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This spoof of Jeremy Clarkson's newspaper columns and Top Gear broadcasting style is ... blissfully funny. --Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2010 Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2010
... had me shaking with laughter; or, as Klaxon sagely puts it, "trembling like an uncle at his niece's netball final".
--Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2010 Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2010
'A hilarious parody of Jeremy Clarkson's meatheaded, hand 'em and flog 'em style.'
--Daily Telegraph
... had me shaking with laughter; or, as Klaxon sagely puts it, "trembling like an uncle at his niece's netball final".
--Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2010 Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2010
'A hilarious parody of Jeremy Clarkson's meatheaded, hand 'em and flog 'em style.'
--Daily Telegraph
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Driving Us Insane reveals the presenter of TV's cult motoring series Bottom Gear as he has never been revealed before. Week by week, car by car, stunt by stunt and challenge by challenge, it describes - in forthright, no-holds-barred detail - the events of a year to remember in the life of a legend of British broadcasting. From his inadvertent running down of Roger Moore in an Aston Martin DBS to his gate-crashing of the set of a gay porn movie in a golf buggy, this is Klaxon laid bare. UTTERLY, TOTALLY, BARE. The cars that inspire him, the friends and colleagues who admire him, the women who desire him, the ramblers, environ-mentalists and lesbian schoolteachers who rile him. If Driving Us Insane was a car, it would be a 7.3-litre, 12-cylinder Pagani Zonda F driving down the M40 Chiltern gap at 150 mph with a JBL GTO-1202D Subwoofer belting out The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' while Myleene Klass swoons naked in the passenger seat. ONLY BETTER. MUCH BETTER.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Well, if you're looking for knock-down, reasonably obvious and unintelligent reading, this is not the book for you. It is cleverly observed and has the true voice of Clarkson himself, only sharper, wittier, funnier. Added to which, it's actually a picaresque adventure with a real plot... real laugh-aloud stuff, like Klaxon crashing the making of a gay porn movie in a golf-cart (don't ask) or accidentally wiping out Roger Moore, complete with safari suit, on a Swiss mountain road. This will be my buy for Christmas stockings for all the blokes with a brain cell and a sense of humour...
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I read some enthusiastic reviews about this book and put it on my Christmas list. Mistake. It is a boring parody of Clarkson's books. I got halfway through it without a single smile, let alone a chuckle and gave up.
It just goes to show that you cannot rely on reviews - probably including this one!
It just goes to show that you cannot rely on reviews - probably including this one!
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I read the newspaper reviews and thought this would be an ideal Christmas present for friends who enjoy the political incorrectness and occasional insufferability that is Jeremy Clarkson.
Was I wrong.
It should be fun. A satire lampooning a satirist. Well I must have missed the plot.
Clarkson can be an arrogant and up his own back side person at times, but many are amused.
This book is just a cheap hack job and puts the bottom into bottom-feeding.
Witty banter is ain't.
Where do I send the books back to?
Was I wrong.
It should be fun. A satire lampooning a satirist. Well I must have missed the plot.
Clarkson can be an arrogant and up his own back side person at times, but many are amused.
This book is just a cheap hack job and puts the bottom into bottom-feeding.
Witty banter is ain't.
Where do I send the books back to?
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