Customer Reviews

Mile High Club: First Class All the Way With the Rich and Famous

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After hearing your radio interviews (I laughed my butt off) and hearing the flight attendants and pilots talking about your book, I just had to get a copy. If you're still out there flying some where I'd love to pat you on the back. The stories and views of catering to the celebrities in flight were right on girl. Anyone with seniority in the airlines will always pick Coach to work to avoid the egos, arrogance, rudeness and tantrums of the rich and famous. Your tongue in cheek outlook will not be picked up by many. Life as a flight attendant, your fellow crewmembers, the behind the scene antics and even the foul language is right on the mark. I'm sure the corporate suits at the airlines are still cringing but rest assured we applaud your guts and honesty. I just re-read your comments on Diana Ross since she just hit the headlines with more of her ATTITUDE. You called that one didn't you?

I bought the book to fill in the hours on a business trip. Well, what a waste of money that turned out to be ! What I thought was going to be a 1 week read, turned into a one nighter. I could not put the book down ! Thank you Diana, for the funniest book I've read in years. And to all the folks that are upset about being in the book, Ya shoulda thought of the consequences while you were commiting the deed !! LIVE WITH IT.

For everyone who has ever entered the door of an airplane this subject and fantasy has come across there mind! Great piece of work from Diana Benson who shows the humorous side and work involved with being a Flight Attendant. I smiled the whole way through the book and have told everyone I know about this fun whispered subject. All the things you have thought about and more. Everyone BUY the book and share the fun!

Diana Benson's "Mile High Club" is trashy, offensive and absolutely IMPOSSIBLE to put down. If you want to know the REAL dirt, and who doesn't, this is a MUST read. Guaranteed something for everyone, from stars to jocks. Don't know how she got away with saying some of this stuff, but I'm sure glad she did.

Decadence and debauchery at 35,000 feet would sum up this book, a rather screwy and hilarious account of the ultimate customers from hell. I can see why a lot of people might be turned off from this, but it's brain candy for anyone who deals with the public -- dishing dirt and naming names. As someone who's worked retail for years, I can say I appreciate much of this book, and the dirt dished is by turns shocking, depressing, and just flat out hilarious.

That said... well, the fact that so many names are named tells me that a lot of what's said here is either fish stories or falls into the "you can't make this up" category -- celebrities behaving badly, celebrities behaving well, and incompetent management. Yes, it's all incredibly low-class, but that's what the author (who was known in those days by the nickname "Dirty Diana" herself, even though she claimed she didn't engage in all of those things... yeah, right...) wants you to think.

Those who have never worked service jobs probably can't appreciate this except as a highly questionable, if extensive, piece of celebrity gossip; therefore, you might decide on a read to agree with those who gave it one star. That's understandable; it's not a book for everyone. Prudes and those with no sense of humor need not apply. As for me, I'd very much like to know who the attendant she referred to as "Body Beautiful" who went on to her own sitcom was...

I had pruchased this book in the vain hope to find out more about MGM Grand Air and the people who flew on it. Instead author provides a series of vinettes (some only a few sentences in length) which given new meaning to the phase, "self centered". It is hard to belive that the author, although she claims otherwise, did not get down and dirty with the rest of them. BIG DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!!!!

Diana Benson's "Mile High Club" contains accounts of her memories of her time as a flight attendant for MGM Grand, an airline catering to the rich and famous. The majority of the book consists of stories of the misdeeds of the flight attendants and their famous clients, and the impression Benson conveys is one of a group of oversexed adolescents. References to flatulence abound as do revelations of adulterous affairs, drug use, and drunken excess. For those to whom this sort of material appeals, there is little in the way of other material to get in the way. However, for those eager to read about who's gay, who's rude to whom, and which basketball players are the most adept or indiscriminate sexually, "Mile High Club" is just the book. Even those readers, though, will find the writing sparse and not especially enlightening. Finally, the author's admissions that she promised not to reveal some of the very things she has printed diminish her credibility and the reader's ability to like her seriously.

It dishes the dirt of the celebs up in the air. She could have added more pictures of the stars she flew with but overall its very easy reading. An avid reader will have the book finished in no time.I am sure some of the stars got their lawyers involved after this was printed.

I totally enjoyed reading Ms. Benson's account of her encounters with the Rich and Famous. I couldn't put her book down. It's amazing how she managed to stay grounded with all the hijinks around her. Now it is easier to understand the flight attendant's complaint of passenger antics.

If art is an indiscretion against oneself, then this book is certainly artful: Ms. Benson admits to things most of us wouldn't tell a twin soul. Spitting in passengers' drinks, expelling fetid gas in their faces, screwing them in toilets in order to score concert tickets - these are the sort of things Ms. Benson not only admits, but celebrates. This is a great book for the Beavis and Butthead set; everyone else, you can buy a whoopee cushion for less and get the same effect.