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I was interested in this, but my 3 runs in their recommandations engine were almost complete failures. Their author list is plagued with homonyms.My first sear
by idoubtit 2y ago
I was interested in this, but my 3 runs in their recommandations engine were almost complete failures.
Their author list is plagued with homonyms.My first search had Dostoievsky in my 3 favorites. He was then recommended twice to me. It seems there are 7 distincts transliterations of his name.
Then I put 3 Italian novelists as favorites, starting with Curzio Malaparte. I was first recommended a Scandinavian poet. Other recommendations had 2 poets and one philosopher. Overall, nothing useful: either known, or definitely not for me.
My last run had 3 Russian classical novelists as favorites. The recommendations were a bit better, with two authors I'll try to read. There were obvious errors, like recommending Anrei Platonov then Andrey Platonov. And I really don't understand why I was recommended most of them, like Guillermo Cabrera Infante, or David Foster Wallace.
BTW, the site "doesn’t harvest your data" but their links to booklists are blacklisted by UBlock as adware sites.
- righthand 2y agoIf you go to the gnod homepage, you can see the literature map and it will maybe answer some of your questions. Sounds like you got 2 new recommendations at least already though.