The Unsuggester
Tired of the usual recommendations of the form "If you like X then you will like Y" ? - then perhaps you should try the UnSuggester.
The UnSuggester turns the typical recommender on its head. Enter
the name of a book and recommends book that you are least likey to want to read. Here are a few tries:
- Critique of pure reason by Immanual Kant - my unsuggestion is Confessions of a shopaholic.
- My Life by Bill Clinton - my unsuggestion is Don't wast your life by John Piper
- Diplomacy by Henry Kissenger - my unsuggestion is Thud by Terry Pratchett
- Little women by Louisa May Alcott - my unsuggestion is Smart Mobs: the next social revolution by Howard Rheingold
- JavaScript : the definitive guide by David Flanagan - my unsuggestion is The sisterhood of the travelling pants by Ann Brashares
So if you just read a clunker and you are trying to purge your mind of the drivel, use the Unsuggester to find the book that is as far away from the offender. You can read more about how the UnSuggester works in this blog post at the LibraryThing blog.
The UnSuggester is a fun project put together by LibraryThing LibraryThing is "an online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, you can also use LibraryThing to find people with similar libraries, get suggestions from people with your tastes and so forth."