LibraryThing!

[locke]

www.librarything.com

Much like Amazon.com, B&N.com and other online retailers, LibraryThing makes book suggestions for members, based on their interests. Unlike online companies, LibraryThing has begun what founder Tim Spalding called "a humorous service" named the UnSuggester that turns the algorithm of "people who read Book X read Book Y" on its head.

Some examples of UnSuggester in action, according to LibraryThing: the program has found that people who read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason likely are not fond of Kinsella's Shopaholic. Readers of The Mists of Avalon probably do not enjoy John Piper's Desiring God. Anyone with a copy of Lauren F. Winner's pro-chastity Real Sex usually doesn't have Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

[v-girl]

wow, this looks so cool! i am always looking for good book recommendations and there's not enough people to give 'em to me.

[Mahatma]

Interesting... I did an "UnSuggester" search for The Red Badge of Courage (which I hated) and a lot of cognitive and computer science stuff came up, which I actually might be interested in (and knitting, but I have no idea why nor any interest in it). Cool!

[Platypi007]

I noticed A Confederacy of Dunces in the side and clicked it and The Sovereignty of God by Pink was one of the un-suggestions. Oddly enough the guy who I borrowed the Sovereignty of God from recommended A Confederacy of Dunces to me, and I enjoyed them both.