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
A Reluctant Emperor... Author: Robert Graves When a novel is named one of the greatest books of the 20th century, ...
Get Lost ! Author: Alastair Bonnett In my backyard are two sturdy metal spikes – buried almost flush with the ...
There's No Place Like Home... Author: Bernd Heinrich A green sea turtle has a brain no bigger than a walnut ...
Floating Terror... Author: Ross Coen Any fifth grader can tell you that American involvement in World War II was precipitated ...
Antibodies and Animus... Author: Eula Biss Did you get your flu shot this fall? If you haven’t, you should. It ...
Life, Death and Mice... Author: Billy Collins I haven’t been able to fully explain it until recently. But when I ...
Dawn of the Undead... Author: Bram Stoker Few creatures have proven more durable in modern literature than the dreaded vampire. ...
Ursus hilarious... Author: Matthew Inman As anyone knows, oatmeal is a popular porridge made from oats – a weed that ...
Americans in the Arctic... Author: Hampton Sides You may have never noticed them, tucked away on the northernmost fringe of ...
What's on your mind...? Author: Sam Harris What’s going on inside your head? Who’s in charge of your thoughts? If ...
From Auden to Zweig... Author: Peter Watson The prognosis was terminal when Friedrich Nietzsche first declared “Gott ist tot” (“God ...
Escapades on Scottish Seascapes... Author: Kathleen Jamie If remote and desolate geographical names like Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands stir your ...
Anatomy of a Myth... Author: Stephen Jimenez On the night of October 6th, 1998 in outskirts of Laramie, Wyoming, a ...
Don't let the bed bugs bite... Author: Jeffrey A. Lockwood The reaction is so ingrained in the human psyche that ...
Breaking Boffo... Author: Bob Odenkirk Bob Odenkirk has been around for a long time, initially as a writer for Saturday ...
Something Completely Different... Author: John Cleese He’s the tall one – with a head that seems like it was meant ...
Must try harder... Author: Walter Mischel When it comes to will power – and everything else for that matter – ...
A Wise Feathered Friend... Author: Martin Windrow For millennia, humans have been found owls intriguing. Whether as symbols of impending ...
Sunshine and Desperation... Author: J. Robert Lennon While I think about books a lot, I don’t often pay much attention ...
A Hero in Wartime... Author: S. C. Gwynne Having spent my entire sentient life in the great northern state of ...
