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Tangential: has anyone found anything that doesn't completely suck for recommending books? Goodread's recommendations are terrible.
by peteretep 9y ago
Tangential: has anyone found anything that doesn't completely suck for recommending books? Goodread's recommendations are terrible.
- treehau5 9y agoAmazon tends to recommend things I like and the majority of the purchases have been because of their recommendations (good job Amazon, your software is doing it's job, raising sales). I think books and music are different though. Books have well defined categories. If I buy a pop-psych book, say "Blink", and then I am recommended "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" it's pretty much going to be very likely I buy that too if I am interested in that subject. If however I want recommendations for new Metal music, and my previous selection was Metallica then you play me some Megadeth, I am going to hate it and not be interested in it at all!
- mordredklb 9y agoAgreed. "Oh, you like Horror? Have you heard of Stephen King?" I've completely given up on goodreads for recommendations and just google "best <insert genre> books 2017" now and usually can find some good lists.