should also buy ETS's Practicing to take the GRE Literature in English Test and do the practice tests it contains, but if you're only going to buy one book, buy this one. Avoid having to pay those outrageous ETS fees more than once--study this book, and you should get a great score the first time you take the test.
Rating: 5
Summary: insufferable poseurs
Comment: This book describes the way the test "feels" to a tee. The test feels like a cocktail party full of people who haven't actually _read_ any of the books mentioned but have read the Encyclopedia of Literature and know character names, places, titles and authors. I'm a comparative literature major and i blew the test (there's _very_ little of anything but British literature-- it's even skimpy on American literature. The only non-English language literature that you should really know is that Dostoyevsky wrote Crime and Punishment). Anyway, it's really not worth too much effort-- the test is like a serious of inside jokes that you have to pretend to understand. This review guide tells you the basic stuff you need to know to get the ETS' clever little jokes about Milton without ever having opened Paradise Lost. If you're going to review anything other than this guide, I'd suggest reviewing major Shakespearean plays and the more significant of the Canterbury Tales; also for some reason there were 2 questions on Vanity Fair (this is really a major piece of literature?). Get this book, the Norton Anthology, and perhaps an Encyclopedia of Literature (or look over a good time-line online) and you should be perfectly fine.
Rating: 4
Summary: the best you can expect
Comment: The Princeton Review does a great job of addressing how eclectic and difficult this test will be. Students that are used to breezing through exams are prepared to be surprised and challenged by the extent of material this exam covers. (For example, when was the last time you reviewed your Greek and Roman Mythology? Edmund Spenser? Derrida? Yeah.) Everybody has their own complaints about the GRE, but I think this book gives you a plan of study that will help fill in the gaps with the esoteric bits of information that ETS expects all English scholars to know. Princeton Review won't help you all the way, though -- they give you some good ideas but a lot of it is just on your own. Spend quality time with your Norton (Vol 1 and 2 are standard fare). Be aware that Princeton does not cover much after 1900, yet you WILL need to know that stuff for the exam. I love that this book does not talk down to the reader - it presents a refreshing kind of challenge, as opposed to the General GRE (useless, useless, useless...) For a review book, I think its the best you can expect to find.
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