College 101 : The Book Your College Does Not Want You To Read [Paperback]

Guy Stevens (Author), Frank Halub (Illustrator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0966412206 | ISBN-13: 978-0966412208 | Publication Date: January 1998 | Edition: 1

College 101 is an informal yet informative expose on college life, college survival and all the pratfalls involved.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...No one's told the truth about college. Until now... -- Lauren Beckham Falcone, Boston Herald

Although the author has a definite tongue in cheek style, it's an incredible resource for students -- Collegeview.com

It was about time that someone took a George-Carlinesque swipe at the college industry... -- Horst Dornbusch, author of Prost: The German History of Beer, CEO of Dornbusch Brewing Company --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Guy Stevens has been actively writing for the last ten years. This is his first published work. He is a recovering college student and currently employed as a software engineer.

Product Details

• Paperback: 107 pages
• Publisher: Rcv Sales; 1 edition (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966412206
• ISBN-13: 978-0966412208
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,120,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK but nothing great, April 14, 2005

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This review is from: College 101: The Book Your College Does Not Want You to Read (Paperback)

I was expecting more real advice from a book titled "College 101". The book is funny but it doesn't give any information to a student just starting out in college. All it does is "expose" the dark sides of college, like we don't already know it's a racket. For good or bad though, most people need a college degree to get the job/lifestyle they want so they've got to pay the piper eventually. If he could tell me how to gain admission into and graduate from Harvard for under $40,000 then that would be something!

The funniest thing about this book however is that the author has become that which he seems to hate most. He is someone making a huge amount of money selling books to college students!

17 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ..one of the most *accurate* descriptions of college life., January 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: College 101 : The Book Your College Does Not Want You To Read (Paperback)

College 101 is one of the most *accurate* and humorous descriptions of college life I've ever read. The brochures the colleges send you are full of emptyheaded models, and euphemized portrayals of 'Residence Hall Life'. This book is a *necessity* for prospective college students and their parents.

25 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Demasking the College Industry, August 27, 2001

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Horst D. Dornbusch (Manchester, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: College 101 : The Book Your College Does Not Want You To Read (Paperback)

It was about time that someone took a George-Carlinesque swipe at the college industry—that hallowed institution of higher learning, which, like so many other human institutions, [...]. The author of the review entitled “Seems like the dining hall was serving sour grapes!” got it all wrong! It appears that the only purpose of that review was to absolve and exculpate college bookstore monopolies from Mr. Stevens’ “demoralizing” look at reality. Guy Stevens’ shrewd and savvy observations, served up with wonderfully caustic sarcasm and a clever tongue-in-cheek rebel style, provides us with a refreshing counterbalance to the pious platitudes so many politicians and educators babble nowadays about the nobility of the academic pursuit. The author reveals the true nature—and sometimes horror—of the social underbelly of everyday college-campus life. This is an indispensable book for any college-bound high school senior. Pompous professors, avaricious bookstore owners, callous guidance counselors, and other self-serving inhabitants of our institutions of higher learning beware: This guy Guy is on to your tricks! A great buy for no more than the cost of three cafeteria meals and a bag of sour grapes.