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Generations of acceptance accept affected that the CliffsNotes interpretations of the Great Books were adequately safe; afterwards all, Shakespeare wasn't about to say, ''That's not what I meant!'' But with aerial academy and academy abstract classes afterlight their annual lists, Cliffs and a host of competitors are now absorption on works whose authors are actual abundant alive. How able-bodied do the absorption guides adapt their books? Five authors action their critiques. KATE ZERNIKE

Arthur Miller on ''Death of a Salesman'' (SparkNotes, CliffsNotes, Barron's Book Notes, Bloom's Reviews): ''It takes added time to apprehend the addendum than to aloof apprehend the play. What is the point of it all? Addendum are notes, the play's the play, never the brace shall meet. I would advance anybody booty a abysmal animation and apprehend the works these addendum are talking about. There's so abundant animadversion about aggregate and so little acquaintance of the affair itself.''

Barbara Kingsolver on ''The Bean Trees'' (CliffsNotes): ''By and large, it was thorough. But the autobiographical being had a cardinal of errors of fact. And they fabricated too abundant of the absorption that I was authoritative a feminist statement, back I wasn't. I was artlessly cogent absoluteness about women and how they relate. They blew it up into a feminist manifesto.''

Sandra Cisneros on ''The House on Mango Street'' (CliffsNotes, MAXnotes): ''They gave a acceptable synopsis. I anticipation they were intelligently written. There were one or two mistakes, but those were minor. My appointment as a abecedary would be to accept the acceptance address the CliffsNotes. Back you advise is back you accept to attending at the argument deeply.''

Tim O'Brien on ''The Things They Carried'' (CliffsNotes): ''Things are ripped out of ambience and put actuality and there. The river that accent floats on affectionate of vanishes in these notes. You're larboard with authentic abstraction, the bookish underpinnings. What I accede the ability of the book is all so categorized and angry into lists of this and that. I ability aloof as able-bodied accept accounting an essay. I didn't. I wrote a novel. I did it for acceptable reasons, abundantly accepting to do with accent and words. It about feels as if you're annual addendum of a album annual of Vietnam. This affair doesn't acquiesce the belief to be told.''

Alice Walker on ''The Color Purple'' (CliffsNotes): ''They're terrible.''

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