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| As You Do: Adventures With Evel, Oliver, and The Vice-President Of Botswana: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice-President of Botswana | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard Hammond
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Category: Book
List Price: £18.99
Buy New: £10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 295
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0297855204
EAN: 9780297855200
ASIN: 0297855204
Publication Date: September 18, 2008
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 Why am I annoyed? October 30, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having read and enjoyed Mr. Hammond's previous book,'On The Edge', and being a big Top Gear fan I jumped at this second volume of autobiographical tales.
And for the Top Gear fan there is much here to digest, how things are done to make the show as great as it is, behind the scenes anecdotes and what-happened-when-the-camera-went-off revelations abound. A large section is given over to their Polar adventure.
Also covered are Mr. Hammonds actions in the floods of 2007 and his meeting child-hood hero Evel Kinevel, all relayed in readable, funny stories that will make you smile.
But...
Having been so deeply moved by the sections of the first book written by Mrs. Hammond I jusy kept getting annoyed every time Hammond did something dangerous or silly for the sake of a TV show.
Now this is all just my humble opinion and Mr. Hammond is, ofcourse, free to live his life - but I just kept thinking that for a man who was so lucky to get a second chance he seems to have not learned from it or been changed by it.
Now maybe thats a good thing, maybe not... but thats why I got annoyed by it and thats why 3 stars.
Its a very entertaining read and fans of the show will not be disappointed.
 Hammond versus Clarkson October 14, 2008
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
Read the piece below in the Evening Standard last night and it totally sums up what's great about Hammond and what's so annoying about Clarkson...
On Hammond: ...'there is a world of difference. Hammond may be doing some macho things....but his prose reveals him as a thoughtful, decent, generous-hearted man. He is capable of humility and his jokes are funny. As You Do is an unpretentious, well-built vehicle with pleasantly surprising extras and more speed and manoeuvrability than you would have thought.'
On Clarkson: ...'if Hammond's mind is open, Clarkson's is very firmly closed. The main thing to know is ...he doesn't know about anything except cars...the man knows very, very little, but is sustained by such self-belief that he expects us to applaud him. He wouldn't even be a car: he'd be the kind of noisy moped ridden by a 16-year-old berk outside your window at 2 am. Now imagine that that berk is being paid a small fortune every week to do so by the Sunday Times, and then gets even more money from the public at later date. Aren't there laws against this kind of thing?'
This book is fantastic ride - he does more in a year than I'll ever do in a lifetime! A perfect Christmas gift!
The cameramen are the real stars! September 21, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Uneven but fascinating to get to know the characters behind the scenes and to find out about the real close relationships with the people you never normally hear about. Very interesting about the North Pole and Botswana but peters out later and loses momentum. For true Top Gear fans only.
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