Book Review: And another thing: The World according to Clarkson

Got this one as a Christmas present. It is basically a compilation of newspaper columns by Top Gear Presenter Jeremy Clarkson. It's got a few interesting stories in it, and a couple that really made me laugh. The first story about how your perceived status-in-life is affected by the colour of your credit card, yet the prestigious "black" credit card turned out to be completely useless was in my opinion one of the best. His comments on how the old does not understand the young and how there is probably nothing left that makes any sense to his mother was also quite good.

But then I started getting irritated because of the frequent moaning about speed cameras and anti-smoking legislation. I for one am all for anti-smoking legislation, mostly because I have chronic sinusitus and smoke makes it worse. And no-one can deny that speed does kill, even though our local authorities does apply it somewhat selectively in areas where they are bound to make the most money. On the one hand he says people should stop moaning about the marriage legislation that disallows gay marriages and just deal with it (he says the law was meant to establish a safe place for kids to be born into, so by definition gays do not qualify, just like he does not qualify to play for man united as he has terrible ball sense), yet he himself cannot stop moaning about tax on tobacco or tax on fast driving.

Except for that, and the fact that many of the things he writes about makes little sense outside of brittain, it isn't too bad.