Customer Reviews
Stop him now - By: Mark Billinge, 19 Nov 2008 
I went to school with him, & contrary to what he saysin the Sunday Times, he was expelled for smoking dope at the prep school !
I am a fan , however; Top gear is great & his books are good fun to read but give me a break , they are all the same !
I live abroad , but when I come back to visit I like to go into the big bookshops & am invariably bombarded with the latest Jeremy Clarkson offering. This is getting annoying .
However funny he might be , there is only so much that can be written about cars, late seventies rock music & what there is still good about England.
Don't stop me now - By: Mr. Andrew Day, 18 Oct 2008 
Don't Stop Me NowWhat a fantastic read, you'd think this book would only appeal to the petrol heads. Don't be fooled. Very well written & it's super how Jeremy can twist his topic to fit the item under review.
Car reviews that are laugh out loud! - By: Mr. M. A. Woods, 13 Oct 2008 Firstly, this is more than a book about cars. It is Mr Clarkson's dry, witty & always cynical outlook on the world. If, like me, you find reliefin discovering someone who is still politically incorrect, chauvanistic & doesn't care who knows it you will love the book. I found a lot of myself reflectedin reading this
I have not enjoyed reading a book as much as thisin a long time. The format of the reviews makes this an easy read to pick up & put down. Reviews are about 4 pages on average with great photography. The first 3 pages of a review are devoted to a humorous commentary on something seemingly unconnected with a car. This is always rectifiedin the last page with a surprisingly insightful description of the car itself. I believe all the reviews have previously been publishedin The Times.
Many car types are covered; supercars to the lowliest of runabouts....they're all here. Genuinely useful information can be found within the covers....not just the eye-watering performance figures of Veyrons & Diablos.
I would have no hesitationin recommending this book for both entertainment & basic information on the cars reviewed. Someone who was only a fan of humour would probably be best advised to steer clear (amusing pun intended) as this is a serious work of car journalism too.
At the time of writing (October 2008) Jeremy has been involvedin a head on crash but early reports indicate that he is pretty much unscathed; "My right index finger looked like a burst sausage, my left shin was fatter than my thigh & my back felt like someone had driven over it with a pile-driver."
Good luck with the recovery, Jeremy, & lets hope another book as good as this appears soon.
Funny and funnier - By: Mr. R. J. Spencer, 14 Aug 2008 Now we all know that Clarkson makes loads of money from selling books full of stuff he has already writtenin the paper but so what....who cares whether he's making extra money or not when you get to read this much funny stuff allin one book!
We all know he says he's writing about cars whenin fact he just rants about complete rubbish for 3/4's of the articles....but who cares when he can make rubbish this funny!!!
We all know that Clarkson is a pompous, over opinionated, biggot....who cares....he's funnier than most other people you can read these days!!
I love this book....I think all the clarkson books are great but this one really is one of his best. I like the fact that they have made a bit more effort & actually put pictures of the cars he is talking aboutin the book. I probably like it more because it is more recent as well so the jokes are more topical.
If you want a bit of light reading, you know the kind of thing you can liein bed & giggle to or sitin on a sunday morning & relax to then this is the book for you. Its light hearted, its funny, its easy to read & it offends 90% of the population which has to make you laugh doesn't to really!!
I'm not sure I will ever vote Clarkson for Prime Minister but I would certainly give him my vote when it comes to his writing. Dont think about the fact that he makes money out of this book having already been paid for writing the articles for the paper. It doesn't make any difference to you it just means you get to read all his funniest materialin one go, which to be honest, is well worth the money!! In fact, with that kind of money making ability maybe he should be our Prime Minister!!!
"To everyone except John Prescott" - By: Mr. Nicholas J Robertson, 07 Jun 2008 
Jezza's dedication, above, is a little unfair,in that he & the redoubtable Mr "two-jags" Prescott at least share a passion for cars. I like Clarkson's refreshinging un-PC attitude, although not his complancency about CO2 (although he may yet turn out to be right) & enjoy his columns on cars, & on more general matters,in The Sunday Times.
But is this a good book? Mr wife bought me it for Christmas, bouyed up no doubt by my positive reaction to "The World according to Clarkson" the year before, but I have read perhaps half of the fifty or so "chapters". Why?
Well, I can remember most of them from when I first read them, 2003 - 2006, for a start. At the same time, some of the contemporary references were so fleeting that they conjure forth no recollection at all. For example:in October 2003 "BBC bosses" decided to replace DJ Sara Cox with someone. Jezza suggested it was "The Queen". I have no recollection at all what that was about - have you?
In any case, Clarkson's humour about cars is perhaps a little intense when presentedin such a format.
Whereas the content of a peperback is normally exactly the same as the hardback that preceeded it, be aware that the paperback does not include the excellent colour plates of all of the cars. As with the hardback, you don't get the number of "stars" Clarkson awarded to each carin that paper. How much would that have cost?
This is a book for the "lavatory reference section", from which to try to read one chapter before bed, or from dipping into on some other basis. Within those terms it succeeds.
