Strata Week: Cracking a book's genetic code Here are a few of the data stories that caught my eye this week. The Book Genome Project tries to unlock book DNA Recommendation engines for reading aren’t new. Amazon, for example, is more than happy to give you suggestions on what to read (or, rather, buy) next. But often these recommendations are based on the most popular titles. Even if you’re taking recommendations based on what your friends are reading — say, via sites like Goodreads — you’re still likely to see bestsellers rather than titles that match your particular taste or mood. But BookLamp is working on building a better biblio-recommendation engine. All told, one book can produce 32,162 “genomic measurements,” according to BookLamp. Analyzing the entire Wikipedia data dump with WikiHadoop One of the largest free datasets on the Internet is, as Diederik van Liere points out, the full XML data dump from the English version of Wikipedia. On behalf of data geeks everywhere, thanks to the Wikimedia Summer of Research fellows!
The 100 Best Books of All Time Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria. This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. For publisher Xanadu, Science Fiction was the first of four "100 Best" books published from 1985 to 1988. The sequels covered crime & mystery, horror, and fantasy. Lists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]
BookGlutton - Social Reading Fifty Shades of Grey surprise hit with sex-savvy French women - Report: France Fifty Shades of Grey, about a young girl who falls in love with a handsome billionaire businessman with a penchant for sado-masochism, has sold 65 million copies worldwide. No one thought it would take off in France where it’s now sold two and half million copies. After all the French already know all there is to know about sex, right ? Not so, says Fifty Shade's French publisher Isabelle Laffont. "Everybody was surprised because everybody thought that in France we were the best for sex and so this book wouldn’t do well, it’d already been done," she says. ... already been done by the likes of the Marquis de Sade, Anaïs Nin or Catherine Millet, key French literary alumni who’ve written explicitly about sex. But they don’t speak to your average female, says Laffont. "Erotic literature in France is more sombre, very dark, with people who are submissive and very unhappy," she adds. Laffont admits Fifty Shades isn’t great literature and doesn’t pretend to be. But she declines to divulge any.
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At the Berkeley Free Speech Cafe by Thomas R. Moore France celebrates 70th birthday of Little Prince Le Petit Prince, a series of parables in which a boy prince recounts his adventures among the stars to a pilot on Earth whose plane is downed, was first published in New York in 1943, in English and French. Since then, more than 145 million copies have been sold worldwide, translated into 270 languages and dialects. Saint-Exupéry was a pilot himself and he died mysteriously on a reconnaissance mission, at the age of 44, two years before the publication of his book in France in 1946. To mark the anniversary, a new biography by Virgil Tanase is being published while an earlier book Saint-Exupéry, Archangel and Writer by Nathalie des Vallieres is being reissued. Publisher Folio is issuing a limited edition with a booklet of 24 drawings by Saint-Exupéry, as well as a cartoon version. A CD of the popular 1954 recording of the book narrated by Gérard Philippe is also available.
3 Grown-Up Books For The Hogwarts Grad The Harry Potter franchise has its last hurrah on Friday, and fans like me are facing a forcible graduation from the protection of a fictional universe we've always known. I was 7 when Harry began, but I'm 21 now, and it's time to broaden my horizons beyond Hogwarts. But what to pick up first? The Magicians By Lev Grossman, Paperback, 416 pages, Viking Adult, list price: $16. Cry derivative all you want — Lev Grossman's novel, hailed as Harry Potter for adults, is all that and more. Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card, Paperback, 352 pages, Top Science Fiction, List Price $6.99. The first installment in Orson Scott Card's classic science-fiction series offers a gripping study of how to make a soldier, told through the eyes of child prodigy Andrew "Ender" Wiggin. The Secret History By Donna Tartt, Paperback, 576 pages, Vintage, list price: $16. These books aren't the fantastical J.K. Annie Ropeik is an intern at NPR's All Things Considered and lives in Silver Spring, Md. The Secret History A Novel
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