Petrolicious - November 10, 2015

7 BOOKS WE FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS WEEK

Author Rob Siegel should be well-known to BMW enthusiasts through his long-running monthly column in Roundel, the official magazine of the BMW Car Club of America, and more recently, a weekly online column in Roundel Online. While the word "hack" traditionally means, "to cut irregularly or inexpertly," other extensions of the word-hack job, hack writer, and so on-often carry connotations of sub-par quality or amateurishness. However, when it comes to the title the writer has given to himself, it's a bit of a misnomer.

The subtitle of the book states that this is, "a memoir with actual useful stuff". While there is a prodigious amount of "actual useful stuff", it is through the author's attempts to keep his expanding menagerie of vehicles in operational order, find more garage space, and anecdotal stories that keep you turning the pages. Most importantly, the often humorously presented do-it-yourself advice from Siegel delivers insight into what it means to be a modern enthusiast.

Review from and courtesy of Petrolicious - November 10, 2015

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