James May, May on Motors

A good read, i took this book on holiday and i read it twice, infact i'm doing something i don't normally do, Mr May 10/10, sub zero. Bring on the next book.

This is a must-read for anyone interested in engineering. It uses humour to bring the facts to life and it doesn't feel as though you're learning even though you are. The links are tenuous and some of the ideas are idiosyncratic but it wouldn't be James May's if it wasn't.

I love this book and I love James May. Universally thought of as 'the other one on Top Gear,' May comes across as a genuinely nice guy, as a guy you would buy a drink in the pub in this book.

Basically, in this book James May writes his general thoughts and tells us about his cars, himself and why he loves being British in a collection of his newspaper columns.

Before reading this book I only liked James May because he disagrees with the other two a lot. But after reading this book you see him as the nice, friendly, harmless, kind of crazy eccentric, who loves driving his old Bentley T2 and his old Jaguar XJs.

James May is essentially the human incarnation of pure, unadulturated, un-culturally-diversified Britishness and unusually, he is not an old man, he is barely middle aged!

I think anyone will enjoy reading this book and enjoy reading the thoughts of this really cool guy (cool in a Clint Eastwood 'Dirty Harry' way).

Also, people from foreign countries like the USA should be encouraged to read this because it will refresh the English gentleman stereotype, because I don't know if Jeeves and Wooster is available on USA TV.