Visualizations : Harry Potter is Freaking Popular : Well, I've read a few of them... And...
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Comments (21)
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Alison
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Lots of Tolkien, a few by Austen, another few by Dan Brown, but looks like Rowling still takes the cake.
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Martin Wattenberg
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I have read 40 of these. I guess I have normal taste in books! The ones in orange are the ones I have *not* read yet.
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Martin Wattenberg
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Compare this with a visualization of Project Gutenberg downloads.
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joannascott
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I've read 23 of them - a bit depressing, I thought I would have read a lot more than that. Also seems I have missed all the "classics" and read all the modern "children's" books!
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dcjohn
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Tagging material read seemed fun, so here's what I've read.
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Matt McKeon
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Martin, I don't think these books are strongly correlated with "normal" taste. :) Best sellers are well-represented, but the long tail (or "big hump" in the histogram below) is solidly in the "people who are on the Internet and likely to use LibraryThing" category, e.g. Tolkein, Wicked, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and Neil Gaiman, Ender's Game, etc.
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Anonymous
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Here is what I have read, although I think I am going to pick up some of the books I have seen on this chart. :)
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Alison
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Nice histogram, Matt. Yes, I believe your analysis is correct: this is definitely a representation of LibraryThing users, not the population in general.
And since everyone else was doing it, I highlighted books I've read. Note that The Lord of the Rings trilogy appears both as a collection and as separate volumes. Tolkien would have a much higher standing if these were combined. |
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Anonymous
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Makes me want to read the ones I've missed!
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Anonymous
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orange = one's I have read
several of the others are sitting on my bookshelf waiting for me to start them, this has inspired me to fish them out! |
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Anonymous
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Fascinating! I've orange-tagged the ones I've read as well. I look forward to getting to know Many Eyes, seems like it's got some great potential.
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Anonymous
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Wow - I'm amazingly average in my reading tastes.
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Anonymous
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Very interesting. I did not include ones I started and never finished but was surprised at how many I had done on this list.
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chanale
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Mine looks like an orange circle surrounded by a ring of blue, but if my husband highlighted the ones he has read, his would be nearly the inverse (blue with a ring of orange) since he won't read Harry Potter.
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Anonymous
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hmm... all of these I have either read or have been meaning to read... ^_^
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currently showing
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Anonymous
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Well, I've read a few of them...
And here's my library thing profile: http://www.librarything.com/profile/trantjd |
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Anonymous
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Funny to find Strange&Norrell there -- never realized it was so popular.
Erik Postma. |
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Anonymous
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Another snapshot that looks like everyone else's. :) A number of the classics I have read part of or own but haven't read yet.
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Anonymous
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Such a nice idea.
I'm currently fascinated by works of Haruki Murakami, and not even one of his books has made it to this list... :( |
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sameerh
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I've only read 9 out of these (in orange)
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msedlar
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I've only read 14, but I'm happy some of my favorite books are in here.
As for Murakami, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles" is excellent and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. |