content: I recommend it to high school students seeking to improve vocabulary for the SAT. If you can read this book from cover to cover without looking up a single word in dictionary, you will do quite well on the verbal part of the SAT.By the way, story is pretty good too. Not the Hollywood version of "I have created a monster" thrill-ride but a close examination of how we ambitious humans tend to screw things up and in trying to fix it, we screw it up even more.Monster in the book is very eloquent and I got a big kick out of that.