Hot on the heels of the book recommendation site What Should I Read Next? comes another, with a different approach.
The Literature Map invites you to enter the name of an author, and then gives you a ‘map’ of other authors with a similar style or appeal. The graphics are reminiscent of the brilliant Visual Thesaurus that we stumbled across a couple of years ago.
It’s all the work of a ‘self adapting community system’ called Gnooks, which runs on artificial intelligence software called Gnod:
Gnod’s intention is to learn about the outer world and to learn 'understanding' its visitors. This enables gnod to share all its wisdom with you in an intuitive and efficient way. You might call it a search-engine to find things you don't know about.
Gnot a bad idea, methinks.
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Comment by maggie ~ September 29, 2005 5:27 PM
Just had a wee play with the literature map. Typed in Owen Marshall and got Barbara Anderson (well not quite) and Janet Evanovich (I think not!). Witi Ihamaera brought up Salmon Rushie (well, fancy that) and Ben Elton (pardon?).
But Doris Lessing and Anne Tyler were better hits.
Perhaps with use it will become more accurate??
But what fun.
Comment by Xine ~ October 14, 2005 10:56 PM
GREAT fun - many thanks! For Janet Frame I got Janet Frame: Michael King / Lewis Lapham / Thomas Pynchon / Jane Austen / Don Delillo / James Joyce / Vladimir Nabokov / Charles Bukowski / Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Aldous Huxley / Albert Camus / Franz Kafka
Generally illustrious company - but forgive my ignorance - who is Lewis Lapham?
Comment by Chris ~ October 16, 2005 8:53 PM
He's apparently an American author. We don't know anything about him, but his books are on sale in NZ: http://www.realgroovy.co.nz/books/search/author?searchstring=Lewis%20Lapham&afid=226
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