Driving Like Crazy : Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be-With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman

from Philogos

PJ O'Rourke is an American right wing political journalist and crazy libertarian. This book, in particular, reveals him as the US answer to Jeremy Clarkson, with the same iconoclastic sense of humour and ability to annoy the more sensitive among us. The book is mostly a compilation or retelling o...

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“Fun saves us from political dictatorship.” — P.J. O'Rourke, “Driving Like Crazy” Conservative political humorist P.J. O'Rourke has always regarded cars in general and driving cars in particular as fun. Thus the above line from his 2009 book “Driving Like Crazy” nicely combines two of the main th...

from cliffagogo

P.J. O'Rourke has been writing about driving for half his life, and his love for all things four (and, indeed, two) wheeled is evident in Driving Like Crazy, a funny, irreverent collection of insights compiled from his many car articles over thirty years. I've been reading his books for almost as...

from bensdad00

Not being a gear-head I probably missed more than a few of the nuances in this collection of car-centric columns, but they are well written and entertaining enough to be worth a read even if you replace every car-centric paragraph with the phrase doohickey and thingamajig, or if you skip them ent...

from MaryWJ

The first part was very funny and I laughed out loud several times listening to it. But I think even the author gets bored with all the "car trip; lots of things break" stories and the humor really trails off.