Driving Like Crazy, P. J. ORourke
Driving Like Crazy, P. J. ORourke
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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

Author: P. J. O'Rourke

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/01/2009

Synopsis

Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P. J. O’Rourke’s love for them, while chronicling the golden age of the automobile in America. O’Rourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world’s most scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks, from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special four-door Buick sedan to a 1983 thousand-mile effort across Mexico in the Baja 1000 to a trek through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back of a Soviet army surplus six-wheel-drive truck. For longtime fans of the celebrated humorist, the collection features a host of O’Rourke’s classic pieces on driving, including “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink,” about the potential misdeeds one might perform in the front (and back) seat of an automobile; “The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club,” which chronicles a seven-hundred-mile weekend trip through Michigan and Indiana that O’Rourke took on a Harley Davidson alongside Car & Driver publisher David E. Davis, Jr.; his brilliant and funny piece from Rolling Stone on NASCAR and its peculiar culture, recorded during an alcohol-fueled weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977; and an hilarious account of a trek from Islamabad to Calcutta in Land Rover’s new Discovery Trek.

About P. J. O'Rourke

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on September 17, 2022

Just finished listening to this audiobook in (where else?) the car. Immensely entertaining, belly laugh evoking book (not a great look while you’re driving alone in your car), with great and usually hysterical accounts of cross country driving adventures (much of it off road, in places like Baja Cal......more

Goodreads review by Kelley on August 11, 2010

I love O'Rourke. It is just that simple. While he is best known for his political writing he has covered a multitude of topics over the years. True O'Rourke fans know he has written for "Car and Driver" over the years and that he loves muscle cars. "Driving Like Crazy" is a collection of automotive......more

Goodreads review by William on April 27, 2010

I've been, and remain a huge fan of P. J. O'Rourke's. I've always liked his PG-13 Gonzo style of writing--a tamer version of Hunter Thompson. Witt, & Cynicism are the accounting firm of O'Rourke's mind, and they are well used here. Part travel book, part car book, with digressions into politics/econ......more

Goodreads review by Brooks on June 11, 2009

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.......more

Goodreads review by Max on August 21, 2023

I've enjoyed PJ O'Rourke as a panelist on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and when part of my library's summer reading challenge was reading a book by a comedian I figured I'd give his writing a go. After all, I revisited Dave Barry a few months ago and had a great time with him. But this book just never qu......more

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