REVIEW: From Dreamer to Dreamfinder

Okay, so it's been a long-ass time since I've posted anything, but with my trip to Colorado, Disney trip on the horizon, and move to Florida after that (along with some personal bullshit) life just caught up to me and I didn't have a chance to plug anything into the ol' blogaroo.  I needed to get back to this thing and get back in the groove of it, as the trip to Disney looks like it might be (as Leonard Kinsey said in a stunning interview for the WDW Lost Girls podcast last night--thanks!) a Hunter S. Thompson book in the making, and I plan on chronicling it.

When I bought Ron's book, it actually had nothing to do with him being the Dreamfinder.  I was attracted to the story of a man who decided that he wanted to do something and pursued it.  I am, quite literally, doing just that with my life right now so the book was basically a big ball of nip for me.  I couldn't stay away.

On the content of the book, every story is told with such detail that you feel as though you're there, in the scene with Ron as he tells you his story.  The book covers way more than his 'tour' at Disney, too.  There's the lead up, his initial desire--seeing Wally Boag and deciding that that's what he wanted to do--and this his path to get there.  My favorite part of the book is Chapter Five, where he tells about being part of a loud, wild dinner show that revolves around Henry VIII and his court.  Finally, we get to the payoff.  Spoiler, alert, by the way.

He becomes the Dreamfinder, a still-relevant symbol of what EPCOT was, a beloved character that still has people enchanted today.

That's really all I want to say about the content of the book--read it yourself.  What I do wanna talk about is the technical aspects of the book.  The tone is spectacular, reads as though it was someone actually telling you a story, rather than someone talking at you.  The book is paced appropriately, with a few flashbacks and flash forwards where appropriate, to tie off loose ends.

The length of the book is appropriate too.  It doesn't drag on with a lot of fluff to bulk the book unnecessarily, but it doesn't leave you wanting more.  Well, it DOES, but in a positive way, rather than the "that was it?" way that seems to plague so many books these days.  I'm actually looking forward to rereading it over the next week to pick up the little bits that I missed because I read the book in a few chunks.

I love the book.  Love the stories.  And I love how much it has inspired me on such a personal level.

It almost inspired me as much as this .gif image.