A Salty Piece of Land | Jimmy Buffett

A Salty Piece of Land | Jimmy Buffett | One of the most pleasurable reads

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A Salty Piece of Land

	A Salty Piece of Land Jimmy Buffett Amazon Remainders Account, 2004 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 119 reviews view larger image
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If Tully Mars had known what he was getting himself into when he agreed to help find the lost lens belonging to the lighthouse on Cayo Loco-well, he might never have agreed to help in the first place. Then again, maybe he simply would have taken a slightly longer nap before setting off on his wild adventure. And it isn't just Tully-whom Buffett fans will remember well from Jimmy's bestselling Tales from Margaritaville-on the madcap quest. There's Ix-Nay, an Indian shaman with a dislike of the media; Mr. Twain, Tully's loyal steed; Cleopatra Highbourne, the 102-year-old owner of Cayo Loco and Cuban baseball addict; Captain Kirk, fishing trip leader and boatman extraordinaire; former country music star Sean Spurl, aka Tex Sex; Bucky Norman, a Wyoming cowboy who has found his way to the ocean; and even a fellow named Jimmy Buffett, who decides he might as well join in on the party. Raucous, wise, and familiar with the world's wonderful strangeness, A SALTY PIECE OF LAND is the perfect summertime confection.

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Light ahoy!

This book can be read on many levels: as a light humorous piece, as a passion play, as a piece with symbolism, or as a story in search of a philosophy. I like the first best.

The core of the story is the renovation of a lighthouse, not an exciting topic. It only becomes exciting through the characters...or maybe the power of coincidence...or maybe the power of goodness.

This book has something for everybody, from a doofus to an intellectual college professor. Take it as you like. It's a joy.

One of the most pleasurable reads

This was one of the most pleasurable reads for me, and I read about a book per week, so that's saying a lot. Maybe it's because it combines my own loves of flying, sailing, and adventure. The character is pretty much Jimmy himself in a fictional tale. I'm reading it again (something I seldom do) right now and am enjoying it just as much.

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A Wake from the Light

Many years ago I was standing on a boardwalk in San Diego adjacent to an open air cantina. Sitting under a thatched umbrella was a party of fun enjoyers. They had multi-colored drinks topped with paper parasols and chunks of fruit. Here's what caught my attention: they were laughing; they were carrying on, they were zestfully loud; they were probably drunk. I was sober; and, as a non-drinker, always had been. But in my youthful interpretation of their revelry, I vowed to become a drinker by my middle years. I wanted to be those guys. I wanted to sit with a bunch of buddies and swap great stories. I wanted to laugh, DAGNABIT! Well exactly one Bartles & Jaymes and one headache and absolutely no feeling good later, my grand drinking schemes self-liquidated. What a light weight I am! And that was a few years back, then. Fast forward to now - my dream has been realized. Reading Buffet's (Jimmy, not Warren) book [no drinking involved] was my great vacation get away at that cantina swapping fun stories with endearing party people. No raging gun battles, no kung-fu action, no car chases, no defusing detonations... just a casual tale that tickles your reading fancy like a gentle off shore Carribean breeze.

I don't really buy (nor steal) music. I'm not much of a listener (I'm sorry, what did you just say?). But I liked this Buffet book so much, I ran out and bought two of his CD's. I plan to read his other books later (except for the one with a pig in it, just how good could that be?).

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Fans: read with "Pirate looks at 40" in the background.

Includes free CD with new Jimmy Buffett single. The song isn't much--a slight musical summary of the novel.

The novel is good, short of greatness by a 50-pages-long momentum-killing letter in the middle about a cargo cult in the South Pacific. Yes, it ties in to the story, but isn't very interesting.

Salty is a continuation of the life of Tully Mars, the Wyoming cowboy who took his pony to the shore to escape a former employer whom he left under less than good terms. He meanders through the Carribean moving from shore to sea to air to island to lighthouse.

As in his songs, Jimmy has such a way of painting a style and a mood that makes you feel a specific but non-existent place that you wish you could find but never will. A Pirate looks at 40? Yeah, I'm the farthest thing from that, but I'll sing it at full volume in the car anyway, and wish I was that mythical person in that mythical place. Its why people love Buffett. If you do, read this; if not, it's a coin toss.

Buffett's latest: Swine Not?: A Novel.

Buffett's best: Tales from Margaritaville

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