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 Total ripoff August 9, 2007
Carter Hall (State of Mind)
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
I'm a big Buffett and Corcoran fan but this book cannot possibly be contrued as anything else but a blatant attempt by Corcoran to sucker Buffett fans into buying an almost worthless and VERY skimpy book. It's all of 60 pages, minus 10 for the filler pages and you're left with just 50 pages of actual book. Half of the pages are pictures so you end up with a whopping 25 pages, that's right, 10 dollars for 25 pages, each containing only 2 to 3 paragraphs!! Most are simply brief descriptions of places that were in Key West while Buffett lived there and very little of anything else. Want to read a couple of sentences about Jimmy, that's all you get. Want to hear stories about what was a very colorful time in Buffett's life, don't bother, it isn't here. The longest story is about 3 sentences. The biggest surprise though was after I finished reading it I looked at my watch and discovered that it took me under 10 minutes. That's not a book, that's a magazine article. I'm very disappointed that Mr. Corcoran would stoop to ripping off his and Jimmy's fans with something like this.
Disappointed August 6, 2007
S. Knoerr (Michigan)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was expecting to have funny anectdotal stories about Jimmy and his gang as they hung around the keys. While it may have been a fun to reminisce for Mr. Corcoran, it wasn't a very fun read.
For me it seemed like mr. Corcoran was trying to tell funny stories, but was leaving all the fun parts out. It was an easy read, but very boring.
 Great Buffett/Key West travel guide November 1, 2007
Margaret Saunders (Portsmouth, va USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
We bought this book on a trip to Key West. It was fun driving around and seeing (even visiting) some of Buffett's early haunts. Without the book, we wouldn't have seen nearly as many. It's not a great 'story' or biography, but it gets a parrothead around Buffet's Key West.
 Your guide to Margaritaville! August 27, 2007
DVD reviewer (Bloomington, IL USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Tom Corcoran's book could have been called "The Parrothead's Guide to Key West." If you've ever picked out the line "Went down to Fausto's to get some chocolate milk" from Jimmy Buffett's parodic song "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus" and wondered what it meant, this book is for you. "Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years" gives us descriptions of 35 of his old Key West haunts, combined with 39 photos (including front/back covers)--many of them taken by Corcoran himself, who as a Chart Room bartender gave Jimmy his first drink as a welcome to Key West. Later, Corcoran would turn photographer and provide the photos for a number of Jimmy's album covers (check your album photo credits!). Corcoran is such an insider that he casually mentions things that will blow away "parrotheads," who may find themselves wishing Corcoran would write a sequel. Every entry will have you recalling lines from Buffet lyrics!
I had the pleasure of interviewing Buffett in his mid-`80s Key West digs for a little magazine called "Clockwatch Review" and I started the first Hemingway Days Writer's Workshop upstairs at the current Margaritaville. I spent ten summers in Key West working the festival and started to feel like a local, but Corcoran's book told me things about Buffett and Key West that I didn't know . . . and gave me plenty of places to look up the next time I'm in town. Most entries give specific addresses, though Corcoran apparently forgot to include precise locations for the Old Anchor Inn and Logan's Lobster House. No matter. It'll give me something to ask old-timers the next time I squander an afternoon at Captain Tony's, The Green Parrot, or Schooner Wharf!
good guide for parrotheads July 19, 2007
C. Archer (Louisville KY)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wish I had gotten this book before my wife and I went to Key West. It would have made a great guide to visiting some of Jimmy's old haunts. The stories are great. Definitely a Parrothead must have!
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