- Audio CD
- Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ); Abridged edition edition (Jun 17 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1409101495
- ISBN-13: 978-1409101499
- Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 1.4 x 13.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 141 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #991,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[Hammond's] 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." —Evening Standard
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More of the wry, honest and often hilarious chronicles of Richard Hammond - TV presenter, adventurer and general drawer of the Short Straw. Continuing where AS YOU DO left off, OR IS THAT JUST ME? focuses on just a few of the many hair-raising stunts, expeditions and encounters experienced by Richard Hammond over the last eventful year.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun read, but not as good as "On the Edge", Feb 7 2011
By Amanda Gordon - Published on Amazon.com
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I enjoyed this book. It's a humorous look at what a man thinks about turning 40. While not as riveting as Hammond's account of his jetcar crash ("My Story: On the Edge"), it's still a fun read. Some of the annecdotes are going to make you cringe a little in embarrassment for him, and his prose can be overly wordy and tedious at times, but he's an engaging writer and you know what you're reading comes from inside.For those of you not familiar with the BBC weekly car show "Top Gear," Richard Hammond is a one-time radio jockey and car fanatic who joined the program as a presenter in 2003. The show is a mix of car reviews, car challenges, road trips, and celebrity interviews and has become a worldwide phenomenon (except in the US). The three presenters are surprisingly famous, particularly after one of them (Hammond) almost died driving a jet-powered car in 2006. He wrote a book (mentioned above) about recovering from the resulting brain damage and the effect it had on him and his family.
Both books are worth reading. Hammond's also written a third book (chronologically between these two) about his experiences on "Top Gear." I'm looking forward to that one.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny but disjointed, April 9 2012
By Graves - Published on Amazon.com
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In "Or is it Just me" TV presenter and car enthusiast Richard Hammond writes about his trials and tribulations of approaching middle age and being, gasp, 40!He recounts various adventures made as the day approaches, and passes, as well as reminisces about past experiences such as bullying a boy in school. Hammond is funny with a nice turn of phrase and good imagery. Anyone who's seen him on TV will hear his voice rolling up from the pages and you will chuckle out loud as some things- such as his first trip to Hawaii needing not shorts and sun screen but the arctic weather gear he took to the North Pole as he visits a mountain top observatory that is 13,000 feet up and looks more like north Wales than a tropical paradise.
The book does ramble a bit. Not quit a stream of consciousness but nearly so and this is what stops it from being a 5 star for me. The anecdotes themselves are funny but there is little sense of them being joined together and a great deal of a feeling of drifting on the tide of his memories as he vaguely and vainly tries to hold on to not-being-middle-aged.
The other problem I have with this is, oddly, Hammond's writing style itself. He is a professional journalist. Finding just the right words in the right order is his life. And "Or is It Just Me" is plagued by run on sentences. try reading 'just this bit' out loud to someone and you realize how bad it is. Page after page where there are only 3-4 sentences, full stop, per page. This is wearisome to read and added to the sense of the narrative wandering over the page.
In the end this is a funny book. If you like Hammond you will enjoy it. You will however feel just a little disappointed that the writing style couldn't have been tighter.
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A bit too much TMI in some places, or is that just me?, Dec 10 2011
By SpAcEbRaIn - Published on Amazon.com
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Having enjoyed other books by Mr. Hammond as well as being quite the fan of Top Gear, I added this book to my collection. The book is light-hearted and funny tale of a soon-to-be-middle-aged man in crisis and is well in contrast from "On the Edge". Which is certainly a good thing--I think one tragedy is enough to handle; although I do feel there should be a follow up to that book.The first few chapters tend to contrast from the remaining. That is, Mr. Hammond starts trending a theme of "or is that just me" and then suddenly strays on the topics, disrupting the cohesiveness he established. I do not want to give much away regarding his stories, so I will remain vague in this area. However just note that should I ever come to meet him in person I am not sure I could look him straight in the eye (or at least with a straight face) given some intimate details he has shared regarding some, uhh, intimate places.
If you are looking for an in-depth review of issues plaguing society and an approach to their resolution that does not result in the extinction of at least 3 animal species this is not the read for you. However if you are looking for gentle humor and something light to read by all means give this a go.
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