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 enlarge | Author: Melissa Plaut
Publisher: Villard
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
Buy New: $6.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 277423
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0812977394
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.413214092
EAN: 9780812977394
ASIN: 0812977394
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Condition: Villard; 2007; 0.63 x 7.95 x 5.12 Inches; Paperback; New; New. Pasadena's premier independent new and used bookstore. New Arrivals.; 256 Pages
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 Grow UP!!!! November 14, 2007
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
This was a bad book about a woman who can't figure out what to do with her life. So she starts to drive a taxi and complains about everything and everybody under the sun. After that she still has no clue what to do with life. I guess if she got this book published, anything is possible for the rest of us!!!
 As a cab driver October 14, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
For the public the cab driver is just someone who is never there when you want them and blocking the traffic when you don't.
You sit in you cab and you are an observer on life. No one would ever believe what people tell to or say to a cabby.
The book is an admission of defeat but I feel she had a personal victory in her sights. Through it all the high points and the lows she was learning about mankind and humanity. a valuable lesson which she shared with you.I started my own blog after reading hers [...]
I wish her well in her new career, the lessons learned while driving a taxi help her and you dear readers in the future.
Well done! success in your next career.
 Hail that Taxi Book! September 10, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Melissa Plaut's disjointed but riveting style of writing takes you by her side, in the moment, through her life on this job. I feel like I've learned so much about Melissa and about taxi driving in NYC. It's alternately adventuresome, sad, frustrating, anger-inducing and definitely eye-opening. I wish the book were longer and I hope she'll write a follow up. [...].
Okay August 31, 2007
15 out of 20 found this review helpful
This memoir about a female cab driver is good. I enjoyed the down to earth writing by the author but I often felt as though I was searching for the thread of continuity. Melissa would start telling an entertaining story then abruptly end it to go on to another story months later.
I also could never quite get a handle on whether she was actually bragging or complaining about the job she was holding down.
This is actually an entertaining read and I would say buy it. You will learn a few things you did not know - as well as get paranoid about tipping from now on.
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