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Summary: ...
Review: I admit this book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the job, because too many people still think of it as the glamorous one it used to be. Now I feel that to be a flight attendant and enjoy it, you have to genuinely love flying more than traveling, and look nice more than genuinely be.
Anyone who has never been able to pass the interviews, and been compelled to work in an office instead to make a living, won't however be convinced it's the hardest job on Earth. Enough people fly and see that the longer the flight is, the less stressed the flight attendants are, for there is not much left to do once the meal service is over!
Dragging oneself to the airport through the crowd in the early morning once in a while to do one's flight attendant's job is not exactly like dragging oneself to a dull office every early morning. I was once more convinced, reading this book, that flight attendants who have never done any common job beforehand have no clue what most people's working life really is. They are unsatisfied with their jobs (which after all is a very human feeling), but don't always realize the many advantages they have. But like the author, they wouldn't give up their career for anything! That's the most eloquent part of all.
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Summary: Funny book!
Review: I am a flight attendant and I think this is one of the best books that has been written about our profession. Ms. Foss really describes what the job is like, the positives and negatives. This is a great book for people to read if they are interested in a career as a flight attendant. They may or may not want to do it after they read all about it. I really laughed when she wrote about all the things flight attendants have done, but are too ashamed to tell anyone about. I think I have done every single one of those things too!!! This may be sort of a boring book for people who are not interested in flight attendants lives, but I think all flight attendants should read it! It brings back a lot of memories !!
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Summary: very sarcastic
Review: I didn't enjoy this book at all. I found it very sarcastic and not a bit funny. Maybe you have to be in the business...
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Summary: Kind of Like Bad Dinner Theater ("Jazz Hands, Everyone!")
Review: I was disappointed with this book. I was looking for a light-hearted, humorous expose of the airline industry, or a bitingly satirical narrative about the bizarre happenings in the life of a flight attendant, David Sedaris-style.What I got was a self-indulgant, whiny, thinly-veiled advertisement for the author's self-written "funny" musical play. A book should not be an advertisement for another product, and that is what this book obviously is. The back cover is adorned with a glamour-shots black-and-white headshot of the author looking somehow 15 years younger than her natural age. The caption of the headshot refers to the author as being "star" of the musical she has written. Come on now, is it really necessary that the cover of the book refer to the author as being a "star"? It was excessive and annoying, as well as untrue. The author goes on and on about how she really planned to be an actress, but her life "just didn't turn out" that way. Oddly, however, the author never took any concrete steps to becoming an actress, such as attending college or, indeed, achieving any higher education at all. The author never addresses her choices, but instead acts wackily bemused at the hand "fate" has dealt her. The most irritating parts of the book are where the author breaks into the lyrics of the musical theater piece she has written. One finds oneself cringing at the too cute, precious lyric writing. There are no laugh-out-loud moments in this book, that's for sure. But there are "Jazz hands, Fosse Fosse Fosse!!!" moments galore. As a librarian, I need to feel confident that I am giving my patrons a book, not an advertisement. Alas, this work is nothing more than a puffed-up resume and theater program released in book form. Save your money and buy a ticket to a local production of "Fame" instead.
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Summary: STOP WHINING ALREADY!
Review: If you are thinking of buying this book -- DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! After about the third chapter I found myself thinking "So quit already if your job is so terrible!" There is really nothing in this book that is very interesting or revealing -- just a lot of whining and complaining about all the little parts of her job that aren't all glamour. Give me a break!
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Summary: Very light and enjoyable reading
Review: If your searching for inside tips on travel, inside dirt on specific airlines, your in the wrong book. However if you want to read of a typical flight attendants life, this is the book. While some of you wrote negatively about this book I personally think it was funny and enjoyable. I'm a flight attendant and absolutely love my job, but some of the tales she tells are replays of real incidences I've experienced myself. For those who feel Rene "doesnt" like her job, you obviously didnt read the book to the end. Rene loves her work and like most flight attendants, its a career that gets in your blood (if it wasnt there from the start) and you never want to do anything else. Being a flight attendant is no different from any other career in that it does have its days that offer some very large challenges, but to add humour to these challenges is what Rene did.
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Summary: Hilarious, honest and true
Review: Rene Foss perfectly captures our flight attendant lifestyle and the unique subculture it breeds, rich with irony, nuance and wit. If you've ever considered an airline career, read Rene Foss for the real deal of what life's like at 30,000 feet. Funny, warm and very human. I'd love to see her live one-woman show sometime.
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Summary: Humor With Some Aviation Flavor
Review: Rene Foss wanted to be an actress on Broadway. Instead, in her words, she wound up "picking up trash". She earned her wings and began to fly for WATFI.
Rene has a small chapter about flight attendant training. She then talks about living in NYC with a rent budget of $400.
The book is filled with hilarious songs and observations.
"JFK to O'Hare, Fresno, Fargo, Eau Claire, Memphis, L.A., down to Birmingham... All in a day? Every step of the way. Around the world in a bad mood! Instead of seeing the world and all of its sights, I'm picking up trash and breaking up fights. Hoping to God there's some leftover booze. Around the world in a bad mood."
Keep in mind, this book is NOT about being a flight attendant. This is about her whitty observations. If you want real flight attendant stories, try "Plane Insanity". I did enjoy this book for its aviation flavored humor.
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Summary: Keep your wallet in the closed and upright position
Review: Since I fly fairly regularly, I was immediately drawn to this book's title. "Confessions of a flight attendant?", I thought while flipping through it at an airport bookstore. "Sounds like fun!" But be warned. This book is based on Ms. Foss' stage show of the same name, and while I'm sure that it's hilariously funny theater, it doesn't translate onto the written page well. If you're expecting fascinating tips and revelations about the air travel industry, or any dish on the airlines themselves, you will be disappointed. "Around The World" is a self-indulgent biography/humor book about Ms. Foss' life as a flight attendant. What do we learn from her 17 years of experience? Well, let's see: People are rude, a flight attendant's job isn't glamorous, and air travel isn't much fun. Now, if you knew any of that before reading this book, then you probably won't learn anything new here. Because she's still working as a flight attendant (and probably doesn't want to get sued), Ms. Foss has made the book about a fictional airline called WAFTI (We Apologize For This Inconvenience Airlines). Expecting to hear dirt about United, American, TWA, Continental, etc? Sorry -- never mentioned. Hoping for the insider tips on travelling that only a flight attendant could possibly know about? Look elsewhere. Want to read too-long, pointless chapters about how a girl destined for show business was forced to get a job, move to a new city, and ... *gasp* ... pick up other people's trash? You're in luck, my friend. Think your job's tough? Well, it probably is...maybe you should write a book about it. Ms. Foss did, and I paid [too much] for a whiney, shallow read that felt too much like listening to someone else's painfully awkward therapy session. That said, I did get through it for two reasons, one good and one bad. The good: it's a light breezy read. The bad: I kept hoping that the next chapter would have worthwhile information in it. Needless to say, it didn't. I'd probably see the stage show if I'm ever in New York because, like the book, the idea of it sounds fun. But unless you enjoy mundane, unsurprising observations about life at 30,000 feet, this book (like this pun) never gets off the ground.
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Summary: very funny!
Review: Someone just gave this to me as a gift and I love it! Very funny tips & observations about air travel.
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