Mr. Brun's tone was that of a confidant if not cocky American, but he also comes across as a very likable, "life of the party" type guy.
By Brian David Bruns. I would have rather read a bit more about interactions with passengers - who makes a good passenger vs. the ones from hell. He uses too many exclamation points!
I listened to the audio version of the book with Gary Furlong narrating. Returning with his award-winning wit and delightfully candid narrative voice, Brian brings us the first and only expose of art auctioneering on the mighty liners, where the tenet of 'what happens at sea, stays at sea' has always been observed-until now. Bruns paints a clear picture of ‘how the sausage is made’.”—San Francisco Chronicle “I couldn’t put it down.”—Chicago Sun-Times “Cruise Confidential is a juicy tell-all. That being said, by regarding it as a fanciful tale full of ego and testosterone, I enjoyed it and laughed myself silly! Where was his editor! Celebrating 14 years in publishing, the series has won many awards for excellence, including three Lowell Thomas Awards for Best Travel Book, and multiple best book awards from the Independent Publishers Association, ForeWord Magazine, and the Benjamin Franklin Awards.Susan is your fun-loving, savvy-traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear, inspiring you to make your Italian dream vacation come true. Cutlery allowances and other nonsensical rules. But the title does detail what the book is about.I finished this book while on my 9th Carnival cruise. Cruise Ship Confidential special feature on ABC's 20/20, featuring Cruise Confidential author Brian David Bruns. Lots of it.Having the distinction of being the only American to complete a full eight-month contract working for the restaurants of Carnival Cruise Lines—as well as possessing a sharp wit and delightfully candid narrative voice—Brian is uniquely qualified to serve as our guide to a world where civilized behavior is thrown out the porthole even before the ship leaves the pier.
Stupid. One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers' Tales)
ISBN: Category: Page: 504. Read : 447 Traveling from Norway to the Philippines, Iceland to South Africa, he places pieces of a sacred Shinto sword in key power spots around the world. Brian David Bruns won a couple of awards for Humor Writing with his book. And he’s spoken with creative masters in other fields, such as director Francis Ford Coppola and comedian Joan Rivers.Eighteen-year-old Franca Viola made history in 1966 as one of the first “#metoo” heroines of modern times, when she refused to go along with a centuries-old forcible marriage custom in Sicily. 2010-09-27; in ; Brian David Bruns ; Cruise Confidential. Very easy to read and a page turner for me. I would have really loved to hear some of the stories behind many of those questions! In His outrageous but true stories introduce us to an eclectic cast of international characters—a rainbow of women workers who could pass for super models, head honchos who take their management inspiration from such exemplary role models as the Mafia, and waiters who are reduced to stealing food from each other’s stations in order to fulfill their guests’ orders. Sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana, meet a traveler who conducts his own detente in Russian baths, and encounter the light of a stranger in Burma.
Quick read (8 hours). He didn't succumb to all their advances by the way, staying true to his girlfriend.
The couple of stories about bad passengers were really interesting, such as the "Roundells" who ordered 6 entrees apiece!Not a very good book. He has been featured on ABC's 20/20 and CBS Inside Edition and was anointed Sir Brian by Prince Michael, Regent of the Principality of Sealand (yes, really). With a grand dose of humor and a good dose of memoir, Ship for Brains is a fine pick, not to be overlooked. My fault for not reading the reviews before purchasing it. Read : 732
EBOOK ONLINE Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties… One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers Tales) READ PDF … I don't even know how to say how bad this book was. After that, the story devolves into a continual drunken sleep deprived near orgy.
In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt - or in this case, the dirty water - on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. The dialogue is awful, the author is fond of both cliches and exclamation points, and his habit of using the word cat instead of God (as in cat bless you, or cat-willing) is just plain annoying. It seems criminal how they can control and work people the way they do, yet every cruise I've been on I have yet to encounter an employee that was disgruntled or unfriendly. With some editing it would have made a nice long magazine article, but the author went on and on and on, for hundreds of pages, without telling us anything new.