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bkl001

bkl001

  • member since September 4 2007

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  • Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I have an MBA from a slightly less august school (Iowa State University), and I thought that this was a very interesting read. We used Harvard business cases in our materials and talked about Harvard every now and then, so it was interesting to see what the hype is about.
    Really most of it does seem to be just that: hype. Sure, our professors were not world famous and we didn't have major league CEOs flying in from all over to speak to us, but I found Broughton's description of the MBA experience to be very close to mine, and probably very close to almost every MBA student's.
    This book is also interesting because it's written from the perspective of a non-American, non-business major (undergrad) earning his MBA in the US.
    I would recommend this book for anyone curious about Harvard business school, considering earning their MBA, or, like me, wanting to see why Harvard gets all the attention.”

    bkl001 wrote this review Monday, February 2 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Glasshouse
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Stross does an excellent job looking at present day society from a 3rd person perspective. It makes for a great commentary on who we are, why some people do the things they do, and makes for some good humor (like when the women are trying to figure out what a "husband" is).
    After a while I started to wonder where the science fiction was. Usually people are using futuristic gadgets and futuristic things all the time in a science fiction book. It was in the beginning, then only in the main character's dreams and memories for most of the rest of the book.”

    bkl001 wrote this review Friday, January 25 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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    Millenium

    by Ben Bova
    • Rated 3 stars

    “I think the most interesting part about this book is its 1976 perspective of how things would be in 1999.
    -One of the major characters is - hold on to your hats! - black! And I think it was meant to surprise 1976 readers that a black man would be a colonel and be an important person.
    -When someone suggests that a woman character be left in charge of the moon base, they look at each other like, "Are you sure this thing won't explode with a woman running the place?" Maybe that would have shocked people in 1976.
    -Going on a trip to the space station? Be sure to bring your cigarettes! The author has people smoking in the space station, on the moon, everywhere. Do you really think they would have adjusted air filtration systems to accommodate smokers?
    -A group of VIPs get rooms with color TVs. Color TVs! I would think that even in 1976 someone could see that there would be no such thing as black and white TVs in 20 years' time, but the author makes sure to mention the color TVs. Maybe black and white TVs were so widespread in 1976 that it was important to specify to the readers how high-tech people were going to be.”

    bkl001 wrote this review Monday, December 17 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Cryptonomicon
    • Rated 2 stars

    “The historical and encryption parts were interesting, but I find this book to be a bit tedious. A full page devoted to describing a guy eating Captain Crunch? How does that fit into the story? I agree with the other comments about the editing: chop the length in half and it would improve the book a lot.”

    bkl001 wrote this review Saturday, October 20 2007. ( reply | permalink )

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