Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
1. WHO IS DAVE GORMAN?
• Dave Gorman is an award-winning comedian, storyteller and writer from the UK.
• He won the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Jury Prize for Best One Person Show.
• He has appeared on the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous and The Late Show With David Letterman.
• His first book Are You Dave Gorman? has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK.
• His second book, Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure has netted 60,000 copies to date since January 1, 2004, entering the Sunday Times Bestseller List at #1.
2. WHAT THE HELL IS A GOOGLEWHACK?
• When you type two words into the Google search engine and get exactly one result. That is, only one Web page in the world happens to have the combination of words you've entered in the search box. That is a googlewhack!
• Some past examples of googlewhacks include “comparative unicyclist,” “maladroit wheezer,” and “blithering clops.”
• There is a 1-in-3-billion chance of being a googlewhack.
• For a full explanation, visit www.googlewhack.com Be warned: googlewhacking is completely addictive!
3. WHAT IS Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure?
• Dave’s creative way to procrastinate as much as possible while writing a novel for his UK publisher, Ebury.
• The mysterious e-mail from Australia that read simply “Did you know you’re a googlewhack?” and Dave’s subsequent obsession with googlewhacking that took him three times around the world...at the expense of the novel he was supposed to write.
• This is Bill Bryson for a new generation, a hilarious book about the people Dave meets while he travels the globe for the strangers he has googlewhacked.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Four years ago, after locating 54 people who shared his name, stand-up comic Gorman used that frivolous notion as the basis for an award-winning, one-man stage show and book (Are You Dave Gorman?). Specializing in comedic travel writing, he found an excuse for more globe-trotting when he began google-whacking, or typing two words (such as "Dork Turnspit") into Google's search engine that would return only one result. Google-whacking constantly, he began to meet other google-whackers, from Seattle to Sydney. Soon he had a new stage show, and this book, based on that show, probes his obsession with the word game while presenting the colorful cast of eccentrics he encountered from a Beijing performance artist to the guy whose house is a shrine to Mickey Mouse. Gorman's gift for siphoning silliness from any cubbyhole has an appeal for many (this book quickly became a U.K. bestseller), but not all readers will be ROTFLMAO ("rolling on the floor laughing my ass off"), as per Internet jargon. The nomadic Gorman does manage to maintain a breathless, high-spirited pace, offering an onslaught of amusing anecdotes and digressive detours along the way. 22 b&w photos.
