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Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline

Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties? One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers' Tales)

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Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline

By: Brian David Bruns
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
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National Best Seller

ForeWord Humor Book of the Year

Benjamin Franklin Awards Humor Book of the Year

In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt - or, in this case, the dirty water - on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes listeners down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving listeners gasping with laughter as they're assaulted nonstop with events that range from the absurd to the utterly bizarre. Stewards fighting over food. Cutlery allowances and other nonsensical rules. What the crew calls those onboard (no, it's not passengers). And, of course, the sex. An abundance of ready, willing, and able bodies eager for action on a vessel replete with nooks and crannies leads to love in some mighty strange and seemingly impossible places.

Breezy, entertaining, and informative, Cruise Confidential is essential listening for those planning a cruise or for anyone who just needs a good laugh.

Don't miss the entire Cruise Confidential series:

  • Cruise Confidential
  • Ship for Brains
  • Unsinkable Mister Brown
  • High Seas Drifter

©2008 Brian David Bruns (P)2016 Brian David Bruns
Travel Writing & Commentary Comedy Funny Witty

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I really enjoyed the content and narration of this candid shiplife experience. Very reminiscent of my Carnival days having done contracts on both the Holiday - homeport NOLA and then the Glory. Half expected names I remember to come into the mix!

Accurate evocative account of CCL shiplife.

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Hmm... very torn on this one. It was fun and entertaining and illuminating (especially as I've been on a cruise recently) however there were sections that put me off. Yes, there was a lot of complaining but there was a lot of condescending which I really didn't like. The author (an American) doesn't like it when people stereotype him but then goes ahead and stereotypes other nationalities with impunity.

He doesn't appear to understand that things will be different (and generally better) for him as he holds a US passport - others he works with don't have that benefit. I also found that other characters were generally presented as one-dimensional, based mostly on where they are from: European girls = beautiful, Turkish = corrupt, Jamaican = lazy and so on. It was very tiring and, as someone who has also had a job with people from all over the world, I didn't quite believe some of the characterisations.

Mainly, the author makes himself look great in all scenarios and everyone around him is either lazy, mentally unstable, sex-crazed, an alcoholic, or worse. Those things jolted me out of what actually was a good story! I'm sure that it is based on a true event but, like most legends, it's been embellished along the way to make for a better book (and make the author look good).

The narration was quite good though and liked all the different accents (if a bit stereotyped too but can understand why). However he did mispronounce some words constantly (like Montego Bay, or Carnival) which irritated me.

Ultimately it was a good listen but not sure why on Earth this was chosen as Book of the Year or whatever.

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Informative, funny and enlightening. Excellent nararation. Look forward to the rest of the series being released in audio format.

Informative behind the scenes revelations

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terrible dull story. hours of moaning and whining hours of your life wasted you will never get back.

moaning whining dull don't waste your time

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