An entertaining read, but not laugh out loud, sniggeringly funny like "The World According to Clarkson", which I am currently reading, and savouring slowly, because I don't want to run out of chapters. In "I Know You Got Soul", Mr Clarkson makes some interesting analogies, man to machine, machine to history, and some typically pointed jabbing funny barbs. He basically takes what he considers to be the most beautiful, impressive, or powerful machines of the last century, and gives his take on how... more info
I don't think he is a bad writer at all:
I'm not much of a motor enthusiasts. I don't even know how to drive so what do I know about engines? But I'm reading his book because of his literary genius. His combination of humor, sarcastic and sentimental notations brought those otherwise boring old machines into life. Hence, the machines with souls. No, I still am not interested if the spark plug in one car is different than the other.. but this book sure is keeping me occupied during those long transits.
Witty and wicked... basically it's Jeremy.:
To those who is not familiar with JC, he is BBC's host for Top Gear a motoring TV show, since 2002 ([...]). He is what I would say the original Simon Cowell (of Pop Idol/American Idol); direct, brute, no-added-sweeteners critiques, witty, & entertaining (as long as you are not the subject matter). In this book he listed down 20 man made machines (1 of which was the fictional Millennium Falcon) in which he thought had their own individual souls. Why? What's the purpose? I guess simply because he... more info
HE'S GOT SOUL:
It just doesn't get much better than Clarkson. PC? The only PC in his day was Dixon of Dock Green. Says what most of Britain thinks but is getting increasingly badgered out of saying. Dave Armitage's Born to be Mild is the only thing which comes close - a novel which could have been written by Clarkson. It's uncanny.
