Review: Some competition for Kitchen Confidential
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 2, 2011
This is a pretty good first draft of a book that, with some further attention and care, could be an emergency health worker's answer to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. As it stands, it's a bit uneven but still pretty funny throughout. It's also authentic. I read portions of the book to Janet, who is an RN, and she kept exclaiming that things really were the way M. Cyra described. And she added some of her own stories about play fights between nurses with hypos (as squirt guns) and hospital lotion.I would suggest to Mr. Cyra that he consider taking the book through some revisions that flesh it out so that it is something more than a series of anecdotes strung together. Greater editorial assistance and control as well as better proofreading would also be very helpful. I don't mean this as a criticism so much as a suggestion to improve upon and complete what is at this point a promising beginning. In addition to checking out Mr. Bourdain's books, I would also suggest to Mr. Cyra that he look to Chelsea Handler's books as models for transforming stand-up comedy into the written word.By the way, Mr. Cyra should consider lowering his price to $.99 until he is better established as an author. I can buy real literary classics in the $3 range, and he doesn't need that kind of comparison at this point.