《driving like crazy 英文原版》是2010年Perseus出版社出版的圖書，作者是P J O'Rourke。
基本介紹
- 中文名：driving like crazy 英文原版
- 作者：P J O'Rourke
- 出版社：Perseus出版社
- ISBN：9780802144799
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
"New York Times best-selling author and America's preeminentpolitical satirist, P.J. O'Rourke also has another side to him - agear-loose gearhead, automotive devotee, and terrifying driver. Sonand grandson of car dealers in Ohio, P.J.'s family has been in themotor vehicle business since before there were motors in vehicles.And P.J. has been writing about cars - for Car and Driver,Automobile, Esquire, Forbes, and other publications - for whatseems like almost as long. In this newly collected anthology ofspiels-on-wheels, O'Rourke celebrates cars and berates car haters,and chronicles America's relationship with automobiles from lovefor a powerful chariot of freedom to tolerance of an oversizedhousehold appliance with an extra-long extension cord." "DrivingLike Crazy takes the reader on a risible and high-speed tour of theworld's bad roads, from places that you wouldn't want to be toplaces you wouldn't want to go. There's P.J.'s 1977 southern tourfrom the panhandle of Florida to the Oakie camps of California in a1956 Buick that broke down every day, allowing the author to meetall the people in America who have missing teeth, hookworm, and usea .38 pistol as a bookmark in their bibles. There's theseven-hundred-mile weekend jaunt through Indiana via aHarley-Davidson in the company of a bunch of other old, drunk guyswho hadn't been on motorcycles since they almost killed themselvesin college. There's the off-road trip down Mexico's Baja peninsula,following the course of the famed Baja 1000 in automobilesspecifically selected because they had absolutely no capacity to gooff-road. And let us not forget the time that P.J. and some friendsdrove from Islamabad toCalcutta for no good reason only weeks afterboth countries had declared themselves to be nuclear powers."Driving Like Crazy brings together thirty-some years ofjournalistic cornering on two wheels, none of which has beenreprinted before. Or almost none of which. P.J. did include hisclassic "How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-WangSqueezed and Not Spill Your Drink." And he's written an appendix tothat piece of sage advices for those who, like himself, are thirtyyears older now: "How to Do Ditto While the Drugs Are MostlyLipitor."
作者簡介
P. J. O’Rourke is the author of twelve books, including Parliament of Whores and Give War a Chance, both of which were #1 New York Times best sellers. His most recent book is the best seller On the Wealth of Nations.
