Friday, August 23, 2013

Some More of Harriet's Favorite Words

More of Harriet's favorite stock phrases (as of August 8, 2013 -- I'm updating my data set but it takes more than 4 hours to run ARAT and export the text of 29,162 "reviews").

More Readers and Fans

readers will appreciate 1,220
readers will enjoy 2,081
fans will appreciate 1,412
fans will enjoy 3,257
action-packed, readers will relish 6
hooks the audience 260
hooks the reader 87

Making Something Innocent Seem Creepy

Note to Harriet: the following two words do NOT mean the same thing.

entreating 75
endearing 126

More "Sub-Genres"

futuristic science fiction 52
cozy 628
cosy 25
chick lit 495
zombie 552
vampire 4,027
paranormal 2,131
shifter 471
ranch romance 72
wounded warrior 47

Harriet Does Abbreviations

BDSM 102
PTSD 132

Some More Words I Don't Think Harriet Really Knows the Meanings Of

segue 102
metaphysical 74
ironic 955
irony 135
cardiac arrest 36

When the Quote Generator Gets Stuck

Note: Often paraphrased.

"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie." -- H. Rap Brown 6
"Never work with animals or children." -- W.C. Fields 8
 
Pace and Intensity Descriptors

Note: Some of these appeared in the last post with hyphens.  But Hattie isn't that consistent with hyphens, so I searched again without.

fast paced 112
action packed 282
faster than the speed 75
never slows down 1,401
never decelerates 47
leisurely paced 25
leisurely-paced 15
frantically paced 1
frantically-paced 1
slow paced 7
slow-paced 5
high octane 31
mayhem 89

Don't Spoil the Ending...

superb finish 7
great ending 9
fabulous climax 8

I Don't Think That's What Raymond Chandler Had in Mind...

middle boiled 2
medium boiled 2
noirish 3
nourish 24
hard boiled 54
hard-boiled 36

Harriet, the Atmospheric Scientist

stratosphere 28
stratospheric 97

The "All-Purpose" Word

Does it mean a couple?  A short story in a collection?  A single volume from a series?  Or ALL THREE? 

entry 1,949
entries 526

A Few More Hattie Specials

Note: By chance, some of the "years old" might be right.  But not very many of them.  Also, "character driven" and "fully developed" appeared in the last post without hyphens.

murdered corpse 78
years old 2,593
years old daughter 217
years old son 133
fully relish 77
character-driven 67
fully-developed 5
armchair 113

A Couple that Defy Categorization

lampoon 202
fjord 6
exhilarating 1,194

And, the Dirty Stuff You Were All Really Waiting For

scrotum 3
banana 28
cherry 29
banana sandwich 2
man meat 5
hardened sword 1
gonad 2
douche 7
suck 236
tup 8
tongue/tonguing 232
tingle 13
wet dream 23
anal 13
dick* 29

*Search was case sensitive to avoid reference to people and/or characters named "Dick."

Sunday, August 18, 2013

SOMETIMES IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT

I was feeling sad and lonely last night. I decided to put some "Best of the Partridge Family" on the 8 Track and surround myself with my favorite things. Life is better now!

I cuddled with my favorite plush "bed buddy"

Put on my favorite matching t-shirt...


And drank my favorite beverage (with a little help from my friends)...


Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Some of Harriet's Favorite Words

The following are counts of words from all Harriet's reviews associated with her current "reviewing" account on Amazon (as of August 8, 2013).

We have the ubiquitous fans and readers:

Fans: 13,163
Readers: 13,925


Sometimes they're motionless, though:

Still fans (no comma): 398
Still, fans: 41
Still readers (no comma): 153
Still, readers: 17


Sometimes other things are motionless, as well:

Still: 8,107

Except when they're "fast-paced" or "action-packed."

Fast-paced: 4,283
Action-packed: 1,875 

A couple of other overused adjectives:

Entertaining: 3,380
Exciting: 4,091
Engaging: 2,170
Terrific: 3,891
Fantastic: 622


We have the occasional personal pronoun/reference:

I: 1,290
Me: 779
My: 700

This reviewer: 480

A humorous malapropism:

Opening gamut: 60

Werewolf (shifter) genetics:

Lycan: 130
Half-breed: 191
Hybrid: 244
Purebred: 170


Some favorite SUB-GENRES:  

Sub-genre: 2,064
Amish: 305
Second chance: 1,004
Police procedural: 1,879

Thriller: 9,240
Heated romance: 38
Amateur sleuth: 1,954


Couple of F-bombs:

Fraud: 208
Fake: 264


A handful of terms essential to any literary critic (not):

Support cast: 1,483
Fully developed: 1,048
Character driven: 1,172

Grips the reader: 157
Grips the audience: 572
Rotating perspective(s): 77


Everybody's favorite condiment:

Relish: 1,937

A few more "Hattie Specials."

Over the top of: 407
Twist(ing): 2,261
BFF: 544
Tweener: 203

Tsuris: 82

A derogatory term for people with mental disabilities:

Retarded: 12 

A fecal fixation:

Shit: 13
Sh*t: 34

And then THIS STUFF:

Lower head: 56
Third leg: 14
Penis: 53
Vagina: 15

Cunt: 3
Blow job: 3

XXX: 29

Monday, August 12, 2013

Fun with ARAT, Part One

As of August 8, 2013:

Harriet Klausner had posted 29,122 reviews.

Of the books reviewed, 408 were Amazon Verified Purchases.

104 were Vine books.

The average length was 245.8 words.

The most common word count (mode) is 275.

The shortest was 39 words.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R174DJP0L5SKRI

The longest was 604 words.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RMWHG6XRZD5E4

The most helpful had 11 of 1 helpful votes.  That's 1100%!

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3GT17VWY21QS3

And the least helpful (not counting reviews with no votes) has 6 of
320 helpful votes.  That's 1.9%.

http://www.amazon.com/review/RNJNRX1TA698C

Average helpful votes per review is 3.84.

Average unhelpful votes per review is 1.40.

The review with the most comments:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R324XQY4Q6U7Y1

39,646 comments have been posted.

21,094 reviews have no comments at all!  (Let's get cracking, folks.)

The date with the most reviews posted is Halloween 2004 (that's the
infamous "140-review-dump" day).

1-star reviews: 0
2-star reviews: 3
3-star reviews: 81
4-star reviews: 10,356
5-star reviews: 18,682

Average star rating is 4.64.

Thursday, August 1, 2013

These stats can also be found on Ammy right here. That is, if Ammy hasn't ax'd 'em yet.

Date Fake Reviews . Avg YTD Votes . Helpful . % . Not Helpful . % . Relish . Fans . R ank . AVP's . Vine's . VPR . HVPR . NHVPR
Jan 2012 …. 214 6.90 6.90 1044 506 48% 538 52% 25 2555 …. 873 …. 3 2 4.88 2.36 2.51
Feb 2012 …. 203 7.25 7.08 …. 599 423 71% 176 29% 16 2555 1053 .. 11 1 2.95 2.08 0.87
Mar 2012 …. 219 7.06 7.07 …. 730 509 70% 221 30% 17 2555 1069 …. 3 0 3.33 2.32 1.01
Apr 2012 …. 195 6.50 6.93 …. 730 514 70% 216 30% 15 2555 1077 …. 9 0 3.74 2.64 1.11
May 2012 214 6.90 6.92 …. 733 485 66% 248 34% 17 2555 1075 …. 4 0 3.43 2.27 1.16
Jun 2012 …. 189 6.30 6.82 …. 646 374 58% 272 42% 20 2555 1069 …. 7 1 3.42 1.98 1.44
Jul 2012 ….. 215 6.94 6.84 …. 617 358 58% 259 42% 22 2555 1106 …. 7 6 2.87 1.67 1.20
Aug 2012 213 6.87 6.84 …. 583 310 53% 273 47% 12 2555 1200 …. 4 2 2.74 1.46 1.28
Sep 2012 200 6.67 6.82 …. 460 246 53% 214 47% .…. 9 2592 1266 …. 9 1 2.30 1.23 1.07
Oct 2012 …. 229 7.39 6.88 …. 590 290 49% 300 51% 23 2606 1375 …. 6 2 2.58 1.27 1.31
Nov 2012 117 3.90 6.61 …. 199 .…. 94 47% 105 53% 12 2617 1463 …. 4 0 1.70 0.80 0.90
Dec 2012 ….. 72 2.32 6.25 …. 277 106 38% 171 62% ….. 3 2633 1666 …. 5 1 3.85 1.47 2.38
Jan 2013 101 3.26 3.26 …. 259 …. 129 50% 130 50% ….. 9 2651 1735 …. 3 1 2.56 1.28 1.29
Feb 2013 ..… 91 3.25 3.25 …. 155 ..… 91 59% ….. 64 41% ….. 7 2666 1779 …. 2 2 1.70 1.00 0.70
Mar 2013 ….. 87 2.81 3.10 …. 150 ….. 93 62% ….. 57 38% ….. 9 2681 1805 …. 6 2 1.72 1.07 0.66
Apr 2013 ….. 99 3.30 3.15 ….. 108 ….. 61 56% ….. 47 44% …. 16 2688 1851 …. 3 4 1.09 0.62 0.47
May 2013 ….. 120 3.87 3.30 ….. 102 ….. 38 37% ….. 64 63% ….. 18 2695 1929 …. 3 3 0.85 0.32 0.53
Jun 2013 106 3.53 3.34 116 62 53% ….. 54 47% 13 2703 1962 …. 3 5 1.09 0.58 0.51
Jul 2013 ….. 93 3.00 3.29 ….. 140 96 69% ….. 44 31% 18 2712 1989 …. 0 2 1.51 1.03 0.47