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Dear Air 2000 (2000)

by Terry Ravenscroft(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: If you like British-type humor, you’ll love DEAR AIR 2000 by Terry Ravenscroft. If you don’t like it, read it anyway: I’m sure you’ll find something that will make you laugh. The book is a record of correspondence between T. Ravenscroft to airlines world wide. I was disappointed that he didn’t include El-Al, Israel’s airline. There is only one US airline involved. Mr. Ravenscroft begins the exchange by asking for information about a flight he is planning (or complaining about one that he took). Topics include the food, seating, places to see, schedules, stewardess uniforms, laws in some of the countries, and the behavior of other passengers. Most are outlandish. Much of the humor comes from the responses from the airlines, as they attempt to deal with ... morean obvious crackpot. Ravenscroft milks the exchanges as much as he can, pointing out when they have not answered his questions. Some companies, wisely, I think, do not respond, but, surprisingly enough, most do in a very polite, professional manner. The book is worth the couple of hours needed to read it.
review 2: I took advantage of a free Kindle promo to download this so I suppose I shouldn't complain too much, and in fact I did genuinely laugh out loud at a couple of the scenarios. Unfortunately, Mr Ravenscroft takes a 5 minute funny idea and tries to turn it into an entire book, the result being that there are a lot of exchanges between himself and various airlines that are simply not funny. If this was woven around a series of characters in a sitcom it may work better, but as a simple chronological exchange of letters it falls a bit flat. less

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