- ISBN13: 9780312310066
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Make sure your seatbacks and tray tables are in their full upright and locked position for these shocking, bizarre, hilarious, and outrageous stories of airplane travel.
You’re belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It’s ninety-two degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven’t even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Pl… More >>
Plane Insanity: A Flight Attendant’s Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet
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#1 by Kurt on April 16, 2010 - 1:00 am
…nothing i can add to the reviews written–it’s that good!
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Junie Joy on April 16, 2010 - 1:41 am
If you like to laugh, buy this book. Mr. Hester is a super storyteller and just about all of his stories are over the top great. You must buy the book. Junie
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Michael H. Frederick on April 16, 2010 - 3:04 am
I was looking forward to this book but felt somewhat disappointed. Three overall impressions are left with this reader. 1) People can be real pigs. 2) The airlines are … organizations interested solely in profit. 3) Airline employees, especially flight attendants, are only human.
I’m not saying that all of these things can’t be true. I did get a certain holier-than-thou satisfaction from the disgusting tales of bestial passenger behavior. As a frequent flyer I’ve seen my share of high altitude attitude. However, as often as not it’s the surly, condescending flight attendants who spur things on. This is especially true of US carriers. Give me a foreign airline any day. At least if they’re saying rude things about us I don’t know what’s being said!
Certain parts of Hester’s book smack of revenge. Getting back at cheapskate, overbearing pilots (just because they don’t agree on political issues doesn’t mean he has to refer to all of them as gun-toting bubbas), smirking veteran flight attendants (clicking false teeth and layers of make-up?) and strict airline anti-drug use policies isn’t the best motivation for writing a book. After a urinalysis he breathes a sigh of relief. During ten years in the military I never sweated a drug test because I didn’t use drugs! Are we to assume Mr. Hester uses illegal drugs?
Most of my fellow reviewers found “Plane Insanity” hilarious. My reaction, on the contrary, was disgust at the behavior of the flying public. Is this what we’ve come to? Acting like hogs crammed into a tight pen? Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. I also found fault with some of the author’s prose. Bad analogies abound. “Blowing like brush on the Siberian plain.” “The minutes hung in the air like Goodyear blimps.” Sorry, but the descriptions seem forced.
I think the best use of the book would be to place it strategically on your tray table, making sure your flight attendant sees that you understand what they’re going through. Maybe you’ll get an extra packet of peanuts!
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by John R. Linnell on April 16, 2010 - 4:15 am
You can’t say that Elliott Hester hasn’t had an interesting life as a flight attendant and his choosing to share it with us is a real treat. The book is authoritative, funny, ribald and educational. Four out of four ain’t bad.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by D. Y. Johnson on April 16, 2010 - 4:15 am
I thought this book was terribly boring. I didn’t even finish it. It did have some humerous parts and was well written but the stories were either too short with no details or too drawn out with details of passengers that were not funny or interesting.
I expected to hear stories that would have my jaw drop but instead they were stories that I have heard standing in line at the aiport checkin – Nothing I haven’t read in the papers and nothing very interesting.
Rating: 2 / 5