Are You Dave Gorman? by Danny
Wallace
Entertaining Adventure! Couldn't Put It Down! Had A Lot Of Fun Reading This!
After a heavy night of tequila, flatmates Dave and Danny set off on what
turns out to be a 24,000-mile journey to meet all the other Dave Gormans
in the world. They visit Scotland, Israel, America, France and Ireland. They
even hold a party in London where 50 Dave Gormans attend, including two
women who have kindly changed their name via deed-poll. Silly, but
engrossing, fascinating and addictive - and a touching story of two friends
who grow to share a mutual obsession.
Personal Review: Are You Dave Gorman? by Danny Wallace
This is a very entertaining and fun to read book written in the style of two
separate author diary entries recounting the tale of following a bet to track
down 54 people with the same name as one of them. Dave Gorman and
his reluctant flatmate Danny Wallace have a drunken bet which results in
them waking up on a train pulling into Scotland from London on a quest to
meet a man who coaches a small town soccer team. They have never met
him before, have no idea what he looks like, just that he coaches this team
and his name is Dave Gorman. Just before arriving at the field Danny
ponders the question of how do they even know the team will have a home
game. Dave hadn't thought about this, in fact he hadn't thought about

what he would actually do when he meets his namesake. He did bring a
camera though. The fact that they haven't really thought the plan through
is what makes this quest and the many subsequent quests to meet people
named Dave Gorman hilarious as a lot of the funny stuff is what goes
wrong. Dave Gorman is determined to meet the target of 54 Dave
Gormans, a number determined by Danny by the number of cards in a
deck, including jokers. Danny reluctantly accompanies Dave along the
way, very much annoying and putting his relationship with his girlfriend
Hanne in severe jeopardy.
I've previously read all of Danny Wallace's books (all written after this) so
was interested in tracking this co-authored book down and was not
disappointed. Being a co-authored book it is a little bit different to those
reads but not that much. Dave Gorman writes slightly different to Danny,
more closer but not quite at a stand up comedian speech style where as
Danny has his journalistic trained style and they both mash extremely well
together. Although I wouldn't put this is the same masterpiece league as
Join Me or Yes Man that Danny wrote on his own I would still rate Are You
Dave Gorman? five stars. This book lacks the take a look at yourself and
change yourself for the better motivation that those two books have but it is
still a fun adventure. If you've read Danny Wallace and the Centre of the
Universe, this is the same sort of thing as that but obviously a lot longer in
length. As well as the text there are also a few pages of photographs in
the middle of this book about their adventure. In subsequent published
Wallace books these have moved to be in the section of the book that the
story is currently about which does make a bit more sense so you don't
find out about stuff before you've read it. You just have to look at these
photographs after you've finished the book!
I really enjoyed this book and will definitely be looking for the stuff Dave
has written on his own as well. I've already ordered Dave Gorman's
Googlewack Adventure, can't wait for it to arrive!
If you haven't already done so definitely get a copy of Join Me and Yes
Man by Danny Wallace along with his short story adventure Danny
Wallace and the Centre of the Universe. These books are sensational!
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