In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave [VINTAGE 2000] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Language: English
Published by Perigee / Berkley Publishing Group, New York, 2000
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As new condition white boards, black spine, and silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Authors' Dedication; Introduction (Or Foreword? Or Reverse?); Preface and The Rant and Rave Primer. "I like them so much that I am going out to buy a broken car just so I can call them." - Gene Shalit. "I love Cah Tahk,' my husband loves 'Cah Tahk,' and even my cah loves 'Cah Tahk.' It's the only funny thing about traffic in Los Angeles." - Jane Curtin. "Even my car listens to Car Talk." - Robert Klein. "A purely spontaneous explosion of your thoughts upon the world. Unplanned. Unexpected." - Tom Magliozzi, aka Click - or is it Clack? Only their hairdresser, Mr. Gigi, knows for sure.Anyway, Tom is the one with the beard. Whether you call it a tirade, an outburst, an eruption, venting, or simply a cathartic process by which humans relieve themselves of anger and frustration, no one does it better than those outrageous - and frequently outraged - brothers, the Car Talk guys. Every weekend the hosts of "National Public Radio's most popular non-news show" (The New York Times) strike a chord with millions of listeners through their relentlessly irreverent, hilariously on-target rantings on just about everything but cars. And now you too can partake of the potent healing effects of the Rant and Rave with this first-ever collection. From Hollywood, Microsoft, and Starbucks to the AARP, the Educational Testing Service, and even the founding fathers of this great nation, nothing and no one is sacred as they come into the sights of the relentless Tappet Brothers. Unexpurgated by the thought process, Tom and Ray offer profundities on Reverse Reincarnation and the plight of mankind, abstract cooking, and blatant ergonomic blunders to mention just a few of the more mundane subjects they explore with the particular combination of wit and naivete that is their hallmark. But it's not all complaining. Between these covers you'll find musings, theories, observations, parables, and just plain old anecdotes about people who've had the bad luck to be involved in the strange lives of the Magliozzis. As powerful and unpredictable as an earthquake; as soothing as a fresh diaper. And as Tom and Ray promise, the irresistibly restorative experience "will cause an incredible lightness of being - to coin a phrase. You'll rant. You'll rave. Ahhhh!" - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave [VINTAGE 2000] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Magliozzi, Tom; Magliozzi, Ray
- Publisher
- Perigee / Berkley Publishing Group, New York
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Strauss, Matthew (cover art)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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