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The Spectacle Blog
Over at the Salisbury Review I shake my head and sigh after reading Hillary Kelly’s New Republic piece about the failure of a computer program to recommend decent books to her. Strictly for kicks, I took a turn around the park with Bookish myself:
[A] search for Dostoevsky’s The Gambler returned results which included a popular fantasy novel called Knife of Dreams. As a fan of The Anatomy of Melancholy, I had Germaine Greer’s Shakespeare thrust upon me.
An internet application is severely lacking in literary taste: is it just me or is this yawn-inducingly obvious?
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C. Vernon Crisler | 2.20.13 @ 1:40PM
*Knife of Dreams* is part of the late Robert Jordan's fantasy series Wheel of Time. This series is the only truly worthy successor of Tolkien. I'm not sure why it would show up as part of a search related to Dostoevsky’s *The Gambler*. One of the main characters in Jordan's fantasy series is a gambler, so maybe that's the reason, but who knows?
wombat1| 2.20.13 @ 8:39PM
No program or app is better then its inputs and assumptions.
Garbage in, garbage out.