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Title: The Truth About Cruise Ships
Subtitle: A Cruise Ship Officer Survives the Work, Adventure, Alcohol, and Sex of Ship Life
Author: Jay Herring
Narrator: Jay Herring
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-18-12
Publisher: SaltLog Press
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 78 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
A finalist in the Global eBook Awards, this is a behind-the-scenes look at cruise ships in a way that's never been done before. Some of the stories are shocking, some are enlightening, but most are just laugh-out-loud entertaining. This tour behind those "Crew Only" doors will reveal:
Jay Herring was an American senior officer and one of the few who had physical access to the entire ship. Interviewed on TV by ABC, radio by NPR, and in print by USA Today, The Huffington Post, and Frommers, he worked with every department and every senior officer, including the captain. His wife worked in the casino, and combined they worked for Carnival Cruise Lines for 10 years and sailed on over 503 cruises.
If you've ever wondered what happens below deck on a cruise ship, then get ready to laugh through an experience unlike any other!
Members Reviews:
Juvenile.
I don't mind that I wasted a credit, if only I could get my time back.
Poorly written, poorly read. More about his conquests than the cruises.
A kiss and tell, where you get the feeling they did not care for his kissing, and I could have done without the telling.
I should have listened to the reviews
What disappointed you about The Truth About Cruise Ships?
This book should have been entitled "The Author's Two Years of Debauchery as a Cruise Ship Employee." While Mr. Herring did paint a very vivid picture of what it is like to work on a cruise ship, he also included a lot of graphic detail about his own sexual escapades (and there are many). By the end of the book, I got his point that cruise ship employees live in a bubble unlike anywhere else in the world and engage in binge drinking and sex to pass the time -- a largely unhealthy environment -- and that Mr. Herring's decision to leave ship life after two years of this lifestyle was the best thing he could do. However, this point could have easily been made without the play-by-play of his sexual encounters.Also, the structure and format of the book was quite odd -- much of each chapter had very little to do with the chapter title itself. It was just a free-flowing narrative of the author's two years at sea.
Perhaps the best sections of this book are when he reads from his own real-time journal of being on a ship during a hurricane and when he explains how "dry dock" works (when ships are taken to a shipyard for overhaul, maintenance, and repair. He does a good job of explaining how cruise ships turn things around in just a scant few hours between the end of one cruise and the beginning of the next.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jay Herring?
A more professional reader. I felt like I was listening to a frat boy read his spring break journal.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment at the book itself. However, I did learn some interesting information about cruise ships in general and what life is like for the employees.
Any additional comments?
If you're interested in learning about being a cruise passenger, this book is probably not for you, as the author states up front. He does provide a lot of general information about ships themselves and a scant bit of info about some of the ports.
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Title: The Truth About Cruise Ships
Subtitle: A Cruise Ship Officer Survives the Work, Adventure, Alcohol, and Sex of Ship Life
Author: Jay Herring
Narrator: Jay Herring
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-18-12
Publisher: SaltLog Press
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 78 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
A finalist in the Global eBook Awards, this is a behind-the-scenes look at cruise ships in a way that's never been done before. Some of the stories are shocking, some are enlightening, but most are just laugh-out-loud entertaining. This tour behind those "Crew Only" doors will reveal:
Jay Herring was an American senior officer and one of the few who had physical access to the entire ship. Interviewed on TV by ABC, radio by NPR, and in print by USA Today, The Huffington Post, and Frommers, he worked with every department and every senior officer, including the captain. His wife worked in the casino, and combined they worked for Carnival Cruise Lines for 10 years and sailed on over 503 cruises.
If you've ever wondered what happens below deck on a cruise ship, then get ready to laugh through an experience unlike any other!
Members Reviews:
Juvenile.
I don't mind that I wasted a credit, if only I could get my time back.
Poorly written, poorly read. More about his conquests than the cruises.
A kiss and tell, where you get the feeling they did not care for his kissing, and I could have done without the telling.
I should have listened to the reviews
What disappointed you about The Truth About Cruise Ships?
This book should have been entitled "The Author's Two Years of Debauchery as a Cruise Ship Employee." While Mr. Herring did paint a very vivid picture of what it is like to work on a cruise ship, he also included a lot of graphic detail about his own sexual escapades (and there are many). By the end of the book, I got his point that cruise ship employees live in a bubble unlike anywhere else in the world and engage in binge drinking and sex to pass the time -- a largely unhealthy environment -- and that Mr. Herring's decision to leave ship life after two years of this lifestyle was the best thing he could do. However, this point could have easily been made without the play-by-play of his sexual encounters.Also, the structure and format of the book was quite odd -- much of each chapter had very little to do with the chapter title itself. It was just a free-flowing narrative of the author's two years at sea.
Perhaps the best sections of this book are when he reads from his own real-time journal of being on a ship during a hurricane and when he explains how "dry dock" works (when ships are taken to a shipyard for overhaul, maintenance, and repair. He does a good job of explaining how cruise ships turn things around in just a scant few hours between the end of one cruise and the beginning of the next.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jay Herring?
A more professional reader. I felt like I was listening to a frat boy read his spring break journal.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment at the book itself. However, I did learn some interesting information about cruise ships in general and what life is like for the employees.
Any additional comments?
If you're interested in learning about being a cruise passenger, this book is probably not for you, as the author states up front. He does provide a lot of general information about ships themselves and a scant bit of info about some of the ports.