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Comments on MetaFilter post 20th-Century American BestsellersThu, 11 Mar 2010 00:05:58 -0800Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:05:58 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss6020th-Century American Bestsellers
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<a href="http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/">20th-Century American Bestsellers</a> (novels). <a href="http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/picked.books.cgi">Browse</a> the database: <a href="http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=The+Hunt+for+Red+October"><i>The Hunt for Red October</i></a> - <a href="http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=Watership+Down"><i>Watership Down</i></a> - &c.post:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:54:32 -0800stbalbachnovelsliteraturebestsellerBy: bardic
http://www.metafilter.com/89988/20thCentury-American-Bestsellers#2988281
Professor Unsworth was so proud of this stuff when he was at UVA.
Many others were not impressed.
But looks like he's done well for himself. I guess.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988281Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:05:58 -0800bardicBy: cgc373
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This ... this is wonderful! The level of detail! Just the information about print runs and total sales during the books' lifetimes. The citations for bibliographical information! The little critical summaries! Man alive, this friggin' rules.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988290Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:53:17 -0800cgc373By: cgc373
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Hmm. Some of the copy-editing's questionable, though. William Marrow? Publisher's Weekly? The first one I read was for <a href="http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/bestsellers/search.cgi?title=Jaws"><em>Jaws</em></a>, and I didn't notice until Sidney Sheldon's <em>Masters of the Game</em> that these seem to be student assignments compiled into a searchable database. Naturally their quality will vary. It's still an ambitious and cool thing, but I don't know anymore how much to trust it, making it less valuable than I'd thought at first.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988294Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:10:59 -0800cgc373By: bardic
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"these seem to be student assignments compiled into a searchable database"
They are. That was the final assignment for his undergraduate course on popular fiction.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988302Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:33:57 -0800bardicBy: ryaninoakland
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Wow, Winston Churchill dominated the fiction charts at the turn of the century.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988319Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:43:29 -0800ryaninoaklandBy: Horace Rumpole
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<em>It's still an ambitious and cool thing, but I don't know anymore how much to trust it</em>
I think the usual Wikipedia sort of caveats apply. Don't cite it in scholarly research, but it seems like a pretty solid resource for being pointed in right direction or for answers requiring only a casual level of rigor. I think it's awesome that he's harnessed all this undergrad research labor to make something really useful.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988377Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:58:01 -0800Horace RumpoleBy: kozad
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Probably the strangest book to make the top ten in Fiction is <em>In His Own Write</em>, by John Lennon, 1964.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988546Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:32:53 -0800kozadBy: bz
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<em>"Winston Churchill dominated the fiction charts at the turn of the century."</em> But his accent didn't fully develop until much later.comment:www.metafilter.com,2010:site.89988-2988872Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:43:59 -0800bz
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