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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000ZG1XPA
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 191 g
  • 麻豆区 Rank: #6,861 in Women's Biographies (Books)
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  • Gail
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amusing
    Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2022
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    I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me of how much life has changed since the 60s and enabled me to laugh at the attitudes that are still present in the 2020s.
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  • Clayton P
    4.0 out of 5 stars Lotsa fun
    Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2020
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    This is an entertaining book about stewardesses in the 1960's; this is what flight attendants were called back then. The ghostwriter, Donald Bain, talked to stewardesses and used his own experiences in making up "Trudy Baker" and "Rachel Jones."
    Although there area some serious parts, most of the book is humorous, for example in one chapter Trudy and Rachel get annoyed with a colleague who is always bragging about her sex life, and in another they have trouble dealing with an out-of-control six year old passenger. The illustrations look like the cartoons in the old Playboy and Mayfair magazines, with hourglass-shaped women.
    There is one problem with the book and it is a big one. The narrator is prejudiced, for example describing gay male passengers as perverts who cause trouble, and taking some jabs at Asian people. However Donald Bain in his 2003 introduction acknowledges this and says it shows how far society has come, and the narrator's prejudices would be those that many young white American women at the time would have had.
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  • albert lapointe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on January 9, 2015
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    nice
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  • Fralou
    5.0 out of 5 stars Come Fly With Me
    Reviewed in Canada on March 21, 2011
    I read this book a long time ago, which I believe when it first came out, as when I saw the front cover, I didn't remember it being the same. Having said that, I would recommend this book for a good laugh. I was, like I said younger when I read it and didn't realize it was based on facts, at least I don't remember that part lol. However, I bought the book when I was a teen and took it as a comedy and thoroughly enjoyed the book. I also remember buying Come fly with me, but not sure who wrote that book. I also noticed that this Coffee, tea or me book was not the only book the girls wrote. Anyone ever read any others? Please let me know as I would like to find them all. Thanks.

    I would recommend this book.
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  • 麻豆区 Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars things sure have changed
    Reviewed in Canada on November 1, 2003
    Back in 1967 when this book was firs published it was considered to be prettty racy stuff. My parents owned a copy but I was never allowed to read it. Finally after all these years I saw the new edition and bought it. Things certainly have changed. Rachel and Trudy were lighthearted, funny girls who got into madcap adventures that no sane flight attendent today would dare try.
    Back in the 60s stews had to be single, attractive and thin, today as anyone can tell you flight attendents don't have to be any of these things. Sex seemed to be a game both men and women were playing. Today romance on the job isn't much fun at all. Back then flying was still fun. Today it's more like Dante's Inferno. Rachel & Trudy occasionally dealt with pervert passengers, and often with drunks and rotten kids but the whole phenomenon of air rage was stil unknown.
    Some of the observations Rachel and Trudy made about certain types of male passengers were considered beyond the pale back in '67, today we don't even give it a second thought. Check out their comments on page 237 and you'll see what I mean. One more thing I noticed about this funny book. It couldn't be written today. The whole mind numbing political correctness movement would've made an editor cut out whole chapters. The book will make you smile and it's like a historical artifact to boot.It's a peep into a swinging lost world.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Amusing read...
    Reviewed in Canada on July 17, 2003
    I don't know why I got this book, maybe the title grabbed my attention. I thought it would be interesting to read about life as a stewardess back in the 60's, when it was so glamorous. The book is choc full of anecdotes (sp?) about passengers and captains. I've really enjoyed reading about Trudy and Rachel's escapades, especially the chapter about their "basic training" like stewardess school. I haven't finished the book, but I am about 80% through it. I pick it up every once in awhile and read a chapter here and there. It's not like a novel in that I want to read the entire thing to see what happens. Overall I recommend it with 4 stars, I've gotten quite a lot of enjoyment in reading it and find it to be well worth the money spent.
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  • Richard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2021
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    Good condition, fast delivery - very pleased
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  • リバーサイドひらくち
    2.0 out of 5 stars 时间のムダなので途中で切り上げ
    Reviewed in Japan on July 22, 2013
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    1960年代の航空业界华やかなりし时代のお话というふれこみにひかれて読み始めたが、まったく面白くなくて叁分の一で止めた。どうやら元スチュワーデスから闻いた话をゴーストライターが书いた本らしい。男性であるゴーストライターは男性向きに书いているので（彼女たちに遭遇できるスポットの一覧だとか）、现代女性が読んでも何ら感心することもない、くだらない本。1967年出版のこの駄作を2003年に再版したのがわからない。
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  • Patricia Hahn
    5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite book since high school
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2024
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    When I saw that they had reissued this book, I had to get one right away. I remember reading this in high school and loving it it made me want to be a stewardess.
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  • 麻豆区 Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars things sure have changed
    Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2003
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    Back in 1967 when this book was firs published it was considered to be prettty racy stuff. My parents owned a copy but I was never allowed to read it. Finally after all these years I saw the new edition and bought it. Things certainly have changed. Rachel and Trudy were lighthearted, funny girls who got into madcap adventures that no sane flight attendent today would dare try.
    Back in the 60s stews had to be single, attractive and thin, today as anyone can tell you flight attendents don't have to be any of these things. Sex seemed to be a game both men and women were playing. Today romance on the job isn't much fun at all. Back then flying was still fun. Today it's more like Dante's Inferno. Rachel & Trudy occasionally dealt with pervert passengers, and often with drunks and rotten kids but the whole phenomenon of air rage was stil unknown.
    Some of the observations Rachel and Trudy made about certain types of male passengers were considered beyond the pale back in '67, today we don't even give it a second thought. Check out their comments on page 237 and you'll see what I mean. One more thing I noticed about this funny book. It couldn't be written today. The whole mind numbing political correctness movement would've made an editor cut out whole chapters. The book will make you smile and it's like a historical artifact to boot.It's a peep into a swinging lost world.
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  • CG
    4.0 out of 5 stars This is a stark comparison to the amazing work that the crew of the Asiana 214 crash ...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2015
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    A classic in the subject area - makes you realise how far we've come (though not far enough) as far as sexism in the airline sector. An interesting contrast to the expectations of female cabin crew today: then it really was "trolley dollies" who weren't expected to have their own views (and some of the views expressed about gay passengers make one gasp and stretch one's eyes!). This is a stark comparison to the amazing work that the crew of the Asiana 214 crash at San Francisco in 2013, where the female cabin crew still managed to exacuate the plane in 90 seconds, including cutting trapped members of the crew free.
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