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Title: Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet by Elliot Hester, Elliott Hester ISBN: 0-312-31006-4 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (57 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Other Side
Comment: Everyone has their flying horror stories: lost baggage, missed connections, annoying seat companions. Now imagine your life if those incident happened two or three times a day, and you had to deal with the victims of them.
Most of us -- including me, admittedly -- don't usually treat flight attendants with the respect that they deserve, considering the amount of (cough) crud that they have to deal with every day. Reading this will certainly give you a deeper appreciation of a job which seems to be a combination of policeman, janitor, lawyer, and bouncer . . . all while attempting to keep a straight face and gentle disposition.
The stories relater by Hester are all quite hilarious, and uplifting in the sense that, at least only a few of them have happened to you. Hester is a good storyteller, but he goes a bit overboard at times. He will sometimes push a little too hard for humour, and ends up creating absurd simlies and metaphors. Other than that, this is a book certainly worth the time it takes to read.
Rating: 4
Summary: A rollicking ride in the absurdity of life
Comment: Elliott Hester takes us behind the curtain and puts us squarely on the other side of the drink cart to see what it's like to be flight attendant's world. And as he shows so ably, it's quite bizarre. Anyone who has worked in a service industry knows the customer from hell, but it seems that locking customers into a flying tin can will bring out even more strange and striking behavior. What helps balance out Hester's book is that not only are the passengers in for his acid tongue - corporations, pilots and fellow flight attendants all come under the microscope, whether behaving badly or just letting off steam. While he acknowledges that there are some advantages (cheap flights, flexible schedule) there are a lot of downsides to the romantic version of the flight crew. Poking fun at even himself, he never slides over to mean, though some of his stories straddle the line. Rather it's a good read that will make you think twice when you ask for that extra pillow on your next flight.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely hilarious
Comment: This was the best flight attendant book I've read since Cabin Pressure. Most of the stories kept me laughing for days. Mr. Hester is an excellent writer and his way of wording things makes it even funnier. I don't know why people have given this book negative reviews and say it's "mildly amusing." These people need to get a life. Sure, the guy mentioned maybe TWICE that he was straight, but and uses humor about mentioning it those very, very few times that he does.
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Title: Around the World in a Bad Mood! : Confessions of a Flight Attendant by Rene Foss ISBN: 0786890118 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 06 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Coffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses by Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain, Bill Wenzel ISBN: 0142003514 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Cockpit Confessions of an Airline Pilot by Stephen Gary Keshner ISBN: 0967554098 Publisher: Booksonnet.com Pub. Date: 23 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Air Traveler's Survival Guide: The Plane Truth from 35,000 Feet by A. Frank Steward ISBN: 1570231710 Publisher: Impact Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Plane Truth: Shift Happens at 35,000 Feet by A. Frank Steward ISBN: 1570232113 Publisher: Impact Publications Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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