"Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure" by Dave Gorman

Dave Gorman is somewhat weird. Not weird in any bad way but he seems to take trips that most people wouldn’t want to do. For example, he looked up all the other Dave Gormans around Europe. Then he sets himself up to write a book for a company yet can’t think of anything to write. That’s when he gets an email from someone in Australia, who says his website is a googlewhack. A googlewhack is when you search Google using two real words and get back one hit. You’re not allowed to put it in between inverted commas because it counts as cheating. Third, it cannot be a word list of any kind or a thesaurus, dictionary, or encyclopedia page. It appeared that his website was the only one with Francophile Namesakes on one of its pages. That’s when he decides to look for googlewhacks himself. He finds one, and talks to the owner of the site for awhile. On one of his trips he visits another Dave Gorman who is a friend of his. As he talks about googlewhacks to the other Dave—or as he preferred, David—the other has an idea. He bet that Dave couldn’t get a chain of 10 googlewhacks in a row. Dave had already 2 since his first googlewhack found the David’s googlewhack site. So that Dave had to find 2 googlewhacks. If one failed the other would probably work. Dave had until his 32nd Birthday to get 10 googlewhacks in a row. But how close to his deadline will Dave Gorman be?

I thought the book was good. It was very life-like without a lot of weird things that you couldn’t believe in. Dave is weird in the way he does some activities, but is not freaky weird. Also, there are no conversations that are unbelievable. I thought it was nice that all the people in the book had interesting personalities. Also a nice touch that he added was pictures of some of the people that had googlewhack sites or people at the book company. Also it there are a couple of funny parts in the book. Such as one of the people with a googlewhack on their site not understanding what a googlewhack was. This is amazing because he is an educated doctor that should understand something as simple as what a googlewhack is. There are sometimes when the things Dave does are things you simply wouldn’t expect, especially after he’s been drinking. For example: He wakes up with a tattoo of a driver’s license on his arm. Also he wakes up in an airport with a ticket to Washington without remembering a lot about how he got there.

The book is fun and enjoyable for anyone who can understand what the characters are saying. If you like this book you might also like “Word Freak” by Stefan Fatsis.

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