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Summary: Behind the kitchen door
Review: An engaging debut from someone who made her dream a reality. Debra Ginsberg is a waitress. She is also a writer. And by combining the two, she has turned out a winning memoir of life behind the kitchen door. Snippets of her life are woven together as she explores being a waitress, friend, mother and woman. There are some genuinely funny moments where she describes incidents that take place in the kitchens and at restaraunt tables. Ginsberg teaches us many things, not the least of which is to tip well and be ware the waitpersons. They see more than you think. If you eat out, ever, you should read this book.
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Summary: I'm sorry to disagree
Review: ... I found the book quite boring. I was hoping for some funny stories and perhaps some perspective on what we can do to make a servers life a little more pleasant and avoid some of those nasty misunderstandings that can lead to mutual unhappiness on both sides. Instead I found myself suffering through a life story that did not interest me in the slightest. Avoid this book if you were hoping she would just stick to talking about the job.
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Summary: Life is a box of chocolates....
Review: In the face of reality, how many of us actually turned out the way we had hoped for?The way I see this book, it is the writer's self-reflection under the guise of 'memoirs of a waitress'. The writer sometimes found herself deviating from the subject of waiting and instead concentrating on her life-experience, which I find interesting and quite well written. It is difficult to strike a balance and yet keep the two areas well integrated. Her life experience flows according to chronological order throughout the book, but the flow of the waiting part kind of degenerated towards the later chapters. Perhaps it would sell more copies if it is more commercialised, such as the inclusion of more sensational and exaggerated stories. However, I like this book, because it is about life, as is, nothing more and nothing less.
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Summary: Very entertaining
Review: I was quite entertained with Ginsberg's "Waiting". Not especially intrigued, but I was entertained. Personally, I'm a fan of sarcastic and witty writers, and I was relatively pleased with Ginsberg's descriptions of the waiting industry. At times I felt the book was bordering on non-stop complaining, but eventually the good parts of the book make it worth the read.
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Summary: Couln't wait to read this book!!
Review: I read it over the weekend! Why? I just couldn't put it down. Great writer! Was so absorbing that, when the phone rang I was startled back to real life! Debra Ginsbergs' true life store is well worth reading. Very informative on a profession I knew little about; however, I have long ago tipped big thinking that the people who serve deserve! This is an excellent book!
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Summary: wonderful book with lots of laughs!!!!!
Review: This is the first book that I have ever purchased. And one of the best purchases I have ever made. Waiting gave me the insight of a life of a waitress or waiter in a whole different way. I was a very cheap tipper and had no compassion towards thier feelings. Now when I'm out dining I look at the whole restaurant business in a different perspective.
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Summary: Waiting doesn't get it done
Review: Ginsberg writes down to her audience; bad tipper, bad managers, grumpy cooks. Men who grope her, coworkers that cheat her. In her life's journey, detailed sometimes in confession-style honesty (but without the contrition), she wants us to know that the waitress we ignore is an important part of our restaurant experience and should be handled with care. She doesn't get it. In a service industry like food service, we don't want to know the details of our servers bad day, single motherhood, or wacky friends. While Ginsberg tells us continuously of her love of writing, including several unpublished attempts before this memoir, perhaps the best confession she could have offered is an admission that she's just not that good at it. Anyone can write down her work stories, the fun, the funny, and the tragic. Repeating them does not make a writer. If her life's journey was to get material for a good book, waiting didn't get it done.
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Summary: I couldn't have said it any better!
Review: What a fantastic book! I read it in just under 2 days, not able to put it down. Most of the time I was laughing out loud, as I found Ms. Ginsberg's storytelling to be smart and witty, but mostly RIGHT ON! Kudos to Ms. Ginsberg for writing a wonderful memoir, and giving the world a glimpse of what it's really like on the other side of the table.
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Summary: Something of a slow go
Review: Not bad, but overall a slow read.
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Summary: If You've Even Been a Waitress....
Review: ...then you'll totally "get" this book! I love Ms. Ginsberg's upbeat attitude and the fact that she loves her job. She's so right that most people talk about waitresses like they're lower on the job chain than prostitutes when nothing could be further from the truth. As eating out seems to be a national past time, you'd think waitresses would be revered right up there with football heros! Just try to imagine life without them. I like the way she integrated statistics about the job and interwove threads of her life story into it; it was very interesting and enlightening. To those of you who gave bad reviews, this is not a novel, for heaven's sake, it's a memoir and a very well written one at that!
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