Sunday, May 31, 2009

New From P.J. O'Rourque

I first encountered the incomparable satirist P.J. O'Rourque in the pages of Car & Driver, later in his book Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut.

His new book is called Driving Like Crazy. Edward Niedermeyer at The Truth About Cars reviews:

"His diatribes may do nothing to bring back the days of rumbling V8s, perpetual drunkenness and small-town girls begging to be whisked away by men on motorcycles, but his vivid recollections bring them to life in the reader’s imagination."

O'Rorque reminds me of no one so much as Hunter S. Thompson just on lighter drugs.