Mapping your favourite authors

[Kookamoor]

Check this out!! Do you agree with the geographic proximity of your favourite authors?

http://www.literature-map.com/

 

[theoptimist]

It managed to link Chuck Palahniuk with Dan Brown. No I do not agree with the geographic proximity of that!

Some of them are close, it's also a good way of finding new authors to look up. Nice link Kook

 

[superlibrarian]

This site is brilliant and mesmerizing. Thanks for sharing it!

 

[Baddie]

Wow, what a great site.
Maped up some of my favourite authors and found a few in the same gate that I've been thinking of reading. This site shows that I might really like these authors since the matched with my favourite ones.

 

[literati_one]

I typed in a couple of my favorite authors, and found that it was fairly accurate.
Interesting...

 

[abecedarian]

Cool tool kook! I entered Sharyn McCrumb.. and found other authors I knew and loved, and a bunch I don't know yet. I'll have to save this one.

 

[denny]

Thanks for the link. I tried it with a few of my favorite authors, and a lot of my favorites were well grouped together. There were a few I haven't tried though, so that should keep me busy for a while.

It looks like a very helpful site. Thanks!

 

[tartan_skirt]

It's quite fun to see if any of your favourite authors link up (which many of mine do). Although when I searched for Garth Nix one of his closest names was Gath Nix, which I'm assuming is just a spelling error. A lot of the searches have given quite accurate results so far. I'll definately be giving this another try soon. Thanks!

 

[Anamnesis]

Unless there are authors named Laura K. Hamilton and Janet Evanovih that I have yet to discover, the owners of this site should do a better job looking out for typos. The site actually does a decent job of matching up similar authors, though I fail to see the similarities between Poppy Z. Brite and Terry McMillan (sharing the same gender doesn't count).

 

[Peder]

Fascinating gadget, and not bad at all!
Ten other authors whom I have read at least some of are clustered around Vladimir Nabokov. Now the challenge is to see what I think of Milan Kundera, one of the nearest unread authors. /slight groan/
Many thanks,
Peder

 

[tartan_skirt]

Hmm... an author they recommend if I liked Alice Sebold is Anonymous. And also Destojevski (which even I know is a spelling error).

Other than the spelling errors one thing that can be annoying is that if you leave it for a while everything drifts further and further til they overlap..

 

[Peder]

Hunh?! Say whut?
I got hypnotised and just snapped out of it!
It's better than roulette or the horses.

 

[cabbagescribe]

It's reeeally slow for me.

Interesting, though. I saw the same kind of thing with music.

Dostoyevsky (reading Crime and Punishment now) is near authors I have read or want to read.