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Dec 19, 2012 10:56AM
Welcome everyone!!!! BE RANDOM
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This group is mainly for random polls, but all randomness is appreciated.
I've recently become fascinated by Goodreads' "Explore A Random Book !" feature. I find that about 40% of the books it sends me to explore tend more toward the obscure or bizarre than the random. I have yet to read any of these books, so I am literally judging them by their covers (or at least, their titles). I like to "explore" about a dozen books and decide which five I am least likely to read. This is not necessarily a judgement on the books contribution to literature or the betterment of mankind, but is just as likely a statement of my own lack of interest or just outright ignorance of the topic. My most recent dozen random exploration has brought me to the following five books that I fear I may never get to (and I do apologize for the title of #1, freedom of the press and all):1. Stoopud Fucken Animals by Joel Horwood
2. Position Space Calculations of Two-Nucleon Spectral Functions in Nuclear Matter at Finite Temperatures by Joseph Allen Crow
3. Terrific Sex in Fearful Times by Brooks Peters
4. Sour M.A.S.H. at Sea by Walter "Bud" Stuhlreher
5. Phenomenologie Der Phenomenologie : Systematik Und Methodologie Der Phenomenologie in Der Auseindersetzung Zwischen Husserl Und Fink by Sebastian Luft
At first, I was a bit concerned that these recommendations were somehow being generated by my reader profile, but I've come to appreciate that they are probably among the most random and therefore refreshing "exploration" left on the internet - a sort of last frontier of book recommendations.
I highly recommend this exercise to anyone interested in seeing how small their own scope of interest is in the infinite cosmos of books.



