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 Audiobook

" The first 2/3 is great, but it gets a bit old and repetitive. There is some great car stuff here is you are a car guy. "

" Some parts of this book are excellent and absolutely hilarious, but I thought the new stuff was lacking. For whatever reason, the older O'Rourke gets, the more shrill he sounds to me. "

" P.J. O'Rourke is one of the funnier writers currently writing. His books are also surprisingly educational. If you are a car person and have a sense of humor, you shopuld read this book. "

" So far, my continuing with this book at all is a testimony to what a good writer PJ O'Rourke is. The book is about cars, a subject in which I have no interest. The major secondary focus so far seems to be drinking and taking drugs, two activities that have little appeal for me and don't seem like interesting subjects to nonparticipants. There's also a misogynist streak in the earliest of the essays included here. I will say that the misogyny seems to get milder over time, and that O'Rourke's more recent commentary on that early essay, in which he pokes fun at his younger self, manages to take a bit of the sting out of that early work. At any rate, the man is extraordinarily funny, in many cases laugh-out-loud funny, and I am enjoying the book against all reasonable expectations. "

" Still reading this one - but so far, it's one of those annoying (for my partner) books that make me laugh out loud in bed! Droll and dark, irreverent and very un-PC, this feels like a naughty indulgence, especially if you love cars. Recommended :) "

" O'Rourke is one of my favorite writers and humorists, so I expected a lot more from this book. In most of the new material, it feels like he's playing a caricature of himself, and in the old material, he hasn't finished sharpening his voice yet. Maybe he just loses something when he's not talking politics. I'm not sure what the root cause is, but this book is very skippable, even for a big P.J. O'Rourke fan. "

" one word = driving "

" This book was frustrating to read in the end. I laughed out loud a number of times in the early parts and near the end. In between it was tedious. If you are a car mechanic the middle might be more entertaining. "

" Laugh a second... "

" A lot of re-tread material from O'Rourke's magazine articles. Some stuff from the early 1970s. Only 5-10 pages of new material on the current crises. However, still had me giggling. "

" This book is stupid - often really, really stupid - but fun. "

" Not his best work, and some of it drags a bit, but even when he isn't on top form O'Rourke is well worth reading. "

" I've been listening to this audio book in the Barbie Dream Hearse as I trudge through another Seattle winter, braving snow, sleet, and the occasional agog photog. The only things I'm missing are road-head and a cigar. "

" Just plain fun. I don't agree with PJ on everything, but I love the way he expresses his opinion. "

" I originally picked up this book for my husband, but I read it when he was done. For a guy or a woman who is into cars, this is a humorous book. As I am not, it wasn't my favorite, but I rated per my husband's opinion. "

" Pretty good Peej. He gets kinda predictable nowadays, but he's the only libertarian humorist we've got. "

" Thought this was going to include more conversation around current automotive financial crises. Instead, this is more of a travel-log and car review from a big car-nut. "

" I didn't know that this was retread of older material with a smidgen of new. Since it is the first PJ O'Rourke book I've read, I'll give it a 3 as it was fun to read and try and pick up something that he has written and is only original material. "

" This book is hilarious. Great commentary on American society, too. "

" Just silliness, but amusing enough for me. "