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  <title><![CDATA[Permanent Passenger: My Life on a Cruise Ship]]></title>
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  <default_description>Imagine yourself sitting at home. The phone rings. You have been offered a dream job and have 48 hours to fly to Miami and board a 70,000 ton cruise ship. Your destination: the Caribbean. Permanent Passenger: My Life on a Cruise Ship tells the adventure of a young man serving as an Assistant Cruise Director on one of the largest cruise ships in the world, Carnival Cruise Line's M.S. Ecstasy. Witnessing rescues at sea, stowaways, and passionate romances are just some of the day-to-day events revealed in this humorous adventure. Discover one of the wackiest job searches ever undertaken including sending letters to over 2,000 college alumni, chasing cruise line executives into bathrooms, and transforming a dorm room into a private office with hired interns. All aboard - this is one adventure you don't want to miss!</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Micha Berman]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[spammer spammer spammer. I would never in hell read this book because of the fact he blatantly joins groups just to spam. Why Micha would you join the Chicks on Lit group when you aren't a chick? Do you know that groups have threads about how irritating you are??LEARN HOW TO MARKET/ADVERTISE your bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53198022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel strange being the first person to review this book. I found it in a box of donated books and didn't realize it was self published. It was an interesting story and I certainly admired Micha's tenacity as a college student going after his dream job. But I had hoped to learn more about how this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30481576">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Special Guest Reviewer: Denny Griffie, SKI - USCG, Retired<br/><p>Having spent 20 years in the United States Coast Guard and having traveled all over the world while serving on an ice breaker out of the Pacific North West for Uncle Sam, I love ocean sailing. When for our first anniversary ...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68737742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Biggest load of bollocks ever to be published about cruise ships. The author has no talent whatsoever, he isn't engaging he isn't interesting. This is just another uninteresting memoir about an uninteresting person with an uninteresting life.<br/><br/>To top it off he obviously has no skill or tal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68550446">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I work in the industry. The book was interesting, but sadly, dated. The experiences we're from the early 90's, and it is sometimes hard to relate to the world today in the cruise industry. Ships are much larger, cruise lines rules have changed,  etc..]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've only been on one cruise but the shipboard routine caught my interest. So many people and so much happening! <br/><br/>This book gave it all a personal perspective. It was a light, refreshing change of pace for me and I enjoyed it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun, easy read--just took a couple of nights. A good break if you've been reading heavier stuff.]]></body>
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