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| | | CHILDREN | Home » » Tales from Margaritaville | | | | | | | Description: | | Margaritaville may not appear on a map, but it does exist--at least in the brilliantly creative, sometimes slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett. Tales from Margaritaville is a collection of short stories (some purely fiction, some based in truth) so vividly packed with restless dreamers, wild wanderers, and pure gypsy souls that just reading it is a wild adventure. Travel along with a cowboy named Tully Mars, as he heads from Heartache, Wyoming, to Graceland, and relive the autobiographical odyssey of a third-generation sailor and first-rate musical outlaw. With unforgettable stories that present the true roamer's twin loves--the sea and the road--Tales from Margaritaville is one "smooth sailing book of infinite imagination" (Chicago Sun-Times). | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9780156026987
• Condition: New
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Jimmy Buffett | | Paperback:
| 264 pages | | Publisher:
| Mariner Books | | Publication Date:
| June 03, 2002 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0156026988 | | Package Length:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 56 reviews |
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 Not bad, but not great eitherFeb 22, 2010
If you are a fan of Buffett's, you'll enjoy this book for about all it gives you. I found myself rolling my eyes whenever he pulled out a line or phrase from one of his books, and found some of the stories more interesting than others. They aren't consistent--it's like he decided he needed a love story here, a sports story there...I liked that he repeated characters we would meet in one story and write about them, so you got to know people, but some of the stories were trite and almost like he wrote them without any editing. I would have preferred if he didn't jump forward and then back and then forward again in time, but all in all I'm not sorry I read it.
More than once, the "I love you, but I have to live my own life" plot was used, food is often mentioned (and in great detail) and of course the sea is always present almost as a character in and of itself.
Just not sure I'd recommend it to anyone but a true Parrothead.
 Tales From MargaritavilleJan 30, 2010
It was in good condition. It had not been read but the bottom binding was alittle dirty. Not anything to complain about. We now have a complete collection of all of Buffets books again. Someone had "borrowed" this one from us and it never was returned. Thanks to Amazon again!
Not JabanoskiApr 06, 2009
I'm a twenty year plus Parrot Head, but this, and Jimmy's other books, just don't live up to his island buddy Bill Jabanoski's "The Roadkill Diaries: Strange Tales From Key West And Beyond" or its sequel "Beyond The Mirror: The Roadkill Diaries, Part II." Jimmy may have invented the Key West musical style, but he's not the writer Jabanoski is. Jimmy's books, all of which I bought as soon as they were available, are good, but Jabanoski is the true great writer of Key West.
Buy this book. It's pretty good. But if you want some of the real tropical craziness buy Jabanoski's books too or instead of this and Buffett's other novels.
Margaritaville--Vintage Jimmy BuffettNov 25, 2008
Tales From Margaritaville is an early look at Jimmy Buffett's
style and imagery. Even here you get a wonderful sense of
the carefree lifestyle that Buffett develops further in his
later writings. It is very captivating and inviting.
Sheer Vacation FunSep 20, 2008
I am a high school English teacher, so I spend the year functioning on a high literary level, teaching the kids to see and understand metaphor and imagery. I read this this book over the summer, and, like Buffet's others, it has imagery and metaphor. The difference is that the book is sheer fun to read. Buffet pulls you away on a Caribbean holiday. While reading Margaritaville, I longed for island vacations I've enjoyed. As the man wrote, I wish I was sailing again.
Michael B
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