Propeller One-Way Night Coach: A Story
by John Travolta

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Book Review: Book Review by G. Beato
Summary: 2 Stars

This review appeared in Newsday on Sunday, December 14, 1997.
G. Beato is a freelance writer in San Francisco who writes about popular culture.

G. Beato wrote: << Vanity also lies at the heart of "Propeller One Way Night Coach," John Travolta's slim volume about an eight-year-old boy's uneventful first airplane flight. Instead of self-loathing, Travolta's conceit engenders an almost sociopathic unawareness of his own mediocrity. Everything about this book insists on its charm - its faux-nave illustrations, its blue type, its genesis as a Christmas gift from Travolta to 75 family members and friends. But despite the warm, fuzzy marketing sentiment, the book is a charm vacuum, a what-I-did-on-my-vacation bore de force in which clumsy syntax battles, bland description, and only the plane's forward progress and the reader's determination to keep turning pages provide the narrative momentum.
Travolta calls his story a "fable for all ages." Although it doesn't really live up to this denomination - there's no explicit lesson in evidence - it is fairly instructive on a subtextual level. The moral here: If you are very, very famous, the fortunate recipient of constant, often baseless adulation, you will likely lose all perspective on the relative merits of your work. >>

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