And now, some less obvious observations on the findings from my investigation into generic fantasy-fiction titles. But first, for anyone that wants it, here’s a spreadsheet with my raw counts (OpenDocumentSpreadsheet [.ods] format). The first column is the word or concept being counted (if it’s got parentheses around it, it’s a label I made up … [Read more…]
As mentioned in the previous post, I spent some time tediously adding up the word frequencies from the 2500 “Bestselling” fantasy book titles from Barnes and Noble to get aggregate scores for particular concepts, along with noticing a few other possibly-interesting facts as I did so. By the end of this post, you should have … [Read more…]
“Dark”. For years now it’s seemed to me like every fantasy novel, movie, tv show, etc. were titled with the same handful of words. I finally got around to doing some empirical investigation to see if it’s true. I wrote a script to “scrape” the results of a major online bookseller’s 2500 or so “Bestselling” … [Read more…]