If You’d Just Let Me Finish (World According to Clarkson 7) Kindle Edition

I'm a huge fan of what Top Gear UK used to be. Clarkson, May, Hammond, and cars. This book is none of those things. It's literally a bunch of newspaper articles that have been cut and pasted chronologically into a book. Starting in 2015 and moving on from there, it talks about a huge range of topics, almost none of which involve cars, nor humour. Jeremy is one of the funniest and most creative presenters I've ever seen, but this is quite a boring read. I think I laughed twice. Stick to writing about cars, Clarkson, that's what you're brilliant at, and it's what we want.

Most people know Jeremy Clarkson from the hit TV series Top Gear and more recently Amazons own The Grand Tour, however a lot of people don't realize that Clarkson is really a journalist. As such he has a weekly column in various UK newspapers including the Sunday Times. This book is his collection of articles that he wrote for the Sunday Times newspaper, neatly packaged and presented to you book format.Over the years, Clarkson has published numerous books under the sub-heading of The World According to Clarkson and If you'd just let me finish is his latest musings on life and the seventh book in the series.Extremely well written, hilarious and a book that you can easily pick up, read a chapter (one chapter is basically one column written Sunday Times) as they are short when you have a spare 5 minutes and put down again. Most, if not all chapters, are basically written the same way. First off Clarkson introduces you to the topic of the chapter in a humerous and wildly un-PC fashion before explaining his logic further and sometimes ending up with a salient point to finish.Since Clarkson is from the UK, most of the people mentioned in the book are UK celebrities and politicians however this won't detract you from a thoroughly good book.

Are things so bad that even Jeremy Clarkson can't make them funny? Apparently so. Clarkson has always used hyperbole and his created persona to troll the universe for laughs. But his anger has gotten the better of him on this one. He can still write, but the joke has turned sour. More times than not, he comes across as a real, live troll.

I bought this book as an easy entertaining read by one of my favorite on screen personalities but his humor did not translate well into this. The most important thing to know before you buy this is there is almost no mention of cars throughout the entire book. If it had even mentioned any car realated stories i would have given it more stars but the majority of the articles are about random political topics and things of little meaning. If you want a book about his car career or top gear in general i would pick on that bombshell over this.

Laughed and chuckled almost through the whole book. Even a couple posts where you actually get to feel like you know the man personally when he shares his personal thoughts and takes while being serious. Look forward to his book.

This, like most of Mr. Clarkson's titles, is a collection of previously printed newspaper columns. They can seem dated, and if you are not a Britt, you may miss the whole point of a very poignant rant. Mr. Clarkson is at his best when cracking wise about this politician or that, so simply substitute any familiar political name and the effect will translate wonderfully.

As a warning, this book does not cover any new topics. This is a combination of editorials that were written from 2016 on. That said it is very entertaining to hear his comments on a wide variety of topics. Think of it as the older top gear news segments with less cars.

This is a great book! My husband and I both read it and loved it!

The book consists of a series of previously published newspaper articles which many of us may have read previously. However, he's a Yorkshireman like myself so you can't blame him for doubling his money unless you have read most of them before. All the usual entertaining stuff but less good than in his earlier days.However, he should keep his opinion on wine to himself. As a result of reading this effort I became convinced I had somehow missed out on Rose wine over my 80 years so splashed out £75 on his 'amazing' Leoube Rose' which in his opinion betters all wine. Tonight we sampled it's best effort at £25 and it was, in our opinion, awful. Thin and acidic was the general view. Maybe this was another of his twisted jokes? As a fellow Yorkshireman I would prefer Fred Trueman's opinion- "Wine! Beers a bloody site better" but limited to Rose.Altogether rather expensive for a few giggles and indigestion.Edited as I spelt Leoube incorrectly and forgot to say that it was little surprise that his favourite wine would have been better served to his car battery.

I absolutely love these books. There, I've said it! I began reading these collections of Jeremy Clarkson's newspaper column articles years ago and I've always reveled in their outrageous humour; some are better than others but even the less-good snippets are entertaining.But what has changed is that, over the years, society seems to have decided that there is a cadre of people who we are all obliged to agree are terrible human beings and whom we must revile and shun. People like Katy Hopkins and Piers Morgan. And now Jeremy Clarkson has joined those ranks. So publicly admitting that you actually like and enjoy anything written, presented or produced by Mr Clarkson is tantamount to admitting that you're a terrible person with no social conscience. And one other effect of our social media dominated world is that it is almost impossible not to follow the trend and still be allowed to participate in society.The result is that, when I read these short articles, I feel as though I'm doing something illicit. If it was a paper book that I was reading, I'd put it into a wallpaper cover (as we used to do at school) so that no one would know that I was reading it. In fact, I might just slip it into a cover from 'Fifty Shades of Nonsense' or 'Abuse for Perverts' because that would be more socially acceptable.One reason for my guilt is that I've always felt on the same wavelength as Mr Clarkson. I agree with many of his views (his real views that is, not the hyperbole that he actually writes) and I too take occasional pleasure in expressing something that I don't really believe in a manner designed to get a reaction. Exposing some nonsense by using wildly over the top similies or suggestion is glorious and I'm always staggered that some folk think that every word typed must be taken literally. I'm afraid that I have to conclude that, if this writing means that Jeremy Clarkson is a bad person, then I must be guilty too.I don't read Mr Clarkson's newspaper articles so I enjoy these collated books. Each short article is like a mini-story in itself; bite sized nuggets of surreal humour within which there is, often, a very real issue. This particular collection is from his 2016 and 2017 writings and so has some added interest when viewed from a 2019 perspective. Is this one of his better collections? Yes, I think so. More to the point is 'did I enjoy it'? Yes, immensely!

I've read all his books and this is the worst. Just not funny. Old man rants are fine but I expect more.Badly off the boil. Read everything else first. They're all better than this.Very disappointing.

You should probably add this to your bucket list, since it is highly informative - I say this with a modicum of hesitation lest you become agitated or angry and throw bucket loads of ordure - incidentally, the term ordure is taken straight from hit nibs text, so it just goes to show that we are dealing with a man of deep intellect. Oh please, stop stamping your feet and spitting on the floor. The thing is I may just have uncovered something important, since nepotism is mentioned. Over the years I have extended sympathy, buying copies of his other works and one of those fire TV stick's, which have clearly made him worth a couple of bob.Well what can I say, I'm not a mean man The point is, and I come back to nepotism, it now appears that he has a ghost writer! His daughter, Emily, who may well be the past font of all wisdom and knowledge. This being possible, I've just contacted all the London clearing banks, instructing them not to make any further payments on any books written by journalists, just in case. Meantime, the chances of a knighthood seem unlikely since ER II is heartily sick of being called Mrs Queen by her staff. Anyway, if you feel the need for some education - I use the term with more care these days - go and buy Emily's book. While you wait for the Amazon van man to arrive, do enjoy Mr Clarkson's book it's worth buying (with your money, of course. Mine's on Emily). You wait until the next dit of his comes out in the Telegraph. Let's see how he addressed this bombshell!

About 95% as good as his other books. Definitely worth buying, if you enjoyed the others.In addition to the humour, his political-slanted columns from 2016, with their pro-Remain views and forecasts of doom and gloom, make an interesting read 3 1/2 years on. The reader can judge the accuracy of the forecasts for themselves :)Well worth a read!