I Am a Statistical Anomaly
Dec. 20th, 2006 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alanajoliHaving just caught up on various live journals, I paused to pay attention to Neil Gaiman's recent mention of Library Thing's UnSuggester. The idea is that they'll run some mathematical scan to see what books owned by Library Thing members are *unlikely* to be owned by Library Thing members who own other books. Hopefully that makes more sense when you read it than when I just typed it.
Here's an example, which I did as a test in response to Neil Gaiman's comment that people who own his books are unlikely to own books about Christianity. I plugged in Dark Night of the Soul, by St. John of the Cross, and got the following result. Of the 71 titles listed, I have either read or own 41 one of them. (Granted, some of what I've read I do not own, which is not the statistic they're measuring, and some of them I own I have not read, but that is a statistic they're measuring, so I believe it evens out.)
I think Library Thing is a great idea, but don't have time nor patience that would be required to log all my books, so it seems my status as a statistical anomaly will go unchanged.
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I wish I had news on Departure for all of you, as it was supposed to be released this weekend, but alas, I don't. Or that I could tell you that both Amazon and Barnes and Noble were carrying Into the Reach before the holidays, but it looks like mid-January is the best we'll be able to do.
I did find a fun review online the other day though. Hurrah for google!
Here's a look at Steampunk Musha from The RPG Site.
Matt from Flames Rising was kind enough to post his review of Into the Reach in the comments of a recent entry here, but I forgot to actually post it on my page. Here it is.
There are also some comments about Into the Reach in forums, but those aren't full reviews, so I won't post them here. They're largely nice, though, which is a good feeling.
No word on whether Jewel Staite read the novel yet, but maybe someday we'll hear...
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Edit: Oh! I almost forgot. After the review from the good folks over at RPG Blog, I checked out a novel by David Gemmel, Legend, due to the favorable comparison. I finally finished it last week (after it spent some time in my library pile) and I have to say it blew me away. I'm truly honored that his name came up in a review of my novel. We just bought another of his books, so I'll be reading that soon, as well. If you haven't read David Gemmell, do yourself a favor and put him on your reading list.
Here's an example, which I did as a test in response to Neil Gaiman's comment that people who own his books are unlikely to own books about Christianity. I plugged in Dark Night of the Soul, by St. John of the Cross, and got the following result. Of the 71 titles listed, I have either read or own 41 one of them. (Granted, some of what I've read I do not own, which is not the statistic they're measuring, and some of them I own I have not read, but that is a statistic they're measuring, so I believe it evens out.)
I think Library Thing is a great idea, but don't have time nor patience that would be required to log all my books, so it seems my status as a statistical anomaly will go unchanged.
--
I wish I had news on Departure for all of you, as it was supposed to be released this weekend, but alas, I don't. Or that I could tell you that both Amazon and Barnes and Noble were carrying Into the Reach before the holidays, but it looks like mid-January is the best we'll be able to do.
I did find a fun review online the other day though. Hurrah for google!
Here's a look at Steampunk Musha from The RPG Site.
Matt from Flames Rising was kind enough to post his review of Into the Reach in the comments of a recent entry here, but I forgot to actually post it on my page. Here it is.
There are also some comments about Into the Reach in forums, but those aren't full reviews, so I won't post them here. They're largely nice, though, which is a good feeling.
No word on whether Jewel Staite read the novel yet, but maybe someday we'll hear...
--
Edit: Oh! I almost forgot. After the review from the good folks over at RPG Blog, I checked out a novel by David Gemmel, Legend, due to the favorable comparison. I finally finished it last week (after it spent some time in my library pile) and I have to say it blew me away. I'm truly honored that his name came up in a review of my novel. We just bought another of his books, so I'll be reading that soon, as well. If you haven't read David Gemmell, do yourself a favor and put him on your reading list.
