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 enlarge | Author: Jimmy Buffett
Creator: Helen Bransford
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $21.99
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 3823
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0316114022
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316114028
ASIN: 0316114022
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Hard cover, no dust jacket. Nice condition.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Swhy? September 15, 2008
I'm a big Buffett fan - own dozens of recordings and all of his other non-children's books, but this one was a big disappointment.
It should have been marketed for pre-teen readers - it was a like a Disney story.
It is very thick with hyperbole - extremely talented twins, perfectly adjusted to their parents' divorce and excelling in every thing they do (he doesn't just play soccer - he's the star of the team, she doesn't just like fashion - she's a designer and seamstress of epic proportions, the mother isn't just a chef - she draws the attention of the whole world).
The villian is even very Disney-esque, and the further the story goes, we learn that all animals (except for humans) communicate fluently with each other. Every character gets their own dream happy ending.
I would recommend this book for young readers. I would encourage Amazon and other bookstores to move it out of the adult fiction category.
 Funny story September 10, 2008
I have never read any of his books before but read the product description and review online before listening to the CD. It was very reliable to the description and it was a fun book. It is a book about a family that has a pet pig and lives on a top room in a hotel and has to keep their pig from management and a coworker in order to keep the mom's job and stay there and really gets into the pig's feelings. Kind of unique.
No Expectations August 30, 2008
If you pick it up without expectations of pirates and the caribbean, you will enjoy it. Finding Your Costa Rica : 5 Powerful Steps to Personal, Professional and Financial Success
Too Awful for Words August 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had never read a Jimmy Buffett book before - and I vow to never do so again after this painful experience.
Two-dimensional characters, have seen better plots in George Corman movies. Think the movie "Dunston Checks In" done with a pig. And the pig is the main narrator.
I would never have finished this waste of paper if it had not been a book club selection. Even the woman who picked the book, a parrot-head, admitted it was bad.
Jimmy Buffett NOT at his best August 1, 2008
I've read all of Jimmy Buffett's books. If your thinking this book "Swine Not" is going to be anything like the rest your WRONG.
Midway through the book you feel as if your reading a children's story. Not at all what I expected. Its not horrible, but I would borrow it, not buy it.
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