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Summary: I gave up.
Review: After a year and a half I finally gave up reading it. This was the worst written book I have ever read, I couldn't get into the book some of the facts were interesting but give me a break. The best part of the book was Buffetts letter to the author. I am reading Currently reading a "Pirate Looks at Fifty" and I am already as far as I got in this book after reading for three days.
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Summary: He should have listened to Jimmy
Review: As a serious (if that descriptor could possibly apply) Parrothead, I jumped at this title. Wow! More good stuff about a good guy. Wow! What a disappointment. What's truly ironic is that the author is a gold-card member of the Nashville establishment, the music community that Buffett rejected shortly after it rejected him. Which was for the better, I'd add. The author has done deep research, and reported every word of it. He rambles into mostly irrelevant and fairly menaingless anecdotes that do nothing to help us understand the inner Jimmy. This is a demanding book. You almost need a notepad to keep track of the awkward leaps forward and back through history, along with unpredictable changes in narrator, tense and setting. This is not a four-Margarita-in-the-hammock read. I enjoyed some of it, but I understand why Jimmy refused to cooperate. I'll wait for the autobiography he's promised in 36 years.
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Summary: Cheap Imitation
Review: Eng has a lot of facts about the life of Jimmy Buffett but that's about all. Those of us who have been fans of his since the very beginning already knew most of them. Too much rambling speculation about Jimmy's possible ancestors. Eng does not have near the writing talent that Jimmy does so he should not have done this bio. His motivation seems to be celebrity and riches. If you want to read a really good book about the life of Jimmy Buffet up to age 50, "A Pirate Looks at Fifty" is the best book I have read in many years. But what would else would we expect from a master storyteller?
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Summary: Cheap Imitation
Review: I found the book very confusing. The author leaps from past pirate adventures to modern day Jimmy Buffett and back. I have had this book for over a year and have not been able to get past page 50. When Jimmy urges Mr. Eng not to continue the book, I think it was more for the reader's sake and not for his own. Fins Up!
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Summary: Tough Reading
Review: I found the book very confusing. The author leaps from past pirate adventures to modern day Jimmy Buffett and back. I have had this book for over a year and have not been able to get past page 50. When Jimmy urges Mr. Eng not to continue the book, I think it was more for the reader's sake and not for his own. Fins Up!
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Summary: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: i have had this book since it first came out and i havent finished it yet!!go to your local bookstore,find this book,if its still out there.read jimmys letter to the author.close the book and go home knowing you have read the best part!!true parrotheads will find A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50 the true JIMMY BUFFETT bio.
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Summary: Don't buy this book !
Review: The book begins by trying to link Jimmy Buffett with a sailor named Buffett who participated in the Mutiny on the Bounty. It doesn't get much better. Buffett reveals more in songs and interviews than Mr. Eng was able to dig up.
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Summary: Can't Believe I Hate a Buffett Book
Review: This book is downright awful. Let me warn you - stay away. I agree with the other reviews. There are detailed facts about things totally unrelated to Jimmy Buffett or even the point that the author is trying to make. I guess if you took out all of the irrelevant lines, the book would be only 20 pages of nothing new.
*You have been warned*
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Summary: Can't Believe I Hate a Buffett Book
Review: This book is downright awful. Let me warn you - stay away. I agree with the other reviews. There are detailed facts about things totally unrelated to Jimmy Buffett or even the point that the author is trying to make. I guess if you took out all of the irrelevant lines, the book would be only 20 pages of nothing new.
*You have been warned*
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