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Bubbleheads
Join the high-spirited, often crazy antics of the crew on a fast-attack submarine, as they overcome the challenges of a five month Mediterranean deployment.
259 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 15, 2017
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February 26, 2020
I purchased ‘Bubbleheads: The Med Run’ by Stephen Brock, after coming across the author’s profile on Instagram. Curious to see how he would handle the many subjects that he couldn’t write about during his time with the navy aboard the Sturgeon class fast attack submarine USS Lapon, SSN-661, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but was happily surprised. Brock takes us into the lives of those brave souls who purposely go aboard a vessel, knowing it will sink, introducing us to his fictional mates and the usually hilarious hi-jinks one would expect, or not, of men crammed into a little tube hundreds of feet below the ocean’s surface.
‘Bubbleheads: The Med Run’ does not delve much into the operations of US Navy nuclear powered submarines during the Cold War, and that adds to the book’s authenticity. What can be told, is told; what can’t, isn’t, leaving us with the crew and their lives. Although fictional, the submariners I’ve spoken with seem to fit quite nicely into Lapon’s crew. Brock has given us a well-written comedy/tragedy of day to day life aboard a nuclear attack submarine as she and her crew sail around the Mediterranean Ocean defending democracy. If you have even a passing interest in submarines, you WILL want to read this book.
‘Bubbleheads: The Med Run’ does not delve much into the operations of US Navy nuclear powered submarines during the Cold War, and that adds to the book’s authenticity. What can be told, is told; what can’t, isn’t, leaving us with the crew and their lives. Although fictional, the submariners I’ve spoken with seem to fit quite nicely into Lapon’s crew. Brock has given us a well-written comedy/tragedy of day to day life aboard a nuclear attack submarine as she and her crew sail around the Mediterranean Ocean defending democracy. If you have even a passing interest in submarines, you WILL want to read this book.
September 22, 2017
I LOVE the humor in this book. This is a great read.
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April 4, 2019MWSA Review
If you’ve always wondered how 126 sailors manage to live together underwater in a 300-foot metal tube for weeks at a time, you are about to find out. Garrett Daniels is on his first underwater cruise to the Mediterranean, and he has much to discover about life in a submarine. His descriptions of canned food, 90-second showers, triple-stacked bunkbeds, and the fine points of how one “flushes” underwater will make you thank your lucky stars for your everyday conveniences.
If you were a teenager in the late seventies and early eighties, the setting of this novel will make you recall your carefree youth. If Reagan was the first president you remember well, if your favorite television show was “Gilligan’s Island, “and your favorite singer was Hank Williams Jr., you’ll enjoy this trip down memory lane. If you’re older, you’ll be shaking your head at these crazy kids. If you’re a child of the twenty-first century, many of the details will fly right over your head.
If you were in the Navy, you know who the bubbleheads are, and if you were ever a submariner, you probably don’t mind being called a bubblehead. If you were once a bubblehead, however, you will either love or hate this book. For the rest of us landlubbers, the book may offer too much information. Brock shares with his readers all the ugly details—the odors, the rude noises, the cravings, and the hazings that take place aboard ship when men have been under water for too long. Did you know, for instance, that people don't get seasick when a submarine is traveling under water? Once the submarine surfaces, its crews are as susceptible to seasickness as the rest of us, and Brock does not spare the reader from all the disgusting details.
MWSA Review by Carolyn Schriber (March 2019)
MWSA's evaluation found a number of technical problems (misspellings, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization) as well as other problems in one or more of the following evaluation areas: content, style, and/or layout and visual. This normally indicates a need for further editing.
If you’ve always wondered how 126 sailors manage to live together underwater in a 300-foot metal tube for weeks at a time, you are about to find out. Garrett Daniels is on his first underwater cruise to the Mediterranean, and he has much to discover about life in a submarine. His descriptions of canned food, 90-second showers, triple-stacked bunkbeds, and the fine points of how one “flushes” underwater will make you thank your lucky stars for your everyday conveniences.
If you were a teenager in the late seventies and early eighties, the setting of this novel will make you recall your carefree youth. If Reagan was the first president you remember well, if your favorite television show was “Gilligan’s Island, “and your favorite singer was Hank Williams Jr., you’ll enjoy this trip down memory lane. If you’re older, you’ll be shaking your head at these crazy kids. If you’re a child of the twenty-first century, many of the details will fly right over your head.
If you were in the Navy, you know who the bubbleheads are, and if you were ever a submariner, you probably don’t mind being called a bubblehead. If you were once a bubblehead, however, you will either love or hate this book. For the rest of us landlubbers, the book may offer too much information. Brock shares with his readers all the ugly details—the odors, the rude noises, the cravings, and the hazings that take place aboard ship when men have been under water for too long. Did you know, for instance, that people don't get seasick when a submarine is traveling under water? Once the submarine surfaces, its crews are as susceptible to seasickness as the rest of us, and Brock does not spare the reader from all the disgusting details.
MWSA Review by Carolyn Schriber (March 2019)
MWSA's evaluation found a number of technical problems (misspellings, grammar, punctuation, or capitalization) as well as other problems in one or more of the following evaluation areas: content, style, and/or layout and visual. This normally indicates a need for further editing.
October 12, 2019
Read and scored as part of 2019 MWSA awards program.
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