A2: Book Review

Jean Jennings, editor of Ann Arbor-based Automobile Magazine, reviews P.J. O’Rourke’s collection of essays, “Driving Like Crazy”: “The infamous and ill-fated Baja road- trip story, now titled ‘A Test of Man and Machines That We Flunked,’ has an introduction that’s longer than the entire original crazy story. I was in the car with O’Rourke – both of us puffing away on Marlboros and wondering aloud how everyone else could stay awake without smoking – when we crested a hill and found tech editor Csaba Csere standing, dazed, in the middle of the road next to the Dodge 600, steam pouring from the radiator. ‘I never ducked,’ he said. ‘I never ducked,’ he repeated. He’d hit a cow, which did a horn stand off the roof and catapulted off into the pitch-black night. Which was only the beginning of a tale with at least ten variations.” [Source]