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They Hit “The Street.” Forget what you’ve read, forget what you’ve heard, forget what you’ve been taught. Monkey Business pulls off Wall Street’s suspenders and gives the reader the inside skinny on real life at an investment bank, where the promised land is always one more twenty-hour workday and another lap dance away. “The Street” Hit Back. Fresh out of Wharton and Harvard business schools, John Rolfe and Peter Troob ran willingly into the open arms of investment… More >>
Wow. Such blatant mysogeny is surprising in the 21st century. I was getting annoyed by it, and then the language suddenly turned extremely vulgar and borderline homophobic, too. Unapologetic descriptions of company sponsored visits to strip clubs and sexual harassment are what made me eventually decide it was not worth any more of my time.
Rating: 1 / 5
But I didn’t. What does that say about me? Still, I was highly offended at all the unnecessary vulgarity.
That said, the book was quite readable, and interesting. Still, it was thrown together. Could have been much more informative. Not that great for someone really wanting to know how things work in the investment banking realm.
For the life of me though, I simply cannot imagine how one of those authors could tell the world he did what he did “in public view.” It’s one thing to do something so shameful. It’s another thing to tell everybody about it.
Rating: 2 / 5
Having read at least one hundred books regarding Wall Street issues, I can easily say that this book was one of the worst I have ever read. It is filled with expletives and vulgar experiences. One would think it was written by a high school or college student rather than two adults.
But they are failures. They are the ones who did not make it in investment banking. So they have chosen to express their story in the most awful way they can and try to burn their former employer, DLJ.
Don’t waste your money on this trash. It is more about two children who could not adapt to real life, rather than a story about tough life on Wall Street.
Rating: 1 / 5
In all a very sub standard product by an author whoshould know better
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this book primarily because of its supposedly “candid” view of I banking. What I found it to be was a book written by two ungrateful whiners. Despite the fact that they are travelling by private jet, staying in world class hotels, and earning over 200K a year, they manage to whine that they are over worked and just “cogs” in the machine. Give me a break, im sure that by the time they graduated Bschool they knew what investment banking entailed. I banking is not an emotionally rewarding profession, and most corporate positions are not. I dont know what these guys were expecting.
Rating: 2 / 5