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BettyV wrote:

Moonie wrote:I had an Atocha coin..and certificate of authencity....signed by Mel Fisher...

Did you every hear that A Pirate Looks At Forty was written especially for those treasure divers?

Nope... new to me. But very interesting. Acording to the book Fisher and his family moved to the Keys in '63 in search of the Atocha's treasure. APLAF came out on A1A in '74....... hummmm.

I recently read a brief article in a magazine sent to members of electric co-ops written by a woman who was previously a member of that group. She wrote of their reunion in, where else--Key West. Said they spent the night dancing to Jimmy Buffett tunes and their favorite was APLAF, since it was written just for them.

Anyone have any more info on this story? Was Jimbo an investor in that venture?

Here is my quote from the topic listed below.....
"Just more info.......

I'm reading the book Fatal Treasure by Jedwin Smith and it says that Jimmy was shooting the cover w/ the Arbutus when the Atocha treasure was found July 20 1985 and the next day gave a mini concert, aboard the Dauntless, the next day to include "A Pirate Looks At Forty" "


http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewto ... ht=arbutus

"Sanibel Flats" Randy Wayne White
Just finished "Skinny Dip" Carl Hiassen

I finished "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiassen and have started "Skin Tight".

Last book I read was Key Weird and it was okay. I don't think it was good enough for me to get Key Weirder.
Next on the list is "Nautical Contraband" by C.G. McDaniel.

Just finished HEMINGWAY: THE FINAL YEARS by Michael Reynolds.

Explores Papa's relationships with last Martha and Mary. Didn't know much about Martha...she's been kinda overlooked in scholarship (or at least when I was in grad school).

Never really cared for Mary, but couldn't put a finger on why. Book confirmed my feelings with lots of reasons to back them up.

Excellent read if you're a fan.

Life On the Mississippi by Mark Twain. Just got past the part where he talks about the great New Orleans flood of 1886....

Hoot - Carl Hiaasen

Just finished "Double Tap," by Steve Martini.

Not one of his better works.

"Basket Case" by Carl Hiaasen. Just finished "Killjoy" by Julie Garwood.

Just finished Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach. Starting Following the Equator.

Started and finished SWEETWATER CREEK this afternoon.

Good story. Well told. About life on a fading South Carolina dog breeding plantation.

I like Anne Rivers Siddon. Like having a long lunch with a good friend, catching up on what's been going on in your lives. Comfortable.

The dust jacket says this will be an "instant classic." I'm not so sure, but it was a good afternoon's read.

Enjoy.

The Truth About Hillary.
Best part is that the book is from the library and someone left the following "message" on an index card in the book. I'm thinking that the dude would have been better off to write the author directly instead of leaving the message for the next reader.

What gives Klein, huh? Writing trash like this makes you look like an old crumpy loser This garbage isn't worth the paper it was written on ! - How about giving the truth about those hypocrites and liars in the White House, Huh? That I would consider much more frightening than Mrs Clinton could ever be!! You wouldn't dare would you Klein?!!
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(I'm assuming the write meant grumpy and NOT crumpy but that's the way it's written)

It gave me my giggles for the day that's for sure.

The Water Is Wide-Pat Conroy

Just finished this:

captainjoe wrote:Just finished this:

My girlfriend's reading this too.

Jodibug wrote:Just finished Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach. Starting Following the Equator.

Two great books!!

Mexico, by James A Michener. I love any thing by Michener and my goal is to read ALL of his books-someday.

Ilph wrote:

captainjoe wrote:Just finished this:

My girlfriend's reading this too.

Let me know what she thinks, I thought it was fantastic. I am not one that sheds tears over things that I read, but I got all teary eyed a couple of times reading this.

Here is a synopsis for anyone who cares:

FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review from Discover Great New Writers
Prodigiously talented, poetic, unflinchingly honest, and relentlessly present. A lot to live up to? Not if you're James Frey, whose memoir Pat Conroy calls "the War and Peace of addiction." As Frey will unapologetically assert, he's an Alcoholic and a Drug Dealer and a Criminal (caps his). When we meet him, he has finally hit rock bottom after a long descent into the swirling vortex of addiction, which he narrates with an in-your-face immediacy.
In rehab, Frey contemplates suicide, imagining "the happy lies" that will replace the truth in his obituary -- the fabricated transformation from reckless crackhead to "helpless martyr." But Frey's refusal to accept a conjured reality becomes his road to salvation: for if he alone is responsible for his condition and recovery, there's nobody else to blame.

Frey's stint in rehab is just two months long, but in that short time he learns that to trust himself, he must learn to trust others. He meets a shady underworld boss, a judge learning to hold himself to the standards he sets for others, a tragically beautiful crack whore, and a dangerous bully with demons worse than addiction. Despite the darkness that shadows them all as they struggle back to life, Frey withholds judgment of all but himself and embraces the purest form of personal responsibility. In doing so, he fights his way free. (Spring 2003 Selection)

FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Imagine waking up on a plane. You have no idea where you have been or where you are going, you have no memory of the preceding two weeks." "Imagine that your front four teeth have been knocked out, your nose is broken, and there is a gash on your cheek. Imagine that you have no wallet, no money, no job." "Imagine the police in three states are looking for you." "Imagine that you have been an alcoholic for ten years and a crack addict for three. What would you do? What would you do?" When he entered a residential treatment center at the age of twenty-three, James Frey had destroyed his body and his mind almost beyond repair. He faced a stark choice: accept that he wasn't going to see twenty-four or step into the fallout of his smoking wreck of a life and take drastic action. Surrounded by patients as troubled as he - including a judge, a mobster, a former world-champion boxer, and a fragile former prostitute - and a droning dogma of How to Recover, Frey had to fight to find his own way to confront the consequences of the life he had lived so far, and to determine what future, if any, he holds. A Million Little Pieces is an uncommonly genuine account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.
SYNOPSIS
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs’ Junky.” —The Boston Globe

The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group’s discussion of A Million Little Pieces, James Frey’s furious and inspired memoir of addiction and recovery.

It's Not Easy Being Green and other things to consider - Jim Henson, the Muppets, and friends