<story><title>Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber</title><url>https://abooklikefoo.com/escape/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lambdatronics</author><text>I think it works:  I put in &amp;quot;Zero to One&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;The Idea Factory&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&amp;quot; -- one of the top results was &amp;quot;We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.&amp;quot; This was reviewed on Amazon as &amp;quot;Not For a White Male Forty-Year-Old Software Engineer.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;customer-reviews&amp;#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&amp;#x2F;ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ASIN=1101912197&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;customer-reviews&amp;#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&amp;#x2F;re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kace91</author><text>The problem is, there&amp;#x27;s a line between &amp;quot;things I don&amp;#x27;t consider because they&amp;#x27;re out of my comfort zone &amp;#x2F; I don&amp;#x27;t even know they exist&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;things I don&amp;#x27;t consider because I consider them to not have quality&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;You give me a novel from a niche author from the middle East, I&amp;#x27;m game; you give me a cash grab book signed by a teen youtuber and I&amp;#x27;m probably out.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure this site can tell the difference.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: An anti-book recommendation tool, to help you escape your echo chamber</title><url>https://abooklikefoo.com/escape/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lambdatronics</author><text>I think it works:  I put in &amp;quot;Zero to One&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;The Idea Factory&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo&amp;quot; -- one of the top results was &amp;quot;We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.&amp;quot; This was reviewed on Amazon as &amp;quot;Not For a White Male Forty-Year-Old Software Engineer.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;customer-reviews&amp;#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&amp;#x2F;ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;ASIN=1101912197&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;customer-reviews&amp;#x2F;R1WB4G83DRI8PV&amp;#x2F;re...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Bodell</author><text>I tried various combinations of the books I’ve read over the last couple of years[1]. And either I got stuff already on my bookshelf or sphere of reference[2], or a lot of Calvin and Hobbes (seriously every result had at least one, sometimes several), or children’s books, or adult comic books. Which I guess is by some definition the opposite of adult novels. But a fun and interesting tool to play around with either way.&lt;p&gt;[1] Underworld, Blood Meridian, The Bluest Eye, Milkman, Pale Fire, Borges, etc...&lt;p&gt;[2] Chekhov, Ursula Le Guin,  Proust, Umberto Eco, etc.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I scrolled down and read the creators summary of how the search works. And now believe my results really nailed his description: rarest but highly rated by readers of the same books. Which also explains all the Calvin and Hobbes, which I think have a universal appeal.</text></comment>