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Summary: Oh, How Self-Centered He's Become!!
Review: OK Jimmy. We get it now. You're the fabulous Jimmy Buffett and we're not. Enough already. This book is not so much autobiographical as it is bragging. "Don't you wish you could live your life like me", Buffett seems to say. Enough with the "he who dies with the most toys, wins" credo and stick to your music. Better yet, sell all your "toys" instead of "selling out" and get back to the basics. Your music has suffered for years because of the swelled head. As in his music, Buffett has peaked early in his attempt at writing. Stick to telling short stories like "Tales to Margaritaville". We already know how stinking rich you are; your legions of Parrotheads made you the success you are today. No need to brag and rub our noses in it.
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Summary: a look at the good life
Review: As a Jimmy Buffett fan who happens to be part of the Y Generation, which I think we're called, I enjoyed this book as i enjoy Jimmy's songs. After years of Nirvana and Beastie Boys, Jimmy's outlook on life is a refreshing viewpoint from someone who knows how to enjoy the little things. This is reflected in his writting style. Where as some might find his indepth description of his favorite knap sacks as over-indulgent, i think that is exactly what people are attracted to in his songwritting, a different look at normal, everyday things that most people take for granted. It shouldn't go without mentioning that Jimmy probably has one of the most enjoyable lifestyles that any beachbum or kid-at-heart is dreaming of. Where Jimmy takes us on a crazy journey with the fictional side of his life in "Where Is Joe Merchant?", "A Pirate Looks At Fifty" is a good look into Buffett's real life. If you dream of taking the vacation of a lifetime, but can't afford the accessories, let alone the plane, this is the book to live them through.
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Summary: Well It is essentially a man's book
Review: Jimmy Buffett thinks a lot of himself and he is not afraid if we know it. I bought the book because i am entertained by his music and have day dreams of traveling around the Caribbean.Fly fishing is not my thing it's my husband's. Nor am I interested in the fine points of flying. As an early childhood educator, I was somewhat surprised that he would meet some strangers on an island and decide they were okay to babysit for him. Not entirely smart for a well known american abroad but it's only my opinion. Throughout I found it mildly entertaining in a peter pan sort of way.
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Summary: just a fun read
Review: sometimes bogs down if you're not an airplane nut, but a lot of fun to read when you skip those parts.
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Summary: Jimmy has done better
Review: It's worrisome when an author admits outright that he's attempting to hash out a book to fulfill a contract. Unfortunately, this weak volume about Jimmy Buffett's family trip around the Caribbean basin never surpasses that low bar of expectations. Besides its meandering, weighted-down narrative, this book suffers from a little too much reality. Despite the fact that I know how insanely rich Buffett is, I like to imagine him as a beach bum troubadour like he once must have been. It is difficult, then, to adjust to such a flaunting of wealth as takes place within the pages of the self-indulgent <A Pirate Looks at Fifty>. Buffett mutilates his own marketed image and the genuine adventure of his Caribbean tour by staying in (and referring to, for heaven's sake!) the Hiltons and Hyatts of the tropics. Add to this an overabundant use of Buffettisms (esp. references to geographical places in terms of latitudes, i.e., "lower latitudes," "other latitudes," etc., etc.) and it's just all too nauseating and cheap. The only redeeming parts of this travelogue are Jimmy's recollections of the old days, genuine smile-producing anecdotes of his formative years or stories of an aspiring recording artist. Jimmy Buffett would be better off sticking to short-format writing; songs and short stories definitely appear to be his forte.
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Summary: Philosophical
Review: 1st, I am in no way a Parrothead nor do I have any music by Jimmy Buffett. I know who he is and heard his tunes on the radio. I checked this book out of the library based on the cover~(Buffett sitting on a beach with a laptop and a seaplane parked in a nearby inlet.)Well I must ay that I really enjoyed his outlook on life and also the vicarious vacation the book takes the reader. If I could, I would like a game of dominoes with this guy, Willie Nelson and David Lee Roth
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Summary: An essential guide to life - buy this book
Review: If you're a Jimmy Buffett fan, and you haven't yet read this book, shame on you. To anyone else who has stumbled across this review, I beg you to read this book as soon as possible. Disregard everything you think you know about Jimmy Buffett. This book contains everything you need to know about enjoying life. You have to respect a guy who has figured out a way to spend half the year flying his seaplane and entertaining his kids! After reading this book you will rightfully want to purchase every recording Jimmy has ever made. Love to all fellow parrotheads.
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Summary: Live a Lucky Life
Review: The quintessential Jimmy. The guy we all want to grow up to be like. The guy with the greatest job in the world. A wonderfully delightful tale of a dream vacation of a family man who loves his kids. A singer, a sailor, a pilot, a storyteller and dream maker. The book is as good as his music and holds your attention from start to finish. A Parrothead essential.
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Summary: A Semi-true Story
Review: Ok, Jimmy Buffett is a little self absorbed and the book bogs down from time to time, and it could have been better edited. Having said that I now have to say I liked the book. Buffett demonstrates that not only is he highly capable of enjoying his life and adventures, but he is gifted at bringing along the rest of us through his words and imagination. As someone of Buffett's generation who shares his thirst for adventure, I found myself not so much sitting and reading, but flying a seaplane and exploring new lands. Buffett's style of travel, with all his paraphernalia and excesses, certainly makes one wonder if the pirate has gentrified at fifty, yet, in his own way he is still out there experiencing life and doing a credible job of communicating it. A Pirate Looks at Fifty is a good read. I recommend it to anyone who finds pleasure in stepping out of the ordinary.
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Summary: Love the book. Easy reading
Review: What a great book. Fast reading and taking a tour of central america while learing about the biggest beach bums life. Imagine doing what you love for a living and getting paid handsomely too. A must for the Buffet fan and anyone contenplating self help books.
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