Santa Barbara Independent Reviews The Speed Handbook

"It hardly began with Maverick and Goose; humanity and its fictional representatives have been feeling the need for speed for quite some time now. We know speed thrills, but we don't quite grasp why," writes Colin Marshall in the Santa Barbara Independent. Fortunately, Enda Duffy, Professor of English at UCSB has written The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism, which "argues that, with the invention of the mass-produced automobile and the mapping of the globe, the increasingly widespread ability to cross impossible numbers of miles per hour made speed an exciting new frontier, forever altering our relationship to pace, distance, slowness, and consumption." Marshall adds that the book is "a must-read for any speed demon."