A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy BuffettMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a quite easy to read and an enjoyable memoir--a travelogue of a Caribbean and South American trip Buffet and family took to celebrate his 50th year. Wonderfully discursive and wandering in and out of the past, this can be read at any point. Buffet looks back to his Vietnam-era college years in Mississippi after growing up in Alabama and then transmogrifying into a musician on the Bourbon Street stages. (He intriguingly promises to write a book about these wild and seminal French Quarter years in a future book.) A few of the short chapters and vignettes focus too much on the technical minutiae of flying and fishing for me, but over all I found it a warm and pithy memoir waxing philosophical along the easygoing and nonchalant"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" vein.
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