Reddit reviews Civil Procedure, Third Edition (Aspen Student Treatise)

I totally concur with OP, supplements are supplements, not replacements. Read the case book, then read the relevant chapter from the supplement to ensure you got everything you were supposed to get out of it. Once you are getting everything out of the casebook in the first pass, you can discard supplements entirely if you like.

Best supplements, in my opinion:

• Introduction to Civil Procedure by Richard Freer
  
  
• Understanding Contracts by Richard Ferriell
  
  
• Understanding Property by John Sprankling
  
  
• Constitutional Law by Erwin Chemerinsky
  
  
• Understanding Criminal Law by Joshua Dressler
  
  
• E&E for Torts
  
  You can quibble on some, but any law student worth his salt will recognize Dressler on crim and Chemerinsky on con law as the best. Freer on Civ Pro is very well recognized as well. I like the Understanding series for contracts and property because they are still succinct yet more in-depth than the E&E's. I like the E&E for torts because the Understanding book for that class isn't especially good.
  
  If you don't like any of the above, the respective E&E would be my second choice.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Civil-Procedure-Student-Treatise/dp/1454802227/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410148006&sr=1-1&keywords=freer+civil+procedure

No. That one.

Buy this, it will seriously save you.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Procedure-Edition-Student-Treatise/dp/1454802227/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410131881&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+freer+civil+procedure

Civ Pro was tough for me too. Until I got this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Civil-Procedure-Student-Treatise/dp/1454802227/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1416257289&sr=1-1&keywords=freer+civil+procedure&pebp=1416257292246

Also, Freer's BarBri lectures are great