The essays in this book are painful to read. They lack any sort of creativity and imagination. Reading them almost convinced me not to go to business school because it would mean sitting in classes with these unimaginative writers. Curry and Kasbar put together a terrific book for getting in to college but this one falls short. Buy The Princeton Review Guide to MBA programs instead. The sample essays in that book are much better.

This book is good in that it gives you a nice array of examples in the different categories of questions. However, it doesn't review any of them or give guidelines on what worked and what didn't about each particular essay. Some are extremely long which doesn't coincide with 300-500 word maximum that all the schools I applied to have. Basically, a this is a cheap way to go if you need help breaking out of terminal brain-lock when it comes to writing your essays. Otherwise, I'd shop around. There are much better aids out there.

Samples given are not representative of business students today. Desperately needs to be updated with a new edition. Comments from the admissions officers were off color.

Dark Shade is about a girl named Maggie Gilmour and how she fells into a hole that goes back in time when there was Indian tribes.It was summer when this all happen.Maggie was 16, in school she takes American literature program that will prepare her to study veterinary medicine, like her dad. In class with her is Kip, a childhood companion,who is now a silent presence, ever since a fire that left him scarred physically and emotionally. She follows Kip into the forest near their western Pennsylvania home.Kip fell into a hole Maggie thought Kip lost her. Maggie falls into the same hole Kip falls in and she notices that every thing is differant from the place she was before she fell into the hole.It is a dark forest and there is lots of trees. Maggie founds out she has falling into time. She sees indians tribes and Kip. he does not want to leave the tribe, but Maggie does want to leave and go back home.Maggie finds she must save a Scots soldier of the War and find a way to free her friend Kip from the Lenape Indians, so they cound go home. At first Kip wants to stay, but every thing started getting rough, like war between the Indians and the French. They get away and they never forget that day they fall in time.

The combination of its story about time travel to the French and Indian War and the Indian adoption of a white teen is what led me to read "Dark Shade." Overall, I was a little disappointed in the book, mainly because I didn't like how tentative the main character, Maggie, was about her time travelling adventures. I think it would have been a more intriguing story if Maggie had been allowed to more fully explore the 18th century world she stumbled in upon. Instead she only makes hestitant steps into it. Maggie's tentative reaction is probably a realistic one, but, since time travel stories are pure fantasy anyway, her reaction is not a particularly interesting one. Also I thought the sudden appearance of romantic feelings between two characters, who barely interact with each other throughout the book, came across as tacked on and contrived.

However, "Dark Shade" does have one great strength- the author's wonderfully detailed description of the primeval forest that once stretched across Pennsylvannia. Thanks to Ms. Curry's description, the reader can almost see, smell, and feel that dark, ancient, and never-ending forest. Also the author reminds the reader that people in the 18th century weren't so big on bathing so that their aroma must have been rather pungent.

The Great Flood Mystery

This book is about a boy named Gordy, his family, Old Mr. Wegener and his friends. In this pretty exciting book. What they are trying to find out in this book is if there really was a great flood that made a long lost treasure in Jamestown in 1889. So throughout this book they are putting clues together and finding out what might have happened to find out if there really was a long lost treasure. So Gordy his friends, family and Old Mr. Wegener go place to place trying to find out if there was really this long lost treasure. So if you want to find out if they find a long lost treasure or all what happened then read the rest of this great mystery because it will have you reading on and on.

Even though I talked so highly of this book, I really did not like it very much because it was kind of boring at some parts but then at others it was not so bad. That's why I would only give this book a 2 out of 5 stars. But this is also because I really don't like mystery books very much. So if you are into mystery books then I say go for reading this mystery book The Great Flood Mystery by Jane Louise Curry.

The Great Flood Mystery

The Great Flood Mystery was about Gordy and his family when they went to their Aunt Willi's house over the summer because a friend of theirs wants to rent their house for $600 a month and they really need the money. So the Hartz family went to Aunt Willi's for the summer and Gordy brought along his best friend Zizzy. As they wonder around the house looking for secret rooms all they find is a bathroom. Later in the night around midnight Gordy leaves his room because he thinks the secret room must be above the attic. he finally found it. But someone is prowling outside. So gordy hid up in the room but found a map of his neighborhood in 1890. But earlier his aunt told him about a great flood that happened a long time ago and in that flood a bunch a gold was swept away. It just vanished. But Gordy, Zizzy, and Roy will set out to find it and to catch or avoid the burglar. I thought that this book was a good book but they explained the details a little too much and it was kind of confusing. I would give it three stars out of 5. * * *

This is a fairly ridiculous, heavy handed attempt at analyzing the appeal of one of the greatest movie stars ever. This writer sees everything about Mae as "camp" (wait til you read her detailed analysis of La West's appearance on MISTER ED!!) and although she seems pro-West, apparently sees her mainly as someone who gays to copy and idolize, not as a serious pop culture icon for the mainstream public. Super silly and very heavy handed. Beulah, peel me a raspberry!!!

I came to know Aaron Henry when he was elected to serve in the Mississippi House in 1980. Initially I thought he was a doddering relic, yet pleasant enough, who tended to pontificate. He was in over his head and didn't really seem to have much interest in the legislative process and, as a result, was not highly regarded by his peers. He had a long history of arrests in city parks in the middle of the night, if you catch my drift. He made advances toward me and several other individuals--it was pathetic. Aaron Henry is indicative of the rotten core of the civil rights movement and liberal politicians in general--you don't have to look far for this. He ranks up there with Al Lowenstein and Bill Clinton. I believe this book is self serving and out of synch with reality.