Plane Insanity

Plane Insanity, by Elliott Hester, is basically a memoir of his time spent as a flight attendant. It's a light, quick read, built on anecdotes grouped (roughly) together by theme. It's at times interesting and occasionally shocking. However, after becoming hooked on the tv show Airline, the book seems to lack oomph with the accompanying visuals. There's an unrelenting drive to Hester's book, one story right after another just boomboomboom with no overarching thread (to be fair, it doesn't claim to be anything mroe than anecdotes strung together). I found it a little tiresome. I think instead of reading it straight through as I did, I'd have enjoyed it more in small doses. It could certainly learn from Debra Ginsberg's Waiting, which manages to craft anecdotes in a more sustaining way.