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In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.6
EAN: 9780399526008
ISBN: 0399526005
Label: Perigee Trade
Manufacturer: Perigee Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 01, 2000
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Studio: Perigee Trade
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Editorial Review:
Every weekend they strike a chord with millions of listeners through their relentlessly irreverent, hilariously on-target rantings-on just about everything but cars. Fortunately, Click and Clack's rants and ramblings are available on weekdays too-in this popular hardcover collection. Packed with musings, theories, observations, parables and anecdotes, In Our Humble Opinion is guaranteed to draw raves.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Satisfied My Curiosity, but Not Much Else
I guess you either love these guys or you hate them. My wife finds them incredibly annoying when she hears them on the radio.
Myself, I love them. Their accents are not off-putting to me, and I love how they laugh together.
What I've learned over time, though, is that the 'straight' answers they provide are actually pretty authoritative. They actually know what they're talking about, based not only on their extensive formal education but also based on their hands-on work ... Read More
Rating:  - Very Dissapointing Book By Two Very Funny Guys.
I am a big fan of Car Talk with Tom & Ray Magliozzi. There show is generally quite witty. Im sorry to say that I cant say the same for their book. The stories of each of their lives was interesting with some quirky comments which made me smirk. I expected that for the rest of the book but war wront. their ranting and raving just wasnt interesting. They state the obvious, have nothing to back what they say up and the ranting and raving isnt in the least amusing. It was a chore to get through ... Read More
Rating:  - Worth a look for Car Talk fans
I'm not sure if I can give a general recommendation for this book. However, if you are a fan of Car Talk, you can get to know Tom a bit more (and Ray a tiny bit more). While not the greatest piece of comedic literature, it is a very short book (many pages are blank or half-blank ) and does not require a huge investment of your time. It seems that 75-80% of the text is written by Tom with Ray filling in the rest. It is virtually all rants-there are precious few raves. Tom is definitely the more agitated ... Read More
Rating: - Likable Characters
My advice is to avoid reading this book all at once. I think I would have appreciated the Magliozzi humor more had I read it a little at a time. I enjoyed the parts about Tom's and Ray's own lives best. Knowing more about them made them even more likable. Additionally, Tom's section on education was insightful and interesting. However, the essays in the Rant section all started to blend together in my mind after a while. Potential readers should also note that this book is not all about cars, which readers ... Read More
Rating:  - "In a land of idiots,a moron is a genius."
Not being a car buff,I had never heard of these two guys or their show Car Talk.The notes on the back of the book convinced me it might be a good read. I was very pleasantly surprised and thuroughly enjoyed the book from beginning to end.
\ Particularly, their musings on the education system hit the nail on the head with me.I have been singing the same song for many,many years.Although there is a lot of humor in this book,there is a lot of deep down common sense in this book.Like the authors ,I had ... Read More
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