Around the World in a Bad Mood!: Confessions of a Flight Attendant by Rene Foss (2002-03-06) Paperback – 1656

"Around the World" doesn't attempt to change air travel or have great literary impact. It's light entertainment. It helps to laugh when we find ourselves in the bad situations Foss describes so well.From first hand experience, I know the job has its good and bad days, just like any other job. But many of us take pride in our work as safety, customer service and medical professionals. I enjoy making a passenger's journey better, even if it's just a smile and a friendly greeting or a sympathetic ear.Foss does like lists - airline terminology, everything she knows about life, different kinds of flight attendants, passenger types as determined by their trash output. Most of the lists are used effectively.But the dialogue and songs taken from the musical revue of the same name don't read as well on a written page as when performed live on stage.The book is a jaded view from somewhat frustrated with a career. Who doesn't get frustrated some days? But she doesn't claim to represent all of us. And she did make me laugh.

This is so true and so funny.Everyone should buy a copy of this and read it every other month for a good belly laugh.Wish she was coming to our town. I bet her comic act would be great.Chapters are short and not related to each other.Excellent book to read for fun.I am thinking of getting 20 copies and give as gifts all year.

Parts of it are entertaining, but parts of it are kind of whiny. Not the most pleasant read, but still interesting if aviation is your thing.

I loved the whole story from beginning to end. I am not a frequent flier but I've flown enough to know that the passengers can be just that way. I was on a flight one time that if the lady next to the window would have given up her seat she would have been moved to first class because my seat would not return to an upright position so my wife and I were both moved up to first class.

Pretty disappointing. I have heard better story telling from a flight-attendant friend of mine who didn't even have half the stories this woman did. It's not that the stories are bad... just a terribly put-together book, not well written.

From my neighbor friend where I grew up!Not everything a fright attendant is super glamorous!Some really enjoyable insight from a person who has been there! Lots of really good stories that made some sense of all they do (actually I suppose she (the author) may have gained a lot of insight to the who and why something is as it is.Personally, I really appreciated the side related comments of her father's advice and her mom's history of doing the same thing!

Parts of this could have been good, if it had been told in a form that actually made sense. The use of poetry, Shakespearean verse, and excessive alliteration made it just annoying. Plus there was a lot of "poor me" whining. Even at $3.03, (kindle edition) it was overpriced. I feel sorry for those who paid the paperback price.

So accurate for a flight attendant