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Originally Posted by knowlesy
I've just read The Piranha club and, I have to say, it was awful. I'm sure it's a great book, but it has far too many commas in it and is practically unreadable!
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I don't think it's even that great a book. Apart from the one chapter about the Benetton/Schumacher deal, there's very little in there that you won't find in other books on F1; Collings garbles a lot of the history and (as I've said somewhere else) you get the impression of a kid jumping up and down outside the windows of the motorhomes trying to work out what's going on inside!
I wasn't impressed by his Jordan and JYS biographies either; his writing style is too jittery and sensationalist to appeal to me. The JYS book was particularly disappointing, Collings has no real feel for history. Unsurprisingly, both of them seem to have been remaindered pretty quickly!