Something's broken with Amazon recommendation system. To fix it, at least for book lovers, Amazon purchased GoodReads, a community of people passionate about books. Book lovers also discover books, recommend them and discuss them in book clubs, creating a lot of very useful data in the process. In one swift move, Amazon got itself a rich repository of information that comes very handy with tailored book recos. Expect some very, very good suggestions from your Amazon account soon.
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