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Editorial Review:
The award-winning Are You Dave Gorman? is the oddly touching story of how Perrier Award nominee Dave Gorman went in search of all the world's other Dave Gormans.
Fans of the TV version of this travelogue-cum-Arthurian-quest will know how it all began: one minute Dave and his flatmate Danny Wallace (himself a talented producer and writer) were kicking their heels in suburban London, the next they were on the night-train to Scotland to see assistant manager of East Fife Football Club David Gorman, so Dave Gorman could prove to Danny Wallace there were other Dave Gormans--and thereby win a drinker's bet. Such was the buzz Dave Gorman got from meeting Dave Gorman, he then went on a half year schlep around the world seeking out yet more Dave Gormans: in Ireland, Israel, Norway, America, with a sarcastically derisive Danny Wallace in constant and niggling attendance.
Things that work on TV--or start as drunken bets--don't always make the most successful of books and there are times when Are You Dave Gorman? seems a little contrived, not to say fatuously pointless. But such is the charm, candour, and wit of the two writers' alternating voices, any qualms come to seem churlish, if not thick-headed: it's the very frivolousness and absurdity of Are You Dave Gorman? that makes it so boyishly likeable. --Sean Thomas
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
What a great idea In a world where most people don't give each other the time of day it is great to see groups of strangers giving two random men time for a sit down and a talk with their name being the only thing they have in common. I read this book in a day while waiting for my plane to arrive and found myself close to tears at points because it was so funny. The idea of travelling around the world to meet people with the same name as you, its briliant and I'm jealous that I didn't think of it first. I also... more info
forget those five-star reviews they were probably posted by the authors' friends. There is no other explanation for those positive ratings. This is the first book in years I've stopped reading after forcing myself through the first one hundred pages. Boring, boring, boring. Two guys overstretch a very weak story to make a book and they do so by narrating it in such a ghastly way that you start hating yourself for having fallen for the reviewers' hype. I had my doubts but I decided to believe the "readers" ratings. Believe me, there is no... more info
enjoyed it enormously Not a book to read on the train when youre alone because you WILL just look like someone giggling manicallly to yourself. It's a GREAT book
I spoke to Dave Gorman number 18! A few years ago I was enjoying a cuppa and a posh biscuit at a mates house (I know how to treat myself) and Dave Gorman came on the telly to be promote his new book. It sounded like a lark - a guy takes on a bet to find 54 people called Dave Gorman and ends up travelling the world. We went halves and ordered the book - the joint ownership worked well and we both read it swiftly.... ...I'd never read anything like this before, a comedy book which was genuinely laugh out loud funny and also very... more info
