📚 9 Books mentioned in "You’ve Never Seen Writing Visualized Like This — Michael Dean" of How I Write

So, that's a book by Christopher Alexander in uh 1978. And basically it's him trying to map the universal patterns across all of architecture. So he has 253 patterns.

Michael Dean mentions Christopher Alexander's book "A Pattern Language" as the inspiration for his essay architecture framework, describing its purpose and structure.

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So you have uh consider the lobster, David Foster Wallace, 2003, and then uh shooting an elephant by George Orwell.

Michael Dean mentions David Foster Wallace's essay/book collection "Consider the Lobster" when comparing it to George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" as examples of essays analyzed in his framework.

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There's a funny example where someone used AI to rewrite Paradise Lost, a classic, you know, epic poem, and then they had AI judge the two, and one was slop, and it preferred the slop.

Michael Dean mentions "Paradise Lost" being rewritten by AI as an example of AI's current lack of judgment regarding quality, noting AI preferred the "slop" version.

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Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.

Michael Dean mentions Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" as an example of a title with good phonetics.

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Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.

Michael Dean mentions Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" as an example of a title with good phonetics.

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Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.

Michael Dean mentions Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" as an example of a title with good phonetics.

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So you have uh consider the lobster, David Foster Wallace, 2003, and then uh shooting an elephant by George Orwell. I think it's 1936.

Michael Dean mentions George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" when comparing it to David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" as examples of essays analyzed in his framework.

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Another fun fact is uh Howard Ror the character in Ran's novel Fountain Head is based off of Franklin Wright.

Michael Dean mentions Ayn Rand's novel "The Fountainhead" and its character Howard Roark, noting the character is based on Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Hunter S. Thompson rewrote every single word of The Great Gatsby so I could feel what it was like to write a great novel.

Michael Dean mentions Hunter S. Thompson rewriting "The Great Gatsby" as an example of mastering the basics by mimicking great works.

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