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The Bestseller Code
By:Jodie Archer,Matthew L. Jockers
Published on 2016-09-20 by St. Martin's Press

|When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so.|—Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you’ll typically hear that it’s a game of hazy crystal balls. The sales figures of E. L. James or Dan Brown seem to be freakish—random occurrences in an unknowable market. But what if there were an algorithm that could reveal a secret DNA of bestsellers, regardless of their genre? What if it knew, just from analyzing the words alone, not just why genre writers like John Grisham and Danielle Steel belong on the lists, but also that authors such as Junot Diaz, Jodi Picoult, and Donna Tartt had telltale signs of success all over their pages? Thanks to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, the algorithm exists, the code has been cracked, and the results bring fresh new insights into how fiction works and why we read. The Bestseller Code offers a new theory for why Fifty Shades of Grey sold so well. It sheds light on the current craze for dark heroines. It reveals which themes tend to sell best. And all with fascinating supporting data taken from a five-year study of twenty thousand novels. Then there is the hunt for |the one|—the paradigmatic example of bestselling writing according to a computer's analysis of thousands of points of data. The result is surprising, a bit ironic, and delightfully unorthodox. This book explains groundbreaking text-mining research in accessible terms and offers a new perspective on the New York Times bestseller list. It's a big-idea book about the relationship between creativity and technology that will be provocative to anyone interested in how analytics have already transformed the worlds of finance, medicine, and sports. But at heart it is a celebration of books for readers and writers—a compelling investigation into how successful writing works, and a fresh take on our intellectual and emotional response to stories.

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(Please understand that many a sic are recommended in the following reviews.) its actually complex and foolish! why cant we be reading like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is excellent! There you've it. Refreshingly, not really a evaluation written in one of many witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal scream unleashed to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a quality that renders his convictions all the more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on the exact same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which can be the case, for several I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it had been designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not really a play. Together with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every single character for a few pages). None people had see the play before. None of us wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to create me more or less hate reading classics for something such as 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it really can fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the writer and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to see plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to learn a play you then have sinned and are likely to hell, if you believe in hell. Or even, you're going to the DMV. I am also fed up with all you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age when we are taught to respect each other's differences, this indicates offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to anticipate others tokowtow to your small linguistic rules. Creative concept will free of charge itself no matter how you are attempting to be able to shackle it. 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Everyone loves anyone with a in vain greedy from similes that are unable to tactic the bilious hate in the heart. You're my own, as well as I'm yours. Figuratively discussing, associated with course. And after this this is my review: Macbeth through Bill Shakespeare is the best literary function from the English language terminology, and anyone that disagrees is surely an asshole and also a dumbhead.