Librarything has an UnSuggester, shows you books you don’t want to read based on your reading habits. So if you’ve read Fruits Basket, you don’t want to read Sartre, Aristotle, Karl Marx, or Grisham.
I wonder if the unsuggestion data for comics and manga is a little skewed, because I only use LibraryThing to keep track of graphic novels, knitting books, and YA books. So I’ve actually read some of the things on the unsuggestion list but because I haven’t entered those books into my collection there is no way for librarything to know that.
TangognaT
Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y.
November 13th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
librarything unrecommendations
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3:54 am on November 16th, 2006 1
[...] The UnSuggestor recommends books you should avoid based on books you liked. (via Tangognat) I entered one of my favorite books, Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and was told to avoid books by Tamora Pierce, C.S. Lewis, Tom Clancy, Robert Jordan, EB White, Douglas Adams and Ronald Dahl. I’m a bit surprised by the last three, especially Adams and Dahl. I wouldn’t consider either a feminist like Weldon, but I’d expect both writers’ sense of humor to work for She-Devil fans. [...]