Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years by Tom Corcoran
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Book Reviews of Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years
Book Review: Just a Tease
Summary: 2 Stars
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 by the superficial facts offered up by Corcoran. The stories read like teasers for actual chapters that, apparently, were never written. Perhaps Corcoran, a fiction writer, does not understand the art of reporting and disseminating facts. Each "teaser" left me, in the words of Paul Harvey, waiting for the "rest of the story." This is a travel guide, at most, advising which Key West homes should be hanging signs that read "Jimmy Buffett slept here."
In addition, other stories are left out of context by insufficient back story (names of people but no reference to their relationship) that require the reader to already have an understanding of characters they just met.
Book Review: Jimmy Buffett: The Key West Years
Summary: 2 Stars
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. I'm surprised Buffett's Company approved such a farce.Book Review: thin but interesting
Summary: 2 Stars
...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". Sister Sparechange would approve.Book Review: Total ripoff
Summary: 1 Stars
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.Book Review: Should have listened to the bad reviews
Summary: 1 Stars
I didn't pay much attention to those that wrote this was a thin and uninspiring effort but should have. The entire book reads in a matter of minutes and there's nothing in it that makes you go "huh, that was interesting". Most of it is mundane tidbits about Buffett's time in Key West. I'm sure Buffett's years in Key West were wild, funny and memorable, this book is memorable only for the fact you're being charged $10 for a 5 minute read.