Have a bit of fun on a cold December day...

[anghara]

You could waste a pleasurable hour or so finding out which books you would not like, based on the books which you DO like.

I have to say I was particularly tickled by the juxtaposition of Bill CLinton's "My Life" in the IF YOU LIKE THIS column with something vaguely Christianly apocalyptic entitled "Don't Waste Your Life" in the YOU WON'T LIKE THIS column.

There are other similarly serendipitous pairings.

Go look.

(yeah, so I'm being silly on the internet in the aftermath of completing my edits. So...?)

Comments

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it does seem prejudiced against Christianity. If I tell it I read Diana Wynne Jones, it unsuggests all kinds of theology (some of which I have actually read!)

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Funny thing. I plugged in my favorite "you wouldn't think I'd like this book" book -- Burnett's "A Little Princess", and #15 of the anti-suggestions was Lakoff's "Metaphors We Live By". The funny thing is that "Little Princess" is one of my favorite story-structure examples of the application of metaphoric "moral accounting" in fiction -- which, of course, I was introduced to in Lakoff's metaphor class.