From the same witty and mildly anarchic pen as Are you Dave Gorman;

'Like Bruce Chatwin, with a sense of humour, or like Don Quixote, a kind of holy fool of stand-up'

DG follows up the success of ‘Are you Dave Gorman?’ with another contrived and futile comedy travelogue adventure. Whilst avoiding writing a novel Gorman travels the world looking for the rare – or not so rare on this evidence – ‘Googlewhacks’, spiced with a challenge and a ticking clock, neither of which adds a great deal to the exercise IMHO. DG is funny in parts, but his internal dialogue is embarrassingly candid and a little bit too detailed, and it starts to wear a little bit thin.

Fav. Quote. ‘(Ken) had a dark moustache flecked with grey to keep his smile warm.’

One redeeming snippet is my favourite use of a Business Analyst in popular writing! Gorman meets American BA Christa using her WiFi laptop in the airport…a technological marvel way back in 2005!

‘Christa, who described herself as a business analyst, whatever that is, had immediately seen a way through the problem.’

After some diagramming and wisdom;

‘I [still] had no idea what a business analyst actually did for a living, but on this evidence I suspected that she was very good at it.’

Oh, did I mention that I am a Business Analyst?!

RELEASE NOTES:

I'm taking this to the Prescott St pool this evening on my way home from work...not sure where I will leave it, probably somewhere dry.

If you find this, welcome to the serendipity of bookcrossing, an appropriate book about random web travels. Enjoy :)

ps. the closest I came to a Googlewhack playing this afternoon was 'Wildfowl Intermediation' - don't ask!