Dave DriftlessGeorge Bounacos2017-03-07T11:17:44-07:00
About Dave
The obsession began as a wiry teen.
While the lovely young fillies would beg Dave to come out and play, he was up in his room with his books.
Asimov, Bradbury and Clarke were so prolific that he never ran out of options and Tolkien’s world was so complex that repeated readings were always on the agenda.
The affair progressed to compulsion with reading lists and wish lists and constant strategizing; eventually evolving on to hoarding so many volumes he could never hope to actually read them all. Alas, adult responsibilities intervened and the passion became quiet for many years. Despair not, as the old flame still smolders and lately the graying bibliophile has regained some of the old fanaticism, focusing on more mature, but equally nerdy topics.
It’s rare for a science, nature or history book to fail to pique his interest and he’s developed a new enthusiasm for writing about his reading experiences. It’s clear that this love affair was meant to last.
Dave’s Reviews
Inglorious Grizzlies... Author: Jon Krakauer It usually remains a dark and painful secret. But studies suggest that up to 20% ...
Virus of Horror... Authors: Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy It’s hard to imagine what life was like before the vaccine ...
From mugging mollusks to comical crabs... Author: Susan Middleton Maybe you don’t think that slugs, worms and crabs sound like ...
Cotton, Crimes and Capitalism... Author: Edward E. Baptist From the very beginning, historian Edward E. Baptist makes an interesting choice ...
Essays are for cowards... Author: David Foster Wallace I’ll never read Infinite Jest. Although I consider myself a David Foster ...
100 Years of Vicissitude... Author: Erik Larson We have a lot different words for it – luck, chance, fate or ...
Reclaiming ancient grasslands... Author: Dan O'Brien It actually sounds pretty boring. A financially strapped loner buys some buffalo for his ...
Death Trains... Author: Scott Andrew Selby There’s an unwritten rule when it comes to the modern world of publishing. Every ...
A small universe underfoot... Author: David George Haskell It’s counterintuitive. The closer you look at any natural space – the ...
Dreams of a slave empire... Author: Erik Calonius Scoundrels, rogues and villains. American history is awash with the stories of ...
Seasonal spine-tingling... Author: Ray Bradbury A leafless tree branch scratching against the side of the house in the night. Dried ...
Of Sheep and Men... Author: James Rebanks Back in college, one of my housemates was a shepherd. This outwardly ordinary ...
Don't stop non-believin'... Author: Richard Dawkins It’s one of the most profound and all-encompassing ideas in the history of science ...
Dolphinophilia... Author: Susan Casey What if we’re being watched? Imagine that benevolent aliens have been observing human behavior over the ...
Shrinkage... Author: Judd Apatow If there’s a living human who has spent more of his waking moments searching for the ...
Life as illusion... Author: David Eagleman Every once in a while, humanity’s view of the world gets turned completely upside ...
The Last of Twelve? Author: Mark Riebling Why was he silent? Often referred to as “Hitler’s Pope,” Pius XII has ...
Heroic history... Author: Andrea Wulf Who’s your biggest hero? Most people will be able to come up with a few ...
Christmas for Everybody... Editors: Robin Harvie and Stephanie Meyers What’s an atheist to do? Assaulted from every direction by Christmas ...
Bodies at Risk... Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown were never slaves. But in the end, ...
