Monday, November 03, 2008

More science shows Ayers wrote Barry's book

When, however, Yavelow compared Obama’s Dreams with Bill Ayers’ memoir, Fugitive Days, he found the similarity of the two books “striking.” He then quickly corrects himself: “’Striking’ is an understatement for the relationship FictionFixer uncovered between Fugitive Days and Dreams From My Father.”
For instance, Dreams averages 17.61 words and 26.48 syllables for non-dialogue sentences. Fugitive Days averages 17.62 words and 26.27 syllables.
Another example is what Yavelow calls “attributions”—e.g., he “asked,” she “said,” they “wondered.” Some authors use as few as three. Many use fewer than twenty. Dreams, however, uses 36; Fugitive Days 34, and with only four exceptions—three of these used only once—the two books use the very same attributions.

[Ace]

5 comments:

Stephanie said...

Maybe they had the same composition teacher at Columbia...

Stephanie said...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5063279.ece

Stephanie said...

Part of the nonsense here is that Dreams and Fugitive Days are both memoirs. That's why Dreams is written in the first person. Audacity of Hope, in contrast, is a policy discussion book -- so of course there's more passive voice than in Dreams.

Anonymous said...

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/andersen_book_blows_ayers_cove.html

Stephanie said...

Unless he IDs sources, this doesn't have much credibility, if you ask me.