Synopses & Reviews
If someone called you a 'Googlewhack' what would you do? Would you end up playing table tennis with a nine year old boy in Boston? Would you find yourself in Los Angeles wrangling snakes, or would you go to China to be licked by a performance artist? If your name is Dave Gorman, then all of these things could be true....Fuelled by a lust for life and a desperate desire to do anything except what he is supposed to be doing (writing that novel and growing up), Dave falls under the spell of an obscure internet word game--Googlewhacking. Addicted to the game, and gripped by obsession, Dave travels three times round the world, visiting four continents and the unlikeliest cast of real life eccentrics you'll ever meet in what becomes an epic challenge, a life-changing, globe-trotting Googlewhack adventure.
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"The descriptions of place are sometimes trite and obvious, but Gorman's self-deprecating wit and irrational dedication to his quest make this a hilarious travelogue." Booklist
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"Gorman is at his best when he focuses on the googlewhacks whose stories provide glimpses of real-life drama, controversy, and humor. [He] has injected some cyberspace into the age-old wish to 'go wherever your feet take you,' and the end result is as surprising and fun as you always imagined it could be." Library Journal
Synopsis
Gripped by his obsession with Googlewacking, Gorman traveled the world to meet the unlikeliest cast of eccentrics and trace the sources of these arcane conjunctions. The result is this riotously funny memoir.
Synopsis
A hostage to the vagaries of a search engine, Dave Gorman has become a 21st century Dice Man throwing his fortune to the fates--the only difference is that the dice Dave rolls has 3 million faces...