Donald Trump falls somewhere between “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Ben Carson resembles A.W. Tozer’s “The Pursuit of God.” Marco Rubio has a lot in common with “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” while Jeb Bush is a little simpler and sunnier — closer to “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” Marie Kondo’s tribute to decluttering.These comparisons aren’t about the candidates’ policy platforms. Mr. Trump has not advocated a great rafting trip down the Mississippi, at least not yet. They are instead based on an analysis of the candidates’ speaking styles in this year’s presidential debates, measuring both the complexity of their speech and the positivity (or negativity) of the words they use. To help make their speaking styles concrete, we compared them with a range of books, drawn from the most commonly downloaded titles on Project Gutenberg and supplemented with selections from our personal libraries.

Source: Ted Cruz as Beowulf: Matching Candidates With the Books They Sound Like – The New York Times