The World According to Clarkson
by Jeremy Clarkson
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Author: Jeremy ClarksonEdition: 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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Summary: 1 Stars
Reading his columns in the Sunday Times and watching Top Gear, I used to find the celebratedly grouchy, reactionary Jeremy Clarkson a refreshing and witty change from the usual political correctness which dominates popular media these days.
But then I made the mistake of firstly buying this book - which I discovered too late is just a collection of old columns, some dating back as much as five years, which *really* grate when read back to back, and not a new, much less coherent, body of work - and secondly taking it on holiday with a copy of P. J. O'Rourke's Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism, which is a collection of (in truth not particularly good, for him) columns from a reactionary writer who actually has some talent, wit, perspective and insight.
In the process of tiresomely reminding us about how *he* has a column on the Sunday Times, Clarkson frequently, tiresomely, reminds us how he got started on the Rotherham Advertiser, and it takes a grounding of that sort to willingly concoct an expression as tiresome as "it felt like having your fingernails pulled out whilst being force-fed used engine oil" without having the gumption to realise how accurately it describes the experience of reading this book.
Unless you are a Little Englander (according to the cover, half a million of them have already bought this dreadful little volume), avoid.
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