Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law, and though he has often remarked he doesn’t much like boats, he solemnly swears to shake things up. It felt like a middle aged non writers attempt at making a statement, a first time writers workshop try at satire. A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this entertainment tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster. The Captain and the Glory is completely absurd and true. Please try again. Reviewed in Australia on February 28, 2020. Which is to say, don't approach it with the same degree of expectation as his more serious works, in particular, his ongoing series of telling a larger story through a more focussed lens.

But truly no metaphor quite captures the sense of peril, nausea, uncertainty, and constant upheaval we feel on angry seas while under bad command. “Hysterical”, some of them said. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Had no idea what this was about. However they were all the catalyst I needed to order this book immediately. It is as funny as it is scarily reflective of our times and current president. He had to say something, and this is it.

Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. I believe it’s intent is to put the gross character of a bullying, self serving leader forward in an even more egregious caricature. s Dave Eggers’s novella begins, the citizens of the great ship Glory are electing a new captain. The broad comedy also becomes jarring as the mass murders of foreigners and dissidents escalate, culminating in a dinner thrown by a Kim Jong-un figure that features a hollowed-out corpse turned into a trough for guacamole. It was indeed an entertainment.

Absurd, hilarious, and all too recognizable, The Captain and the Glory is a wicked farce of contemporary America. A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this entertainment tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster.. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. It is as funny as it is scarily reflective of our times and current president. Eggers has given us an essential American satire, a depiction of this administration that doesn’t simply deny it as an abomination—which it is—but carries us through an illustration of a parallel imaginary world that delights and defames and is just so good and funny.”—Tommy OrangeIf the normal daily diet of news makes you think that Lord Byron was right — that you should laugh so you do not weep — then let Dave Eggers help you do just that.—George F. Will, Q & A with Eggers about The Captain and the Glory. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. He also initiates a campaign of persecution aimed at Certain People – refugees, once magnanimously welcomed aboard, now terrorised, arrested and summarily drowned. A s Dave Eggers’s novella begins, the citizens of the great ship Glory are electing a new captain.

Please try again. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. I was reminded how I’ve felt someone so brute and crude could be put forward for high office, that his separation of desperate families and their incarceration in camps and that his efforts to assert an omnipotent sovereignty for himself have left me feeling enraged and insulted. There are other prominent authors who have thrust out books on the subject, so much so that there's practically an entire shelf of them (i.e., Rushdie, McEwan, Coe, Lethem). To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. A Robert Mueller–esque “Sheriff of the Seas” proves an ineffectual counterweight; in time, the shallow, gullible captain falls under the sway of a Putin-ish “Pale One." The troubled captaincy of the Glory tells an all to familiar story... this is a genuinely hilarious tale, a little read with some big ideas. It’s a little hard to believe that anyone could write a satirical story about Donald Trump, whose behavior is so far over the top that he would seem immune to satire. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The Captain and the Glory is a satirical novel about Donald Trump. Disappointing and a waste of money. When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. I smiled a lot and smiling is a good thing. Instead of choosing an experienced crew member, they pick “the man with the yellow feather in his hair”, a notorious swindler whose previous job was selling cheap souvenirs at the putt-putt golf course and who is best known for blurting out anything that comes into his head. Yet that’s exactly what San Francisco literary phenomenon Dave Eggers has done in The Captain and the Glory. AN ENTERTAINMENT. The Republican party doesn’t exist in the world of the novella, and the Captain’s policies have no history; before his elevation, there was no racism on the Glory at all. They talked about the reason why he wrote the book and it peaked our interests.

The Captain and the Glory (Knopf) is a quick Dave Eggers, a slim stopgap of a novel between The Parade (which we reviewed here) and whatever’s up next. Traurig aber wahr! ‘An Entertainment’ indeed; a reminder to resist as well, Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020, This was an easy but not light read. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in.

I reaffirm, I will resist.A, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 21, 2020. If you belong to the Trump cult, do not buy this book. For anyone who has followed the trump presidency this book is an absolute must.

By Dave Eggers. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. The Trump presidency has been exhaustively assailed by satirists, and it’s not Eggers’s fault if this parable feels overfamiliar. It is possible this is meant to subtly mock people who believe impeaching Trump is all that’s needed to Make America Great Again, but the few who still harbour this belief will finish the book reassured that Eggers agrees. Something went wrong. Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2020. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I’m talking about boat life. Instead of choosing an experienced crew member, they pick “the man with the yellow feather in his hair”, a notorious swindler whose previous job was selling cheap souvenirs at the putt-putt golf course and who is best known for blurting out anything that comes into his head. A voter explains: “We need someone … to shake things up.” Soon the Captain has thrown out the rule book, plus all the other books, and is treating citizens to constant updates on the greatness of his penis. A few cultists have used this review format to write political diatribes that no one cares about. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills his passengers, writing his dreams and notions on the cafeteria wipe-away board, boasting of his exemplary anatomy, devouring cheeseburgers, and tossing overboard anyone who displeases him. An appalling portrayal emerges and the reflection gives a chance for the repulsive feelings brought forward to be given an insightful review.

But also a couple gems, so I keep coming back. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed.

This book gets it exactly right — the tone, the form, the kind of naive narrative that implies that all this is perfectly normal. Zuerst lacht man nur. Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2019. The Captain and the Glory is a satirical novel about Donald Trump. In general, it is successful as a gift book, whose better jokes can be read aloud to approving chuckles after Christmas dinner. Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2020. Not funny now as we watch a silent, ignorant, mob slowly building momentum. I’m a never a Trumper and looked forward to lots of laughs as promised by many reviewers. Until one day a famous pirate, long feared by passengers of the Glory but revered by the Captain for how phenomenally masculine he looked without a shirt while riding a horse, appears on the horizon . The novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster. I laughed out loud so frequently I was amazed, because I’m not that easy to make laugh out loud.

The Captain and the Glory is completely absurd and true. Umso mehr, wenn einem klar wird: ja, so ist es tatsächlich. English | 2019 | Contemporary Fiction . Free UK p&p over £15. Dann packt einen das Grauen. Here he unleashes his feelings about the current atrocity in the White House, and he doesn't mean for it to be anything but a satire or, as he puts it, an Entertainment about a dangerous, destructive situation. Nothing else.”—John Hodgman “There is a peculiar kind of cathartic feeling that comes from desperate, worried laughter. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. A thinly disguised satire aiming at Mr President I presume. . This kept happening to me while reading this book. One giant metaphor for the twat in the White House is an unnecessary addition to my daily diet of relentless propaganda and tears already provided by the news media in spades. (The captain “liked particularly the way he murdered his enemies, or ordered the murder of his enemies.”) Soon, the Glory is pillaged for all it’s worth. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. As a significant satire of the political crisis in America, it falls woefully short. I'll read anything Eggers writes, and he does classify this one as "an entertainment." A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2019. The humor is so obvious and so predictable that I can’t possibly recommend this book. The worry is that you stop trying to describe it. “Utterly hysterical. Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2019.

Download a sample on Kindle,you won’t be disappointed.Very funny,and scarily true. Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2019. The endless digs at Mr P were funny and a great relief early on as we dealt with the trauma of the 2016 election debacle. ", DAVE EGGERS is the author of twelve books, including.

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