"I'll buy you some socks. Any socks you like. Imagine that!" (Are You Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace)

Member Name: Hestia

Product:	Are You Dave Gorman? - Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace
Date:	14/08/02 (104 review reads)
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Advantages: Very, very funny, Leads to unsubstantiated feelings of goodwill & optimism

Disadvantages: I am not Dave Gorman (and almost certainly never will be)

Most people having found that there were two or three others with the same name as themselves in existence, would leave it at that.

Most people wouldn't see it as a cue to go on a 6 month quest to document as many namesakes as they could find.

Most people aren't Dave Gorman.

(Although there are a surprisingly large number of them out there.)

A drunken argument saw Dave Gorman and his flatmate, Danny Wallace on a 6.15am train from London to Glenrothes in order to determine whether an ex-East Fife goalkeeper was called Dave Gorman.

He was. He consented to have his photograph taken with two hungover smelly Englishmen, admitted he had a son of the same name and the world (at least the world for Dave Gormans everywhere) has never been the same again.

Dave Gorman (not the first, the title DG1 was bestowed on the East Fife ex-goalkeeper, Dave Gorman the author must be DG0, Dave Gorman the nothingth) excitedly tracked down DG2 (son of DG1). He consented to have HIS photograph taken - looking somewhat frightened in the process.

From then on, Dave was embarked on a quest and Danny Wallace found himself hideously involved with no "Get-out-of-finding-Dave-Gormans-free" card.

It threatened his health, his sanity, his choice in socks (the 'any socks you want' offer culminating in a pair of tartan socks from a cheesy tourist outlet - this may have been part of the reason why DG2 looked so frightened), and most importantly his relationship with his girlfriend Hanne.

Hanne bore everything a girlfriend could be expected to endure. And then some. And then some more. And then, for good measure, quite a good deal after that.

Once Danny had rashly set the target number of Dave Gormans at 54 (or all the cards in the pack, including the jokers), the mission had begun. Dave Gormen (the now offical pluralisation) had to be found.

And they were. DG3 ran a bookshop. DG4
had a big lawnmower. DG5 was just lovely...

Their mission took them to New York, Germnay and Tel Aviv. It even took them to Ireland - somewhat slowly on the uptake seeing as Gorman is, apparantly, an Irish name.

Do they reach their target? I'll attempt to keep it suspenseful although I guess you already know the answer.

Read it. You'll be on the edge of your seat wanting them to succeed (strangely true) you'll laugh out loud (at least I did, many times) and you'll find yourself wishing that you were called Dave Gorman or at least knew of a colleague's friend's cousin's boyfriend with that very special name.

Are you Dave Gorman? Gosh, I wish I was. It seems like such a cool gang to be in.

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