Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years (Paperback)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Ketch and Yawl Press LLC; 1st edition (November 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978894901
• ISBN-13: 978-0978894900
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #411,783 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Total ripoff, August 9, 2007

By	Carter Hall (State of Mind) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, August 5, 2007

By	S. Knoerr (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Your guide to Margaritaville!, August 27, 2007

By	DVD reviewer (Bloomington, IL USA) - See all my reviews

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!