Product Description

Best-selling writer Jimmy Buffett weaves an irresistible new tale---filled with colorful characters, wry humor, and the pursuit of a very clever pig.

When Southern belle Ellie McBride moves her twins from Vertigo, Tennessee to New York City, they wouldn't dream of leaving behind the family pig Rumpy. But the posh hotel where Ellie has found work (and living space) has "No Pets" writ large on its portal. So hiding Rumpy from the hotel staff---especially the ultra-carnivorous hotel chef, who would like nothing better than to transform their pet into pork roast---becomes imperative.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6443 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-13
• Released on: 2008-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
for A Pirate Looks at Fifty - 'Jimmy Buffett has gregarious charm... and a bottomless well of stories to tell. Reading 'A Pirate Looks at Fifty' is like sitting with Buffett at a beachside bar, listening to him spin tales and share nifty bits of geography and history' - Time 'Buffett takes the occasion of his 50th birthday to tell us about himself, and he does so with candour and modesty... a charming, decent, wry, kind and contemplative man' - NY Times Book Review

Review
"The planet's most successful beach bum." (New York Daily News )

"[The] grand potentate of the Parrotheads." (USA TODAY Craig Wilson )

About the Author
Jimmy Buffett is the author of the national bestseller " A Salty Piece of Land" as well as"A Pirate Looks at Fifty,""Tales from Margaritaville," which was on the bestseller list for seven months, and the bestselling "Where Is Joe Merchant?." Buffett is also a singer and songwriter with many hit singles and legions of fans. He has his own record company, his own radio station, and chains of restaurants and stores. He lives on Long Island and in Florida.

Customer Reviews

Pure Hogwash!
I've always enjoyed Buffett's music and found his previous books interesting enough. "Swine Not", however, didn't even come close to entertaining. To be honest, I've read thousands of books, some great, some not so good. But this is probably one of less than five that I've not even bothered to waste my time finishing. Boring, unfunny, and unimaginative...at least the first 60 pages!

more like a childs novel
I loved it, but found it more like a childs novel than for adults. It was a very fast read.

Less is more
Less is more.

The concept of a pig and his 12-year old buddy narrating a story is darling -- yes, I said darling (see 'precious') -- but even Jimmie Buffett can't stretch it into a novel. As it goes on and on and on, the story drags and the villain, Monsieur Boucher, becomes plain annoying.

Jimmie Buffett admits up front that a friend brought him a delightful 25-page story about a pig living in a 4-star hotel. He should have left it alone. At 25 pages, it was undoubtedly a charming story. At 200+ pages, it gets to be a real bore -- probably even for the 5th graders who would make up its ideal audience.


No, even I, a card-carrying Jimmie Buffett fan, liked it. Further, if it took two years to write, his editor must be meaner than mine (and simply threw his hands up and said, in the end, "Do what you will.)