Amazon Suggestions

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Amazon's "Customers Who Bought Items in Your Recent History Also Bought" listing for me today includes on of the greater spreads of subject matter that I've encountered yet recommended for me. The ten 'pages' of recommendations include:

Mythical Beasts of Japan Koichi Yumoto
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West Victoria Glendinning
Orlando (Annotated): A Biography ›Virginia Woolf
Home Made Summer ›Yvette van Boven
A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside ›Susan Branch
Muse of Fire John Scalzi
The Carpet People Terry Pratchett
Anthology of Chinese Literature Confucius
POLPO: A Venetian Cookbook ›Russell Norman
Demons from the Haunted World ›Yoshitoshi Taiso
Gardening at Sissinghurst ›Tony Lord
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter ›Diana Souhami
The Mac + Cheese Cookbook ›Allison Arevalo
Deborah Harry Platinum Blonde Cathy Che
Shadows Robin McKinley
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie
The Serpent of Venice: A Novel Christopher Moore
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides ›Adam Nicolson

Amazon really, really wants me to buy Vita Sackville-West today. I've got a number of her books recommended.

Comments

[movingfinger]

Vita S-W is of limited utility nowadays IMO, I'd check those out of a library first. More interesting as a historical approach in a particular place and time.

These lists would be more fun if they included non-media items as well, such as a plumber's snake, shoes, a RAM upgrade, a carton of Toblerones, and ecologically correct upholstery cleaner.

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The "Customers Who Viewed Also Viewed" on non-book items just doesn't have quite the same cachet, either. That list on my Sentinels of the Multiverse order from earlier this week is full of expansion packs for SotM instead of fun extras.

[kore]

The ten 'pages' of recommendations include:

Mythical Beasts of Japan Koichi Yumoto
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West Victoria Glendinning
Orlando (Annotated): A Biography ›Virginia Woolf
Home Made Summer ›Yvette van Boven
A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside ›Susan Branch
Muse of Fire John Scalzi
The Carpet People Terry Pratchett
Anthology of Chinese Literature Confucius
POLPO: A Venetian Cookbook ›Russell Norman
Demons from the Haunted World ›Yoshitoshi Taiso
Gardening at Sissinghurst ›Tony Lord
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter ›Diana Souhami
The Mac + Cheese Cookbook ›Allison Arevalo
Deborah Harry Platinum Blonde Cathy Che
Shadows Robin McKinley
Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie
The Serpent of Venice: A Novel Christopher Moore
Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides ›Adam Nicolson


Well, wow.

[chomiji]

I'm readng Ancillary Justice now, and it's great.