The World According to Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson
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Book Summary Author: Jeremy Clarkson Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2010-03-24 ISBN: 0141017899 Number of pages: 352 Publisher: Penguin Global |
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Book Reviews of the The World According to Clarkson
Customer Review: Clarkson the contrarian's essays on modern life
Summary: 3 Stars
The British TV motoring journalist and all-round national celebrity Jeremy Clarkson is in many ways a professional contrarian: larger-than-life, eloquent, iconoclastic, opinionated, fearless and never, ever dull. This collection of his Sunday Times columns (the first of a series of such collections) spans a range of experiences and opinions about: health and safety fascists, the ignorance (according to Clarkson) of environmentalists, government, the EU good and bad, impressions of various European locations, Americans, fox hunting, attitudes to science, art, puncturing the celebrity balloon, football, cricket, 70s rock music, pretentious restaurants - in fact it is so much a summary of what riles the articulate middle-aged male that it might be the definitive synopsis of the popular UK TV series "Grumpy Old Men." It's often laugh-out-loud funny.
Although Clarkson is pro-engineering and champions genuine innovation and good technology, one subject conspicuously missing from these short essays is cars. These columns are where Clarkson vents his spleen about everything else.
Clarkson can sum up in a newspaper column his views on any subject, and his writing style is wry and entertaining. The reader can take exception to his decidedly anti-PC views, but it's hard to dislike a man of such genuinely engaging wit and intelligence. Not everyone's cup of tea maybe, but he has his audience and in the UK it's a large one - deservedly. Our modern world needs more people like him.