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As You Do
- Adventures With Evel, Oliver, and The Vice-President Of Botswana
- Narrated by: Richard Hammond
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Summary
Moving quickly on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him he ranges widely over his life and times: a visit to Glastonbury with James May reminds of him of his early years of playing in a band and how and why he never quite made it as a rock star; the stunts and other perils that come his way like the TopGear North Pole race (why is it Richard who is out in the howling elements in a dog sled whilst the others are in the heated cab of an all-terrain vehicle?), Africa where he falls in love with and repatriates a stray car, and the US (once to be chased by Rednecks in middle America, the other in pursuit of his mad hero Evel Knievel); his passion for cars, what he owns and why and although he loves his wife why it is a toss-up whether he says hello to the wife or the cars first. Balancing home and family with a crazy, peripatetic working life (or not, sometimes), the hamster is well and truly back on the wheel.
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- StoremanUK
- 21-02-09
Dissapointing
I downloaded this as soon as it appeared and nowhere did the description mention how heavily edited this was. Agreed that it doesn't say unabridged but it would have been fair to say that a lot had been taken out. Whole chapters are missing from this version - not worth the money.
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- Anabella
- 20-02-09
Good But Way Too Abridged - No Evel, No USA ?
This was a fun listen, Richard Hammond reads naturally and it's very 'boy's own adventure' in style. The book focuses on specific adventures - 3 of them and more than half of it is devoted to the polar adventure. The Botswana trip is dealt with quite quickly and then we have the floods in Gloucestershire. It's one thing to abridge a book for audio but this book is called As You Do - Adventures with Evel, Oliver & The President of Botswana. The USA trip and Evel Knievel do not feature at all and the Botswana trip with Oliver etc gets less time than the floods.
I really was dissapointed that so much was missing because what there is, is very good. Abriding to remove sections of a book that are in the title is ridiculous though. It's also worth noting that this book may not be suitable for younger listeners as there is some bad language.
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- Colin
- 02-03-15
'Top Gear' with the picture off
There can be little doubt that 'Top Gear' is one of the most popular TV shows of our time, and a key feature of the show, and big cause of it's popularity, are the challenges our three heroes embark upon, each one bigger and more outrageous than the last.
The downside to this popularity is that there can't be too many people who haven't seen the drive through Mozambique, the Dog Sled Race, the trip to India etc, especially nowadays when the 'Dave' channel seems to show back-to-back 'Top Gear' pretty much every day.
And there's the rub with this book, in which Richard Hammond tells his side of the challenges. Problem is, he already did this on the original shows, and so much of this book is like having 'Top Gear' playing with the picture off.
For die-hard fans only...
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- H
- 13-12-20
hilariously quirky
It was very funny and different to other boring adventure stories it was good
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-05-23
Brilliant book
Loved every minute of it. Would
Highly recommend x x x x x x x
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- Ryan Summerhayes
- 24-11-22
Great book
Excellent listening too while running and walking and working and running yep yep yep yep
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- #earlyeditor🤓📚
- 01-07-22
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Short stories and adventures of Richard makes and entertaining listen. Interesting to hear more of the back story of Oliver. 😋
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- Roán R.
- 12-10-21
absolutely amazing
I absolutely loved it and I love the way richard always narrates his books. my most memorable moment in this book was when he actually got Oliver started again. it was ridiculous. Richard hammond should really write another book about his times in the grand tour.
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- Catherine
- 12-11-20
Absolutely hilarious!
absolutely hilarious!
I loved every bit and it was very interesting listening to behind the scenes from his point of view of brilliant Top Gear adventures.
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- keith
- 16-03-20
Enjoyed it.
enjoyed the book. richard narrated it well. And the music st the mood for the next chapter.
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