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Description: ISBN 0141028998 / Author: Jeremy Clarkson / Genre: Humour / Clarkson's views on cars and motoring make for interesting reading but do ... more
Born to Be Riled - Jeremy Clarkson ... tend to speak to the more initiated enthusiast than the casual driver and analogies and comparisons are often lost on all but the most technically minded car fanatic. However, Clarkson writes with joyous wit and even when his arguments seem a little shaky, you can't help but find yourself nodding in agreement or realising that he is riled by all the things in life that you are--being stuck behind a caravan on a country back road or the drink-driving laws in this country. In much the same way as Bill Bryson chronicles life's daily woes and pitfalls with a scathing sense of humour, so Clarkson speaks for a silent majority who are secretly incensed by a million and one things everyday of their lives, but are just a little too British to say anything.

Newest Review: ... in the media where he can actually have his opinion without censure, Richard Littlejohn and John Gaunt style. He’s ever so ... more

 ... slightly right of centre views speaks for the majority of the nation and his tirade against this politically correct suitcase Blair has jack-booted us into can only be commended. Love him or hate him he has kept free speech alive. He is also an excellent comic writer, every one of his books best sellers. In fact I didn’t realize how good he was until I waded into this. This one is a collection of his articles from various broadsheets and motoring magazines, the bulk of the material on cars and motoring things in gene...more

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Premium Review Born to Be Riled - Jeremy Clarkson: Eat my spoiler! (893 words)
by thedevilinme - written on 31/07/07 (Very useful, 244 readings)
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Just as Richard & Judy’s Book Club will get your tome or novel in the national top ten book charts if it’s featured on their Channel Four show, however good the read, Jeremy Clarkson has the same clout with car sales in the UK. The power of television dictates that the prat Richard (he’s not gay, really!) and his chubby old duffer of a wife (Britain’s only arranged marriage for a white couple) are the chosen ones as far as picking the nations literature goes and so therefore Jeremy Clarkson must be the messiah as far as boys and their car choices goes, although few can afford the gas guzzling behemoths the chubby public schoolboy usually plonks in his huge ...

 

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