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A fun intersection of statistics and literature. His methodology is less rigorous, imo, than that of the authors behind The Bestseller Code, but this is far more entertaining. It's very much a "I wonder what the percentages would look like if I searched for..." book: What word does an author use most frequently? Do authors follow their own writing advice? And do fanfic writers try to out-British the Brits with their slang? (That was a fun one.) Blatt did try to get a wide-ranging sample of books
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There's data and there's literature. What's not to love?
What makes a great opening sentence? How can one conclude with some confidence whether a book was written by a man or a woman just by counting how many times they use certain seemingly innocuous words?
Did you know that Michael Connelly uses the word "nodded" quite a bit? Apparently in one of his books, his main character nodded 243 times.
Fascinating stuff. ...more
What makes a great opening sentence? How can one conclude with some confidence whether a book was written by a man or a woman just by counting how many times they use certain seemingly innocuous words?
Did you know that Michael Connelly uses the word "nodded" quite a bit? Apparently in one of his books, his main character nodded 243 times.
Fascinating stuff. ...more
When we analyze literature with the perspective of a computer analyst we don't get a very interesting book.
I picked this up with the idea that the author really loved literature. Hopefully, he would ponder how many similarities in great literature. However, we get no love. Instead, it is just someone trying to prove a computer can do something as well as an artistic analytical human. However, what you get is the introduction to poetry from Dead Poets Society. I think the author has seen since h ...more
I picked this up with the idea that the author really loved literature. Hopefully, he would ponder how many similarities in great literature. However, we get no love. Instead, it is just someone trying to prove a computer can do something as well as an artistic analytical human. However, what you get is the introduction to poetry from Dead Poets Society. I think the author has seen since h ...more
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