Tuesday, October 28, 2008

My Barnes and Noble

So I went ahead and tried it, put in 5 titles as favorite books and lo and behold I got absolute crap back as recommendations. Out of the 12 books they recommended 5 of them were titles by the same author...as if I wouldn't read other things by an author I liked. I put in Atlas Shrugged, The Eye of the World, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, The Romonov Prophecy, and The Lightning Thief. The recommendations I got were: two different editions of Fountainhead, Anthem, the Stand, Catcher in the Rye, another edition of Atlas Shrugged, The smithsonian guide to birds (WTF?), the 2009 complete Runner's day by day Log engagment calendar (yeah cause that has anything to do with what I put in), a CD version of Lord of the Rings that runs $100, On Beauty, the Ladies of Grace Adieu, and the Trudeau Vector. What absolute garbage, what possible reason do they have to recommend two of the same version of not just one book but two books. And I think I am quite capable of reading the remaining books by an author I liked. How about giving me an opportunity to read an author I may not have known about based on my responses. Only one book in that whole list fit that profile so I guess it wasn't a complete waste but still...The Smithsonian guide to Birds?!?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Yet another reason for me to dislike Barnes & Noble.