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Very nice unMatches. The pairing of St. Augustine's _Confessions_ with Sherrilyn Kenyon's _Night Pleasures_ evoked a guffaw, I must admit.
Posted by: andres | December 07, 2006 at 09:48 PM
Oddly enough 'Good Omens' by Pratchett and Gaiman unsuggests 'Good Omens' by Gaiman as the second book you shouldn't read.
http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester/1308109
Posted by: crack | December 08, 2006 at 06:10 AM
"The Federalist Papers" unsuggested "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Well, obviously!
Posted by: Michael Turner | December 08, 2006 at 07:13 AM
very funny: Liked "A Fire Upon the Deep"? You'll hate "Desiring God : meditations of a Christian hedonist"!
Posted by: Dennis | December 08, 2006 at 08:00 AM
crack: That's not actually odd at all, once you realize that it operates by examining people's book collections. People who own Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman are very unlikely to also own Good Omens by Gaiman.
Posted by: micah | December 08, 2006 at 08:36 AM
A pretty social-science-unfriendly bot. Neither Greene's Econometrics nor Acemoglu/Robinson returned anything.
Note, however, that the Daily Show's America (the Book) is read by atheists, apostates, and heathens.
Posted by: Adam | December 08, 2006 at 10:36 AM
"Where's My Cow" is hillarious. "Atlas Shrugged"? Hillariously awful.
Posted by: Emma Anne | December 08, 2006 at 10:42 AM
I must be very odd since I own, and like both:
UnSuggestions for The reader by Bernhard Schlink and The Harry Potter boxed set by J.K. Rowling (expected 17.2, found 0; unsuggestions)
However, I have definitely found the author I should never touch - John Piper, who is kind of my AntiChrist.
Posted by: Lilly Evans | December 08, 2006 at 04:47 PM
There are some pretty good books on the list of antisuggestions for the Pratchett book
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Out-Time-Visionaries-1900-1969/dp/0810958384
Posted by: joeo | December 08, 2006 at 09:56 PM
If you read modern British (and not so modern) "highbrow" fiction, your Unsuggestions will apparently be largely tomes on Christianity. Cases in point: Unsuggestions for Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy; Zadie Smith's White Teeth; George Eliot's Middlemarch; Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. If you read Philip Roth's American Pastoral, you are not going to own any lurid fantasy stuff, esp. stuff by one "Tamora Pierce" whom I have never heard of. I dunno how useful this is, but it's fun.
Posted by: pandarling | December 13, 2006 at 03:39 PM
Aside from the UnSuggester, LibraryThing is also a totally awesome way to catalog books and to look at other people's libraries.
Posted by: quartz | December 15, 2006 at 12:47 PM