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  • 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Your guide to Margaritaville!, August 27, 2007
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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!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Should have listened to the bad reviews
I didn't pay much attention to those that wrote this was a thin and uninspiring effort but should have. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Gator girl

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun, quick read
I bought it because I like Buffett and Corcoran and I was not disappointed. A good read and well written.
Published 13 months ago by rjgsphinx

5.0 out of 5 stars Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years
Great little read... lots of interesting factiods about Jimmy Buffett that would be of interest to any & all Parrotheads.
Published 15 months ago by James W. Niven

4.0 out of 5 stars Overall
This book is not much more than a compilation of a few of old photographs of Jimmy Buffett and some of his old haunts. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Coco-Nut

2.0 out of 5 stars Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years
Thy author was trying to cash in Jimmy Buffett's success by assembling a paper back of old photos that he had kept/collected in the early 70's. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Ed Fenner

2.0 out of 5 stars thin but interesting
...like the girl next door as I remember her. This is almost a tourist brochure, would go well with the series "Quit your job and move to Key West". Read more
Published 21 months ago by Lawrence C. Clower

3.0 out of 5 stars Written for Neophytes
OK, all the previous reviews have a lot of truth in them. I, too, was expecting more from Tom Corcoran since he was there throughout the '70s when Buffett began creating his own... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Armadillo Ghent

1.0 out of 5 stars What a ripoff!!
This book is a skimpy, large-margined, stick-it-to-the -public ripoff! At only about 60 pages long, it has very little information and it filled with uninspiring pictures. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Nutcracker

2.0 out of 5 stars Just a Tease
Having been born and raised in Key West, I learned a couple of new and interesting things about Buffett's early forays onto the Key West scene but, like others, was disappointed... Read more
Published on November 27, 2007 by J. Atwell

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Buffett/Key West travel guide
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. Read more
Published on November 1, 2007 by Margaret Saunders

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