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'I'd give my 15-year-old son James May's How to Land an A330 Airbus... It's a really funny book.' (Anthony Worral Thompson, Sunday Express S Magazine )
'Mandatory lavatory reading for a nation of men' (Independent on CAR FEVER )
'His tongue-in-cheek technical explanations here will have you howling with laughter.' (Daily Telegraph )
'Knowledge no man should be without' (Woman & Home )
'I'd give my 15-year-old son James May's How to Land an A330 Airbus... It's a really funny book.' (Anthony Worral Thompson, Sunday Express S Magazine )
'Mandatory lavatory reading for a nation of men' (Independent on CAR FEVER )
'James May is the best thing ever to come out of Top Gear'
(Radio Times )'Smart, sharply written'
(Guardian on JAMES MAY'S MAGNIFICENT MACHINES )'The most loveable of the Top Gear presenting trio . . . there's a sharp and interesting mind under the corduroy. Fascinating.'
(Nottingham Evening Post on JAMES MAY'S MAGNIFICENT MACHINES )'His tongue-in-cheek technical explanations here will have you howling with laughter.' (Daily Telegraph )
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
`Do not actually do any of this. This book is intended for male fantasy entertainment purposes only.'
14 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover
Yes, you should judge this book by its cover. And take, very seriously, this advice:
`Neither the author nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility or liability for any harm arising from the techniques, advice or situations described in this book.'
But if you want step-by-step instructions on how to land an A330 Airbus in an emergency, how to fight a duel, or invade the Isle of Wight then this may well be the book for you. Especially if you are a man who reads (and follows) step-by-step instructions. You may (or may not) be enlightened by the chapters telling you how to drive the Peppercorn Class A1 4-6-2 Pacific Locomotive `Tornado' and how to deliver twins, and I certainly wouldn't suggest defusing an unexploded World War II German bomb, or preparing and eating your best mate. The other two chapters tell you how to escape from Butlins and how to play the first movement of Beethoven's `Moonlight' sonata.
I enjoyed the first chapter most, and liked the underlying idea that the book came about because James May was bored with the portrayal of men as endearingly hopeless and that there was a need for a book like this which showed men how to do really useful things instead of things like tying a bow tie in fifty different ways in less than 30 seconds.
Whether or not you find this book funny will depend a lot on your sense of humour. I found some parts funny but thought that others were too silly to be funny. But, then, I'm not really part of the target audience.
`The chances that you will ever meet with the circumstances outlined here are, frankly, very remote.'
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
`Neither the author nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility or liability for any harm arising from the techniques, advice or situations described in this book.'
But if you want step-by-step instructions on how to land an A330 Airbus in an emergency, how to fight a duel, or invade the Isle of Wight then this may well be the book for you. Especially if you are a man who reads (and follows) step-by-step instructions. You may (or may not) be enlightened by the chapters telling you how to drive the Peppercorn Class A1 4-6-2 Pacific Locomotive `Tornado' and how to deliver twins, and I certainly wouldn't suggest defusing an unexploded World War II German bomb, or preparing and eating your best mate. The other two chapters tell you how to escape from Butlins and how to play the first movement of Beethoven's `Moonlight' sonata.
I enjoyed the first chapter most, and liked the underlying idea that the book came about because James May was bored with the portrayal of men as endearingly hopeless and that there was a need for a book like this which showed men how to do really useful things instead of things like tying a bow tie in fifty different ways in less than 30 seconds.
Whether or not you find this book funny will depend a lot on your sense of humour. I found some parts funny but thought that others were too silly to be funny. But, then, I'm not really part of the target audience.
`The chances that you will ever meet with the circumstances outlined here are, frankly, very remote.'
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
James May's elequent style of writing shines through in this book.
Although it is advised you never undertake any of the tasks outlined in the book, it is undoubtedly a very amusing read.
Topics range from:
How to build an escape tunnel from that unholiest of places, Bultins
How to avoid pointless and expensive litigation by fighting a duel
How to deliver twins without making a fool of yourself, or worse, killing anyone
How to drive a Peppercorn Class A1 4-6-2 Pacific Locamotive 'Tornado'
How to invade the Isle of White
How to eat your sadly departed best mate in times of peril
How to defuse an unexploded present from the 'Jerries', i.e. a World War Two bomb
How to woo a woman by playing the First Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C-Sharp Minor... Opus 27... No. 2... Quasi Una Fantasia... 'The Moonlight'... With no previous experience.
And finally, as the title suggests, how to land an airbus A330
In the course of reading this book, you may get slighlty confused, particularly when he outlines the flight controls for the Airbus, but, by giving James your undivided attention, you will come away from this book feeling happy at the new, so called, "man skills" you have aqquired.
Although it is advised you never undertake any of the tasks outlined in the book, it is undoubtedly a very amusing read.
Topics range from:
How to build an escape tunnel from that unholiest of places, Bultins
How to avoid pointless and expensive litigation by fighting a duel
How to deliver twins without making a fool of yourself, or worse, killing anyone
How to drive a Peppercorn Class A1 4-6-2 Pacific Locamotive 'Tornado'
How to invade the Isle of White
How to eat your sadly departed best mate in times of peril
How to defuse an unexploded present from the 'Jerries', i.e. a World War Two bomb
How to woo a woman by playing the First Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C-Sharp Minor... Opus 27... No. 2... Quasi Una Fantasia... 'The Moonlight'... With no previous experience.
And finally, as the title suggests, how to land an airbus A330
In the course of reading this book, you may get slighlty confused, particularly when he outlines the flight controls for the Airbus, but, by giving James your undivided attention, you will come away from this book feeling happy at the new, so called, "man skills" you have aqquired.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
May must be quite off his head! Found parts of it quite funny, how to escape from Butlins and how to invade the Isle of Wight, but others less so. Lots of pages diagrams or pictures so less real pages than the actual page count. Quick to read. But you never know when you might need to deliver twins! Probably the only chapter you might remember something from!
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Excellent Book for anyone - funny!
James has again written an interesting, entertaining and fun to read book about the modern male. As a woman, I can say that the bit about the piano playing is true! Read more
Published 1 month ago by cmq342
Highly entertaining
This book includes a disclaimer stating that readers should not attempt any of the activities described therein. Read more
Published 2 months ago by N. Young
not as I expected
I originally bought this as I thought Mr May's monotonous tone and dreary subject matter would cure me of my insomnia. Read more
Published 3 months ago by R. M. Burrage
James May stories
this arrived in a timely manner. The book is full of short stories about varying products. It should make a good stocking filer for Xmas.
Published 5 months ago by Grumpy Grandad
A little let down
Reads like a bunch of magazine articles, which is fine, but I did feel a little robbed by the half empty pages, many of which are filled with diagrams. Read more
Published 6 months ago by ikeano
Captain Slow at his best!
I saw the book and it made something tingle, so I just bought it. Obviously before I recieved it wasn't sure what it was going to be like, as I had not read anything from James... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Carlo C.
Sample only - Nice pictures, scant text
This book is very much like May's BBC2 series, even including identical subjects such as defusing a WW2 bomb. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Andrew Ives
You're welcome.
How to Land an A330 AirbusThis book combines wit with smart little tips, after reading the first 40 pages you believe that you could save the lives of a plane in jeopardy, you're... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Nathan
Good read with typical James May humour (though might not have...
My review is of the audio version of the book How to Land an A330 Airbus: And Other Vital Skills for the Modern Man. Read more
Published 11 months ago by MasterOfNinja
KIndle price
Whilst I would love to buy and read this book on Kindle, the price is a rippoff and typical of price fixing by publishers
Published 13 months ago by Mr. N. C. D. Bloom
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