Comments on: Self-analysis

By: Karlo

Karlo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:51:43 +0000

Wow! This is interesting. I may want to try doing something like this someday. :)

By: claire

claire — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:37:41 +0000

What a great idea! I am going to do this at home. Just to gauge my reading habits.

By: verbivore

verbivore — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:43:05 +0000

I love this! And I’d hate to see what my own graphs would look like – my reading has been all over the place this year. I like AR’s idea of a likeability chart for main characters…

By: Biblibio

Biblibio — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:29:18 +0000

It’s possible to view this as a mess but you can also spin it as “varied”. I mean, 1860 closely followed by 1960? A nice 100 years in between to insure you have diversity. Or… not.

And by the way, the use of graphs to show literary thoughts? Brilliant. I might just steal the idea and see if the derivative will show me anything about my reading habits…

By: Amateur Reader

Amateur Reader — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:37:38 +0000

English Village = subcategory of Gardening

Another good graph, for fiction, would be the Recent Reading distribution of the likability of the main characters – from Extremely Likable to Extremely Unlikable.

Or maybe the distribution of the Scope of Action, with Multi-generational Interplanetary Space Opera at one extreme, and an entire book about a single character who never gets out of bed on the other (e.g., Malone Dies).

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:55:10 +0000

You forgot “English village” which would surely be in the top five.

By: Amateur Reader

Amateur Reader — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:46:57 +0000

This is excellent. Now how about a bar chart by Overarching Theme (Love, Death, Grail Quest, Gardening, etc.)?