Monday, August 23, 2010

104:83 As You Do by Richard Hammond

Subtitled Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice President of Botswana. This is sort of his chronicle of some of his adventures one year. Told from his perspective we get a lot of inside looks at what happens behind the cameras during his Artic Race and African Safari on Top Gear as well as his documentary with Evel Kneival. He also tells the tale of the floods that hit near his house that year.

What you get is pretty typical Richard Hammond without much in the way of surprises but more of the backstory of things you've seen. The flood story was touching tho and gave a bit more insight to the man behind the television presenter. The fact that he ran home 19mi in order to be there when his daughter woke up on her birthday and then went through a lot to help rescue his friend from his flooded house. Those show his true character.

Page count: 257p/25,608p ytd

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