Up In The Air
Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but he loves 'Airworld', finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pursuing a noble ultimate goal: one million frequent flier miles. With sharp...
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Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor (he fires people) has kept him airborne for years. He hates his job, but he loves 'Airworld', finding happiness in pressurized cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, and pursuing a noble ultimate goal: one million frequent flier miles. With sharp wit, and wisdom, Up in the Air combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the modern mind. It is a story for unsettled times.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781848543263 (1848543263)
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Literary Fiction,
Business,
Economics,
Contemporary
I must admit, this was one of the rare occasions when I watched the film before reading the book. I needn't have worried because the adaptation is almost unrecognisable from the original. Still, it is an excellent film in its own right though (Clooney and Kendrick: the dream team). I found the novel...
I have to agree with reviewers who have put this on lists with titles like "THE MOVIE WAS BETTER THAN THE BOOK." This is simpler than it should have been, with potentially interesting subplots that vaguely and amorphously evaporate. The protagonist is both annoying and pathetic, a bad combination f...
Didn't like it at all. Found the main character unlikeable, too many business people & company "names" were tossed around so it was hard to keep up with the characters. And other than his name, what he does for a living, that he has sisters 1 who is marrying, and he was involved with a woman named...
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