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I think that we should have a group vs. goodreads contest. people who've read books from a thread here should read books goodreads recommends based on the books/authors and see if the group is better

that would be wonderful. i made one request from goodreads.com, and no one ever responded, so so far, this group is winning.

where do you find the GR recommends at? oops, i found it. man, they even recommended stuff to me from my "Couldn't finish the book because it was crappy" shelf. hah. i will look into jasmine's suggestion, sounds interesting

yeah, we should do this. i love the idea, bit going by people's shelf names is tricky. i would love to start a discussion here.

http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30...

karen wrote: "http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/30..."

karen, those people seem like creeps 8~O
hah

karen wrote: "yeah, we should do this. i love the idea, bit going by people's shelf names is tricky. i would love to start a discussion here."

right I mean I don't want to read books because they are japanese, it only works with my british and american shelves currently.

i am still excited about this recommendation thing, if it can actually work, you know? i think part of the problem is that it doesn't factor in when someone read and rated a book. i mean, how could it? but i think i would be less likely to give 5 stars to the little gymnast if i read it now, than as a memory of it having been one of my favorite middle-reader books.

and it definitely has comical responses to bookshelves with less straightforward names like "history." i went to see the recommendations it gave for my "my biggest fear" shelf, which is of course for books about twins. but the algorithm couldn't figure that out, obviously.

i was pretty disappointed with their take on my byron shelf. only one or two were actually about byron, and i already own them both.

The recs for some of my bookshelves are so off the mark - they'll never get THOSE right. My "brrr" shelf has books taking place in cold climates. Forget it! The goodreads recs are way off the mark. The Portable Beat Reader?

My "Yr-Family-Is-Fcked" shelf, which should be self-explanatory to human-beings (your family is f*cked, book character!), is another shelf that this service will never "get." Meet Kirsten: An American Girl. I can't imagine her family if f*cked.

hahahh that one is the best!! poor poor kirsten!!

Meanwhile, I have found some good recs on Karen's "Shh-Family-Secrets" shelf. They fit into my "Yr-Family-Is-Fcked" shelf nicely...

This one is kind of funny... My "ladywriter" shelf has just one criteria(um?). (I bet you can guess what it is!) It has 23 recs by male authors.

hahahah boooo, goodreads.com, boooo

That goodreads thingy keeps recommending me books based on books I deleted from my shelves (I deleted them because I didn't like them so I didn't finish them)....but for some reason that computer thingy remembers those books, and keeps recommending me stuff based on nonexistent stuff I used to have. Isn't the artificial intelligence supposed to be "superior" to us poor humans?

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the thingy, the thingy can be helpful, but this is more fun.

I have very straightforward shelf names, but it basically just recommended the most popular works in those genres to me, which is useless because of course I've heard of those books and chosen to not read them.

Eg, fantasy = Game of Thrones, Name of the Wind; mystery = Mistress of the Art of Death, etc.

so I just looked at what goodreads had listed as my favorite genres:

christian and young adult were included...

contemporary and crime were not...

it's like goodreads hasn't even met me.

I just looked at this for the first time, from my DFW-Inspired shelf goodreads thought to recommend me a Richard Perez novel. I hate that tool.

hahahaahahaahha of all people!! i love that!

For awhile my favorites shelf was spawning a bunch of childrens books recommendations. I have my childhood favorites on a different shelf entirely. I'm still trying to figure out why it thought I would like Make Way for Ducklings based on a shelf full of Kundera, Tolstoy, Tim O'Brien, etc. Then again, I do love that book...

Does it keep recommending different editions of books you've already read to anyone else?

because make way for ducklings is the shit and anybody who doesn't like it should die.

but for serious, it keeps recommending me kids books too, something about grasshoppers by the Caterpillar guy.

I fully agree with your first statement. They should die.

Apparently my library sciences shelf screams PNR

take as needed?

hmm?

Denae wrote: "I fully agree with your first statement. They should die.

Apparently my library sciences shelf screams PNR"

from what i have seen in library school, that is all any of them read, so it might be more accurate than you know!! but i do not want to give the computer that much credit.

um, what's pnr.

I was joking around, it's what they call tylenol at my job which means "take as needed"

Oh, paranormal romance

Karen, do you really mean to tell me I'm still going to be the odd one out once I manage to find a way to afford library school?

welllll, as long as you read a healthy dose of YA, you should be okay. when i was reading proust, i got a lot of suspicious looks...

So I should get Joyce and his ilk out of the way now?

I love joyce. *cuddles with ulysses*

yeah, unless you want people to think you are a booksnob! get started on those shapeshifter romances!

Jasmine wrote: "I love joyce. *cuddles with ulysses*"

*this is why there is a rumor going around that I'm a spy*

Well, I have Finnegan's Wake on deck next month and I just finished Gravity's Rainbow. Granted, I also have a thing for Regency romances, am reading my way through Harry Potter, and have recently been lured into a paranormal romance series centered around a half-human, half-vampire redhead.

Oh, and

Denae wrote: "Well, I have Finnegan's Wake on deck next month and I just finished Gravity's Rainbow. Granted, I also have a thing for Regency romances, am reading my way through Harry Potter, and have recently b..."

ah. I have read the first chapter of that book 15 times, we're still dating :P

It's a challenge, so that gives me incentive. If I read the entire book in the month of November, a friend will watch The Room. It's the first Joyce I'll be reading too. Hooray for the deep end.

is that a movie of the donoghue book?

Oh no. I mean this. It's apparently nigh unwatchable. I've actually agreed to watch it with her. There will be large quantities of booze involved. I've not seen any of it. She's seen part of it and refused to watch further. Hence something like Finnegan's Wake being required in exchange.

it is on my netflix queue, but i am apprehensive.

The Room! The classic work with the passion of Tennessee Williams! "You. are. tearing me apaaaat stella lisa!"

This movie needs to be shown in theaters more often.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plz-bh...

There's a theatre in Los Angeles that does a midnight showing every Friday.

see! I'm glad to know somebody has the proper respect.

Sparrow wrote: "see! I'm glad to know somebody has the proper respect."

Err, or he pays them? There are billboards for it all over the city. The Room and Angelyne. Sometimes I miss living there.

Yeah, either way. He has a message that must be laughed at.

Come December I will have this experience.

I will not be sober either during or after.

Nor should you be.

I've been told that both sobriety and drinking games are to be avoided with this thankfully unique work.

None of the books recommended to me from my Foxes shelf had a single fox on the cover of them. Stupid goodreads program.

Greg wrote: "None of the books recommended to me from my Foxes shelf had a single fox on the cover of them. Stupid goodreads program."

stupid goodreads

i have not had a chance to see of the recommendations feature has gotten better. has anyone else?

I've not look in a few weeks. It was slightly less insane, but still getting some bizarre recommendations at that point.