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“I had trouble connecting with this book. It describes Grand Prix and rally racing of the 1930s – the ‘Golden Age of Auto Racing,’ this era is called. Racing, especially then, is, by nature, visceral and sensory, and I felt disconnected from it. The central theme is that Hitler and the Nazis used…”
“A disappointing book. It’s about making cars. You might think, ‘Well, yeah, this is about Toyota, right?’ And it is, so I should of known it was about making cars, but it’s really about making cars, and how many people actually make cars? Clearly, most people are going to read this with an eye…”
“This is a ‘meditation book.’ It takes a subject – cars, in this case – and offers a series of essay about them. There’s not much rhyme, reason, or thematic flow to it. It’s just a collection of writings. I felt like it meandered quite a bit – I couldn’t figure out what the author was getting at….”
