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| I Know You Got Soul | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeremy Clarkson
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 5109
Media: Paperback
Edition: New title
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0141022922
EAN: 9780141022925
ASIN: 0141022922
Publication Date: May 25, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: PAPERBACK. Contents clean and tight, covers rubbed bumped and lightly creased. Clean and tight copy with some reading wear. Daily despatch by Royal Mail.
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 Another Clarkson Giggle October 24, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Once again if you enjoy Clarkson and his style you will enjoy this book. I enjoy nice cars and motorbikes but I would say my machinery knowledge is very, very limited. But still Clarkson hit the right note with me and I found he realy brought them to life for me, whether it was a U-boat or an airship. Throughly enjoyable read.
 men,machines,clarkson October 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are two types of writers,in my view:serious,and tongue in cheek.Jeremy Clarkson belongs to neither category,he is an unreconstructed throwback someone who speaks their mind.
When he gets his mind into something he likes ,or dislikes,he is an excellent writer,and communicates in a funny yet informative manner.People who criticize him just don't get it.He can convey more information on a subject he likes,in one volume than others can in perhaps three books.His message is not always P.C. nor does it matter,and his politcal ideas are his own,but deep down plenty of his readers will be nodding their collective heads in agreement,that he is a bit of an icon.(albeit a seventies one.).
He should ,to my mind bring out a book/dvd on the great engineers of 19th century,like Brunnell etc.
 Back in the crate June 29, 2007
6 out of 14 found this review helpful
I picked this book up last summer from one of those crates that people leave out together with an honesty box (this one was by the side of a canal) for your donations. Never having seen Clarkson on television, I had only a vague idea of who he was, but I thought this book might be interesting. I suppose there are one or two points that stick in the mind (such as his comment that the wingspan of a jumbo jet is longer than the first manned flight), but overall, reading this is more like listening to an opinionated rant from a drunk in a pub. Perhaps that's the effect that he was trying to attain, but the received value of the opinions here depends entirely on what you think of the character or qualifications of the person making them.
Based on what I've read, they don't seem to have any value at all. For example, here is Clarkson on the Millenium Falcon: "In a fight between the Enterprise, Stingray, Thunderbird 2 and the Millenium Falcon, the Falcon would reign supreme. It just would. The end." I guess this is supposed to look funny in a childish sort of way (it comes immediately after a similar assertion about who would win if Superman, James Bond and The Terminator had a fight), but I found it hard to care about what he thought "would happen", and this indifference remained when he was talking about non-fictitious machines - e.g. "Possibly, just possibly, the Spitfire is the greatest machine ever made". Is it really? What does this mean? So what?
Printed in a large typeface to fill up the space, the book includes an index (goodness knows why) and a blurb on the back that describes how Clarkson has "discovered" not only who would win in the fight mentioned above, but also "how Jeanne-Claude Van Damme might get eaten by a lion". This last refers to a single sentence on p45: "Maybe Jeanne-Claude Van Damme could be eaten by a lion at some point." Well, gosh. Or maybe he wouldn't. What do you think? Do you really care?
Finally, the book includes the same boilerplate comment ("Extremely funny" - Daily Telegraph) on its cover which appears on all his other books, thus rendering it misleading, at least. Unless they meant that he was extremely funny. But I can't see how that could be. Just my opinion, of course.
If you like Clarkson... April 30, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
...you'll probably like this.
It's not brilliant, but then again nor is Clarkson. The research is adequate, but if you like him it's not because of how thorough his research is, but because his opinions often coincide with your own and he has a healthy disrespect for stuffed shirts, windbags and the politically correct absurdities of the age in which we live.
As I suspect is the case with many men, my wife (who likes him despite being American) insists I am Jeremy's long lost twin. As such, I read it cover to cover in 2 or 3 days, during the course of which I was entertained, discovered a few interesting facts and decided that if I ever win the pools I will buy a Riva Aquarama.
I long for something that is a bit more of a meal from Clarkson, as I think he can be much more than he seems content to be. This is a snack, but an enjoyable snack nonetheless, and I'll revisit bits of it from time to time. As I believe another reviewer has said, perfect for the bedside table, the train to work or a long haul flight.
Funny in Parts October 13, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Being a Top Gear fan, I know what to expect from Clarkson. A very opinionated view of the world, where he is always right. This book is a chance for him to basically go through a few of his "favourite things". Once you've got your head around the fact that some of the chapters contain more passion from the writer than others, it's an easy book to race through. He produces trivia regarding battleships and zepellins that would not look out of place on QI, and the sections about cars are clearly written from the heart - (Top Gear obsessives will enjoy his boyish anticipation of receiving his Ford GT40, knowing as we do what a nightmare he's had with it since).
Sadly the bubble is burst early on by JC's off the cuff remark that he and a friend wrote down a bunch of stuff to write articles about, and then he wrote them. You finish the book reading about the Spitfire, a symbol of British defiance, yet when you close the book and put it back on the shelf you'll think "what was the point of all that?"
I found it good bedtime reading - a chapter a night fodder - and I'd certainly buy other books by Clarkson.
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