Jeneral's review
A Salty Piece of Land by Jimmy Buffett
Jeneral's review
rating:
recommended for: Jimmy Buffett fans, lovers of all things tropic
status: Read in August, 2007
rating:
recommended for: Jimmy Buffett fans, lovers of all things tropic
status: Read in August, 2007
A story that takes place everywhere from Wyoming to Mexico to Key West to the fictional island of Cayo Loco in the Bahamas. It's about how Tully Mars, a cowboy from Wyoming, ends up working for 101-year-old Cleopatra Highbourne, restoring the Cayo Loco lighthouse.
Get ready for a good ramble. Do not read this book if you want a story that goes from point A to point B in a hurry. The narrator will often pause in recounting the story at hand to backtrack and tell you a different story for a little while. Or he'll get a letter from a friend, that will end up being a story about a story HE gets told. Reading this book is like spending a long Florida summer evening nursing a sweating longneck or two while your best new friend at the next barstool tells you how he got where he is today. Entertaining and worth the listen, but sometimes you really wish he'd get to the point.
Jimmy Buffett fans will probably get a kick out of seeing how many song and/or album references he stuck in ...more
Get ready for a good ramble. Do not read this book if you want a story that goes from point A to point B in a hurry. The narrator will often pause in recounting the story at hand to backtrack and tell you a different story for a little while. Or he'll get a letter from a friend, that will end up being a story about a story HE gets told. Reading this book is like spending a long Florida summer evening nursing a sweating longneck or two while your best new friend at the next barstool tells you how he got where he is today. Entertaining and worth the listen, but sometimes you really wish he'd get to the point.
Jimmy Buffett fans will probably get a kick out of seeing how many song and/or album references he stuck in ...more
