Driving Like Crazy: Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed to Be - with an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn

A funny man who knows and loves cars!

P. J. O'Rourke republishes some of his best works of humor that involve owning, driving, crashing, and drinking in cars. Going back to his National Lampoon days, P. J. not only skirts the political-correctness line, he boozily dances back and forth across it. He writes the way we all wish we could speak in public. There are actually some real automotive industry history and commentary in between the laughs!

uninteresting

This book has to be good for something. I just don't know what. The author tried to be funny and witty. He failed in both. Book needs to be rated as a waste of money

Nice if you like his politics, otherwise mildly amusing

Mr. O'Rourke has, or at least used to have, a devastating sense of humour and a quick way with a word. Some of his earlier material in this book, such as the Car & Driver road test in Mexico, is genuinely funny.

However, Mr. O'Rourke's politics are extremely right leaning and his sense of humour when it comes to those who do not share his views veers more towards bitter and nasty and not sarcastic and funny. There are entire sections of this book in which he is nothing but a cheap political pundit, name calling in the best Fox News manner. In other parts of the book he comes off as a cheap Hunter S. Thompson impression, but without the "funny."

Mr. Rourke's automotive exploits are interesting but his retelling of them is less than that.

P.J. O'Rourke is Crazy Like a Fox

I've always been a big P.J. O'Rourke fan, and I enjoyed reading this compendium of automobile "crazy" articles. The only drawback is that some of the articles are 20 or more years old, so the cultural/social context is now lost in the faded memories of generation "What me worry?"

This is one for the trash bin.

Boring stories compiled from former magazine articles. Most driving articles were based on his driving while stoned on drugs or booze. He should be dragged off to jail by MADD. Total waste of money and time. Threw it in the trash where it can be recycled into anything better.

Oh, for the 60's when cars had personality...and their drivers, too!

Funny, a bit irreverant, maybe a bit exaggerated (car tales like fishing tales...), did I say facetious, and a bit influenced by his mentor - David E. Made me laugh.

Not P.J.'s best.

A collection of various auto-related pieces from over the past 30 plus years with a few new comments and shorts added. I generally like O'Rourke's "smart ass" humor and found parts of this book to be LOL quality. But generally felt there were more valleys than hills on the humor rating scale. If you can buy used, or otherwise on the cheap, I would recommend it. Or of course, check it out from your public library before they are all closed.

Not as good as previous P.J.'s works

This seems to be a compilation of articles from periodicals I read 20+ years ago. I suppose the younger crowd would find it funny, but I never even finished the book. It now resides on a shelf for someone else.

P.J.......quit living the 60's and 70's (this coming from a 65 year old Vietnam vet).

Crap

Conglomeration of routine articles from auto and motorcycle magazines of 10-20 years ago. Includes all the jargon and crap that have ruined this genre' for most enthusiasts in the last few years.
The stories and anecdotes are just as unbelievable as they were in the 70's.

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