Favorite Animal Fiction: Not Precisely a Bug, but an Irritant
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1waltzmn
This month's List of the Month is "Favorite Animal Fiction." Most people have been putting in recent books. My list is... different. I've thought of four books so far. Three are problematic:
The Nun's Priest's Tale (the story of Chaunticleer) by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parliament of Fowls by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Owl and the Nightingale (Middle English, author unknown)
(My fourth book was Watership Down, which didn't pose a problem.)
The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of the Canterbury Tales, and is almost always (and properly) found in that book. The usual place people find the Parliament of Fowls is in a collected works of Chaucer. And The Owl and the Nightingale -- when I pulled that up, I got a bunch of different editions, usually not of that book alone (see the one in the link above, which is to a Penguin anthology; every other book listed when I tried to link is either an anthology, or criticism, or a modern translation the validity of which I cannot vouch for).
The effect of this is to bias the popularity counts for my three stories, especially for the Nun's Priest's Tale, which is one of the most popular items in a popular book but which is not popular in isolation. Possibly this doesn't really matter, since it appears that I am the only one who cares about my books :-), but perhaps it would be worth considering basing popularity in part on the books in which a story is included, not just the popularity of individual stories.
The Nun's Priest's Tale (the story of Chaunticleer) by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Parliament of Fowls by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Owl and the Nightingale (Middle English, author unknown)
(My fourth book was Watership Down, which didn't pose a problem.)
The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of the Canterbury Tales, and is almost always (and properly) found in that book. The usual place people find the Parliament of Fowls is in a collected works of Chaucer. And The Owl and the Nightingale -- when I pulled that up, I got a bunch of different editions, usually not of that book alone (see the one in the link above, which is to a Penguin anthology; every other book listed when I tried to link is either an anthology, or criticism, or a modern translation the validity of which I cannot vouch for).
The effect of this is to bias the popularity counts for my three stories, especially for the Nun's Priest's Tale, which is one of the most popular items in a popular book but which is not popular in isolation. Possibly this doesn't really matter, since it appears that I am the only one who cares about my books :-), but perhaps it would be worth considering basing popularity in part on the books in which a story is included, not just the popularity of individual stories.
2kristilabrie
Thanks for the feedback! As you mentioned, this isn't a bug, but perhaps you could copy and paste this over to the Recommended Site Improvements Group as a request?
