Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA

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Summary: A story that over dramatizes b-school.
Review: Robinson clearly had difficulty dealing with the workload of a top b-school. But get over it- and move on. The focus of the book is narrow and did not truly capture the b-school experience.

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Summary: Amusing but whiney
Review: Robinson is such a whiner. Although some of his comments ring true, the Stanford GSB today is not the same place as he describes(if it ever was). The students here are, on the whole, very laid back and cooperate rather than compete. A great example is the rankings of B-schools by BW this year. Just as in the book, Stanford ranked low (8th or 9th). But this time round, nobody cared, no one was depressed, there was no flame session directed at the faculty. That being said, if you add a little salt to his panic, it isn't a total misrepresentation and it reads well enough

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Summary: A funny, fascinating look into Stanford's inner sanctum.
Review: Robinson takes us where many of us would like to go but probably never will. For better or worse this is a poet's eye view of business school and should provide the same semi-serious wake-up call prospectice law students found in Turow's One-L.

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Summary: Wonderful and a pleasure to read
Review: Robinson's skills as a former Reagan speechwriter are apparent in this amusing tale of business at Stanford's GSB. I am looking forward to his future work!

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Summary: B-school students would surely love this book.
Review: Snapshots from Hell accurately captures what most first year MBA students go through. Coming from a top management school myself, I found myself connecting with most of the stories Peter Robinson relates. This is a no-regret purchase.

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Summary: Robinson is a pleasure to read
Review: Snapshots from Hell was a pleasure to read and Robinson's skills as a speechwriter shine through. I look forward to his upcoming work!

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The author was more concerned with describing why Stanford was "not Harvard" than anything else. Thought "Year One" was a little less melodramatic and substantive.

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Summary: Might spark you for an MBA from top B-School
Review: The book gives you an impression that even though the first year of your MBA from a top B-School (in this case Stanford) might seem like a hell - though this might only be the case for so called poets - one has a high probability of doing well after an MBA form one of the top b-schools. Though, author has done a lot of complaining, he later concludes that is MBA was fun, interesting and rewarding.
This book is more like a diary, which also provides some (I said some!) insight into a b-school. Overall, this book is fun and worth a read.
On the lighter side, if you are a so called poet, planing to go for an MBA, take up some Maths and Statistics courses before you actually start your MBA :-)

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Summary: Just okay
Review: The title is the first point of confusion; although the author names the book "Snapshots From Hell," he later calls B-School rewarding and interesting. What I disliked about the book was all the complaining that Robinson did, as if he expected to cakewalk through one of the most prestigious B-Schools in the nation, especially with a liberal arts degree. Also, if you read the preface carefully, the author admits that the characters in the story are fictional, so that took a bit out of the story as well. All in all though, the story wasn't that bad, and was actually quite interesting at times. There are two ways to get a first-hand account of B-school life: you can either spend $80,000 at a business school, or pay for the book and have someone give you their (mostly) honest account.

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Summary: Just okay
Review: The title is the first point of confusion; although the author names the book "Snapshots From Hell," he later calls B-School rewarding and interesting. What I disliked about the book was all the complaining that Robinson did, as if he expected to cakewalk through one of the most prestigious B-Schools in the nation, especially with a liberal arts degree. Also, if you read the preface carefully, the author admits that the characters in the story are fictional, so that took a bit out of the story as well. All in all though, the story wasn't that bad, and was actually quite interesting at times. There are two ways to get a first-hand account of B-school life: you can either spend $80,000 at a business school, or pay for the book and have someone give you their (mostly) honest account.