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
Classics Revisited... Author: Michael Cunningham Why are fairy tales so enduring? Tantalizingly magical and inhabited by all sorts of mysterious ...
What's so funny? Author: Jim Holt Why is it funny when Will Ferrell plays a cowbell in an ill-fitting brown ...
Bears, Beets, Bassoons... Author: Rainn Wilson Who’s your favorite paper salesman? It’s only been in the past decade that television ...
Growing up Gontian... Author: Ursula K. LeGuin Ever since Harry Potter burst on the young adult literary scene in 1997, ...
Put a bird on it... Author: Lyanda Lynn Haupt Science in action! Not test tubes, lab rats and particle colliders, ...
The Real Bat Man... Author: Merlin Tuttle We used to think they were utterly evil. But nowadays, anyone who pays ...
Forgotten French Friends... Author: Sarah Vowell Everyone knows that George Washington was the “father of his country”. Moreover, based on ...
The end of peace... Author: Hampton Sides It was one shot destined to go down in infamy, arguably the most ...
Right or Left? Author: David Orr Poetry interpretation may not be at topic that instantly sparks enthusiasm in most readers ...
Algerian absurdity... Author: Albert Camus The word “indifferent” doesn’t quite capture how unusual this man is. Meursault’s mother has just ...
100 years of empire... Authors: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone Sometimes it’s important to get a second opinion. This is ...
Supreme injustice... Author: Adam Cohen It was a mismatch of profoundly appalling proportions. In one corner was the esteemed 86 ...
It's not rocket science... Author: Richard H. Thaler They had a terminal case of formula envy. From the earliest days ...
Life after death? Author: Brady Carlson It’s happened exactly 38 times. As of this writing (April 2016), 38 current or ...
Revolt on the high seas... Author: Greg Grandin There was a lot of money to be made. For more than ...
Western horror... Author: Cormac McCarthy Darkest of the dark. Famous for his violent and depressing works, most notably No Country ...
Quoth the Raven... Author: Paul Collins Featuring the most famous bird in American literature, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven has ...
Dark disappointment... Author: Lisa Randall I thought that physicists had given up. In the 1980s and 1990s, when they decided ...
Murky musings... Author: Noam Chomsky Are there limits to what we can understand? How can the human brain generate incredible ...
9000 years of suds... Authors: Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith and Aaron McConnell More than 35 billion gallons a year! That’s ...
