Reviews for The coffee, tea or me girls lay it on the line

The average rating for The coffee, tea or me girls lay it on the line based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-16 00:00:00 Lisa Finkenbiner Devotees of racy kitsch are no doubt familiar with Trudy Baker & Rachel Jones's 1966 bestseller 'Coffee, Tea or Me?', a sexy, pseudo-memoir of two lusty stewardesses letting readers know exactly what it's like to be a glamour girl of the friendly skies. The book, with its Bill Wenzel cartoons, was a huge paperback success prompting the inevitable sequels and spin-offs. Trudy & Rachel followed the original tell-all with 'The Coffee Tea or Me Girls' Round-The-World-Diary' which was more of the same supposedly sexy goings-on in the jet-set age of airline travel. And, of course, those same devotees of racy kitsch should know by now that Trudy & Rachel never existed and their alledegdly true adventures were the creation of author Donald Bain. Which makes this, the third Coffee, Tea or Me Girls book, a strangely surrealistic read since it's an advice novels for girls in The New Morality of 1972. It's also interesting (or depressing or reassuring or predictable) how much and how little has changed since the novel was originally published. Still, there is some shockingly sound and universal advice to be found here amisdt the dated attitudes and the raunchy 'Love, American Style-esque' vignettes used to punctuate their points of view. It's also fun to see how often their advice contradicts itself and how, ultimately, what they're advocating for is more conservative and reactionary than what they're trying to break away from.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-02-05 00:00:00 Mitch Bruce Flight attendants Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones, along with several of their colleagues, lay down some advice for the average male and female. Containing less wit than the original books in the series, this is a book that is more for skimming than reading.