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    Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

    Written by Geoff Dyer

    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley

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    About this audiobook

    From a writer "whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar of our era" (NPR), a new book that confirms his power to astound readers.

    As a child Geoff Dyer spent long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard an aircraft carrier. Another Great Day at Sea chronicles Dyer's experiences on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the routines and protocols of "carrier-world," from the elaborate choreography of the flight deck through miles of walkways and hatches to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the deafening complexity of catapult and arresting gear. Meeting the Captain, the F-18 pilots and the dentists, experiencing everything from a man-overboard alert to the Steel Beach Party, Dyer guides us through the most AIE (acronym intensive environment) imaginable.

    A lanky Englishman (could he really be both the tallest and the oldest person on the ship?) in a deeply American world, with its constant exhortations to improve, to do better, Dyer brilliantly records the daily life on board the ship, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity, dedication and optimism, become forms of self-expression. In the process it becomes clear why Geoff Dyer has been widely praised as one of the most original-and funniest-voices in literature.

    Another Great Day at Sea is the definitive work of an author whose books defy definition.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9780553397635
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    Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush
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    Geoff Dyer

    Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including The Last Days of Roger Federer, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Zona, See/Saw, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is a writer in residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.

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    Reviews for Another Great Day at Sea

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    • 2/5
      I did not enjoy this book at all. The author was on one of the most deadly war machines on Earth and he talked about the food and having a room to himself. Two thumbs down.
    • 2/5
      Almost a complete bore. As much as I generally enjoy the nonfiction writing of Geoff Dyer, I found this book to fail miserably in entertaining or enlightening me. Of course, I am adverse to almost anything Bush-like or having to do with military might. Indeed, I am grateful to all the men and women who serve our country, but I abhor the constant attention given to our always-threatening war-like nature, our loud machines, regimented behavior, and the sentimentality that permeates almost everything I used to love.
    • 5/5
      Lovely blend of journalism and Dyer trying to overcome his own failings as a journalist. Wry and entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Dyer writes of his experience on the carrier with a mix of awe, a child-like worshipfulness, elitism, and sardonicism. A fan of flight and model airplanes since his childhood, here he is in his fifties, finally invited on a huge aircraft carrier, where he insists he has to have a cabin to himself only to discover it’s located virtually under the flight deck where the pounding of planes landing threatens to deprive him of all sleep. And then he complains about the food. He constantly refers to the photographer who accompanied him as “the snapper,” but we get no sense at all of who the “snapper” is, nor his feelings about the adventure.There’s not much to do “after work” on an aircraft carrier, at least in Dyer’s very limited perspective. Days are long, fourteen hours is the usual, and the balance of awake time is often spent studying. Alcohol and personal affection are prohibited, so, he would have us believe, one is left with little to do but indulge in dominos. “The reality is that a carrier is as crowded as a Bombay slum, with an aircraft factory—the hangar bay—in the middle. The hangar bay is the largest internal space on the boat. It’s absolutely enormous—and barely big enough for everything going on there.”The title, “Another Great Day at Sea,” is from the Captain’s daily exhortation to the crew. It was a constantly repeated refrain, although Dyer wonders what the Captain might have intoned had they been in the middle of a North Atlantic storm. Unable, not permitted, to go anywhere on the ship on his own, ostensibly for his own safety’s sake, one wonders just how accurate a view Dyer got of this modern marvel with the capacity to rain down death and destruction almost anywhere on the planet. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised by the religiosity displayed by the officers who all enjoyed the certitude that comes from hyper-religious belief and super-patriotism. Probably a prerequisite for the job. But at the same time, Dyer is a very good listener and he extracts some revealing personal stories from his interviews with crew members. Of course, these must never be taken as generalizations given that the George Bush carries more than 5,000 men, that’s twice the size of my closest town. Still, I very much enjoyed the book since I’m just as besotted by technology as is Dyer.