/Agyar/ is definitely one of my favorites... I was always amused by the fact that the only calendar date used in that entire book just happened to be my birthday. Majikjon "Louis Eastman" <almagaiz at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 05/15/06 02:16 PM To "Davdi Silverrock" <davdisil at gmail.com> cc Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> Subject Re: Brokedown Palace I believe there isn't a single use of the word vampire in the whole book. On 5/15/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/15/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: > > > > Well, that was just a guess based on the fact that many of the other > books > > have gotten new covers on re-release (Agyar, Gypsy, TRiH, etc). > > /The Gypsy/ has its original cover art, and so does /Cowboy Feng's/. > But the other two do have very different covers, as does /The Sun, the > Moon, and the Stars/. > > Apropos of Amazon, I see they have a new feature - a concordance (100 > most common words), and text stats. > > For example, /The Gypsy/ has 97,036 words (9,035 words per dollar), > and rates 79.7 on the Flesch Index (whatever that is - I suppose I > could look it up). The most common word in the book appears to be > "Stepovich" (497 times), although "gypsy" and "coachman" also appear > to be rather common. > > /Agyar/ is notable for how bland all of the most common words are. > > In TRiH, "Satan" (490 times) beats "Yahweh" (461 times). Heh. >