The Green Red Green: Made Almost Entirely from Recycled Material

Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Doubleday Canada, 2012. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Red Green was recycling material long before the green revolution got underway. Look at the automobiles he's driven over the years. Many of those were assembled using the same basic method employed for The Green Red Green by welding together the surviving bits of some old wrecks. In this case, we're talking about the three Red Green books published long ago by other, inferior publishers: Duct Tape Is Not Enough, a collection of newspaper columns by Red Green's alter-ego Steve Smith on surviving middle age; Red Green Talks Cars; and Red's literary debut The Red Green Book, a souvenir of the TV show. The selection for his best-of pretty much made itself. Out went the Steve Smith columns with once-topical references; out went the material from The Red Green Book that was in the voices of the other characters (he's been carrying those bums for too long) and out went very little from the perennially hilarious Cars. The resulting mass of pieces have been well-shaken into a new mix; re-edited to new levels of sharpness and hilarity, and updated so that, for example, jokes about hairstyles now feature Russell Brand and not Rod Stewart. And the perfectly competent illustrations from the previous books have been replaced by much better, incompetent ones by the author, so that the look of this book very much resembles How to Do Everything. Handyman Projects Include Turning Your Car Into A Tank, A Fire Engine Or A Jet-Powered Vehicle, And Used For Leftover Car Engines Or Hoods. And Those Lucky Enough To Ride With You Can Benefit From Advice On How To Be A Good Passenger (Or How To Hitchhike). Meanwhile, The Car Buffs Tackle The Question, "What Was The Best Car Ever Made?" Finally -- Men Talk About What Moves Them.