Learn more about the books you'll hate

04 Dec in books, databases, fun, library, social networking

Let's see if I can beat cel4145 to this one: The LibraryThing UnSuggester, a social networking tool that gives you information about which books you won't like based on the ones you do: Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its head. It analyzes the seven million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely to share a library with the book you suggest. Sounds like fun to me! Let's see what is says for Bill O'Reilly's book Culture Warrior:

Sorry. A book must be owned by at least 75 members to have unrecommendations.

Darn. Well, I guess that says something, too. Let's try Rush Limbaugh's The Way Things Ought to Be. Ah, this is a good one:

# The golden compass by Philip Pullman (expected 33.7, found 1; unsuggestions)
# The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman (expected 26.4, found 1; unsuggestions)
# Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami (expected 14.5, found 0; unsuggestions)
# Lullaby : a novel by Chuck Palahniuk (expected 12.8, found 0; unsuggestions)
# The wind-up bird chronicle by Haruki Murakami (expected 18.7, found 1; unsuggestions)
# Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami (expected 12.2, found 0; unsuggestions)
# V for vendetta by Alan Moore (expected 11.3, found 0; unsuggestions)
# The subtle knife by Philip Pullman (expected 27.2, found 2; unsuggestions)
# Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel by Haruki Murakami (expected 10.8, found 0; unsuggestions)
# Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (expected 10.5, found 0; unsuggestions)

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