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| Dear American Airlines: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Jonathan Miles
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 3520
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0547054017
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780547054018
ASIN: 0547054017
Publication Date: June 5, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Entertaining Read September 29, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dear American Airlines: A Novel
This is just way too much fun to get through too quickly. Author Jonathan Miles can now add me to his list of fans!
 What else is new? September 22, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read through this book and just couldn't keep attention. I am in the industry and did not think any of this was funny nor accurate. All it does is badger American Airlines. (and no i dont work for AA). It just seems like a long written out letter that goes nowhere. There was nothing in this book entertaining nor interesting. Nothing about this book flows, and the author goes nowhere with some of his chapters (most) while whining about ALL OF HIS HORRIBLE EXPERIENCES (hint sarcasm).... i have no clue why people are giving it good ratings, read all the bad reviews before buying this book. They are all soo true. Please do me and yourself a favor and dont waste your time or money.....
Great Read September 22, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Finally, a novel which lived up to its hype. This one of the few books that I have read in the past several years that I could not put down. The characters, pacing and interwoven stories were well rendered.
 Thought it was weird - not worth the hype September 20, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The story idea was great tho I kept getting sidetracked by the Polish-friend side story going on, which really seemed pointless to the story at hand. This book would be better read than audiobooked, which is what I did. The narrator's accent flubbed around quite a bit and I got to wishing he'd just have read it in his regular voice or they'd have chosen an actual guy from NOLA to read it! Also the forced use of (a ton of) expletives did not enhance the story - it just seemed, well, forced. There were times I almost gave up... Author's story is compelling, tho, and it speaks to the character's vulnerability. Agree with OP that I expected more after the hype. Thought it would be funnier, have better anecdotes, and/or have Bennie more redeemed for being the miscreant that he is. Ending was anticlimactic to say the least. Overall, an OK book but not a homerun. I would not recommend spending $$ on it.
 Thorns hoping to become the rose September 13, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a plot device the complaint letter looks improbable, but for this "rage against the dying of the coot to your left" the comic tone of Mr. Miles' construction lifts the story's pathos into the lyrical and the sublime - or something like that - and when in the end Bennie makes his flight the beauty of it is remarkable.
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