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
Ancient Adventures... Author: Alan de Queiroz Scholars have been studying human history for millennia, recognizing that to understand the present, ...
Haunted by History... Author: Eula Biss Writing about race isn’t easy. It’s loaded with the potential to offend, regardless of ...
Playing God? Or Not... Author: J. Craig Venter Despite millennia of effort, the greatest minds in science, religion and philosophy ...
Heroics on the High Seas... Author: Gabriel García Márquez When Gabriel García Márquez, recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize for ...
MacGyver on Mars... Author: Andy Weir I’m confident that someday – maybe in the next couple of decades – humans ...
The Worst of the Weeds... Author: Elizabeth Kolbert There’s little debate that humankind has had a significant impact on the ...
The Empire That Wasn't... Author: Peter Stark Nowadays, Astoria is just a small city of 10,000 people in northwestern Oregon, ...
Courage and Culture Shock... Author: Liz Stephens As hard as it is to believe, aspiring writer Liz Stephens isn’t completely ...
The Secrets of Life... Author: Sean B. Carroll I’ve often said that the best science writing comes from actual scientists ...
Reality Stings... Author: Laline Paull Flora 717 is the lowest of the low. A humble sanitation worker in a struggling ...
Get Your Buzz On... Author: Dave Goulson Once in a while, I’m fortunate to come across a book that presents ...
Dust Farming... Author: Jonathan Raban American history is replete with stories of unbridled – some would say delusional – optimism, ...
The Horrors of the "Great War"... Author: Erich Maria Remarque Although I’m no authority on world history, I think there ...
All Quiet in Northern Iraq... Author: Kevin Powers I’ve never fought in a war. So I can’t claim to know ...
Alone at Auschwitz... Author: Thomas Buergenthal His story is just one among millions of victims, but as a ten-year-old Jewish ...
Mother Nature's Mean Side... Author: Sebastian Junger One of the problems with non-fiction writing is that the events one writes ...
100 Years Later... Author: Adam Hochschild Human history may have never witnessed a more rapid and horrific conflagration than what ...
Soaring (and litigating) into history... Author: Lawrence Goldstone In the vast pantheon of great American heroes, there are only two ...
Teen-Age Transcendence... Author: Barbara Ehrenreich It’s an experience that can be described in many different ways, using a surprisingly diverse ...
Out of Africa... Author: David Quammen Every so often an author writes a book at just the right time. In ...
