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[tree_and_leaf]

This site: http://www.librarything.com/unsuggester is quite fun. It tries to guess what books you are unlikely to own, based on one volume in your collection.

It is, however, a bit buggy - or rather, it suggests rather odd tastes among its audience. I suppose I can believe that not many people who own Cold Comfort Farm go in for evangelical 'inspirational reading', though arguably Amos is funnier if you know a bit about low church sterotypes. But while, again, it's highly unlikely that a fan of The Nine Tailors would give house room to the unspeakable Left Behind series, I do find it a tiny bit implausible that there are no Sayers fans other than me who like Harry Potter. (In fact, I know it's not true!)

But that could be a function of the people using Library Thing. On the other hand, I can't see any plausible reason why people who own the Lord of the Rings should be considered vanishingly unlikely to own The Hobbit....

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Hmm... I whacked in what I'm reading at the moment (Gulliver's Travels; teaching it) and got back a lot of stuff by a theologian called John Piper, who seems to be against professionalism in the priesthood. Which sort of figures, though I think it would only really work if Piper happens to be a fan of Robert Walpole and imposing copper ha'penny bits on Ireland as well.

Here via oursin & like your medieval and Patrick O'Brian icons.

[tree_and_leaf]

Thanks - though I can't take any credit for the Patrick O'Brian one. Come to that, I suppose I didn't actually paint Walther von der Vogleweide either, but I did make the icon...

Anyway, nice to meet you!