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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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The prevelance of the Books about the Bible as unsuggestions for almost anything I put in, other than Lewis, certainly suggests that there are a lot of fundies out there who don't read anything outside their own particular ghetto. Personally, I see nothing contradictory about reading the Bible and Pratchett.

I stuck in 'Witch Wood', in the hope that it would UnRecommend Calvin's Institutes, but alas it doesn't have enough readers to produce unrecommendations, though it did spit out a Member Review, which described it as about a pastor trying to protect his Protestant congregation against witchcraft, which is - almost sort of true, except it's really about how religious extremism, especially of the perverted Calvinist variety, corrupts.