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Hi,
I was wondering if you guys were reading any good books while studying for the LSAT? I wanted to know if any of you could recommend any? It's make RC easier for me :)
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Hi,
I was wondering if you guys were reading any good books while studying for the LSAT? I wanted to know if any of you could recommend any? It's make RC easier for me :)
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I recommend Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer and A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley. These books helped me better understand how people learn and how memory works.
@igbodoe249 - without giving too much away, does it have a good ending? Cuz if it doesn't, I don't want someone to convince me that I shouldn't go to law school. I hear it all day every day.
@igbodoe249 thank you. I added it to my cart. I might have to wait until after the LSAT for this book as well. After reading the reviews o.O haha but Ive heard my boss mention how college and law school are completely different. In undergrad, as a double major, she never had to study and she managed to get by with a 3.8. Once she started law school, her GPA suffered. She didn't know how to study. Since she was not used to it. She said it's something that nobody knows how to prepare for until you're in law school and you learn along the way, if you don't have a great studying method.
@jwarre26131 that 2nd paragraph actually grabbed my attention. I want to know more! It's over a 1000 pages. That won't be read in a week. & according to the reviews it looks as if I'll have to sit next a notebook to write down all of the words that I'm not sure what exactly they mean in the context they're being used and browsing through an encyclopedia. Which seems like something I'll be reading after the LSAT. Thanks!
http://www.amazon.com/One-Turbulent-Story-Harvard-School/dp/0143119028
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human." -The New York Times
It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel those of first-year law students everywhere. His gripping account of this critical, formative year in the life of a lawyer is as suspenseful, said The New York Times, as "the most absorbing of thrillers."
Told the librarian that i was preparing for the LSAT and needed a novel that would kick my ass, one extremely complex and riddled with referential phrasing. She recommended author Thomas Pynchon. Cracked "Against the Day". I couldnt get out of the 1st chapter without a dictionary and a venn diagram.
Ch. 2 1st par
"As they came in low over the Stockyards, the smell found them, the smell and the uproar of flesh learning its mortality- like the dark conjugate of some daylit fiction they had flown here, as appeared increasingly likely, to help promote. Somewhere down there was the White City promised in the Columbian Exposition brochures, somewhere among the tall smokestacks unceasingly vomiting black grease-smoke, the effluvia of butchery unremitting, into which the buildings of the leagues of city lying downwind retreated, like children into sleep which bringeth not reprieve from the day. In the Stockyards, workers coming off shift, overwhelmingly of the Roman faith, able to detach from earth and blood for a few precious seconds, looked up at the airship in wonder, imagining a detachment of not necessarily helpful angels."
Its pretty killer
@n8turley Mine too! But it looks like a great book!
@igbodoe249 Not yet - it's sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read!
@n8turley have you read The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano?
@mariesutton291 Looks interesting! One of my closest friend in undergrad was Hmong and where I went to school, let's just say, nobody knew what a Hmong was lol. I learned so much about her culture.
@n8turley Thanks I did look at that link. Seems like something I'd enjoy reading. Hopefully my library will have a copy if not I'll just order one.
@n8turley Turley and @morganschumann943 -- Wow! Now I really have to get stuck into 1Q84. You've intrigued me with your posts. More to come...
I remember as a teenager reading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse for the first time, and then the second, and then the third... That book hit me deep as a youngster. Now in my middle years I relate strongly to Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. Going to law school fits with that theme ;-)
I just picked up The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down... good so far!
@mariesutton291 I read 1Q84 last year - when you get through it, let me know what you think of it. @igbodoe249 you should also consider something by Hari Kunzru. His "Gods Without Men" was fantastic: http://goo.gl/DC3jal
Ah, I'm so jealous you haven't read it! I wish I could re-read it as if it was my first time reading it. You'll have a blast! :D
@morganschumann943 I'm a Murakami fan too! "A Wild Sheep Chase" is one of my all-time favorites. I've been saving his three-book 1Q84 till after the LSAT. I'll get on and start it now to help me get over my weird post-LSAT blues!
Just read the reviews online for it. I'll def be requesting it when I go back to the library in 2 weeks.
@harrismegan369 @igbodoe249 Let me know what you think of it when you read it!
Thanks Dillon!
Thanks Nathan!
I'll be looking into both books.
I'd recommend 2666 by Roberto Bolano!
Dillon, I'm totally going to look into that one once I'm done my current one!
My favourite book (fiction) is The Blue Girl by Charles deLint. I know it's not intended for my age group, but I found it in my early years of High School and have been in love with it since. I re-read it at least once per year. :)
I feel that reading books on various topics will be beneficial overall, not just for the LSAT. I tried to get a sci-fiction book and that was just... blah. I couldn't do it. Science related RC passages aren't the best for me so instead I just read articles online on Scientific American. Still not the best approach but it's better than nothing. Reading makes me feel relaxed lol so when I don't feel motivated to study I pull out my books and read.
I've been wondering about this too. Should I be reading more challenging books?
I've recently picked up a few, but I really really want t read books I'm interested in, instead of just reading a bunch of books more for the LSAT... because then it'll just feel like LSAT prep all of the time.
I'm currently reading The Opposite of Loneliness and I read the Tiny Fey book & The Giver last month. Is anyone else doing the same thing?
Thank you :) reading 1 book per week just got exciting LOL