Lets see how good this little puppy is. I’ll enter I book I like:

Note: I covered this six months ago, this is a dupe!

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. Post-cyberpunk sci-fi, hipper than a pair of hipsters. I’d expect Gibson and other cyberpunk authors.

It came back with:

Toby’s Lie - Daniel Vilmure
Flim-Flam: The Truth About Unicorns, Parapsychology and Other Delusions - James Randi
Flow, My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
All Tomorrow’s Parties - William Gibson
Across Realtime - Vernor Vinge
The Club of Queer Trades - G.K. Chesterton
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
Creatures of Light and Darkness - Roger Zelazny
The White Road - John Connolly
Aloft - Chang-Rae Lee

That’s not too bad, I’ve read two of those, Gibson and Dick. Lets try another book.

Robin McKinley, Sunshine. Best of the modern uban vampire genre.

Thirsty - M. T. Anderson
Lives of Indian Images - Richard H. Davis
The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation - Confucius, Roger T. Ames
The Shades of Time and Memory: UK Edition Bk. 2 - Storm Constantine
Codeine Diary: True Confessions of a Reckless Hemophiliac - Tom Andrews
Into the Green: A Reconnaissance by Fire - Cherokee Paul McDonald
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Eric Schlosser
You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America - Howard Dean, Judith Warner
Far Appalachia: Following the New River North - Noah Adams
Cat’s Eyewitness - Rita Mae Brown, Sneaky Pie Brown

Only one of those comes close, Thirsty, and not real close as it is a young adult book. Pretty much a complete failure on the second go. I’ll give this a third go later and see how it goes - I’m reserving judgement right now.

OK, for the third go I pick something more commercial, Charles De Lint’s Onion Girl:

Moon Under Her Feet - Clysta Kinstler
A Treasury of Jewish Folklore - Nathan Ausubel
Beautiful as the Moon, Radiant as Stars - Sandra Bark
Redemolished - Alfred Bester
Sun, the Moon and the Stars - Steven Brust
Waifs and Strays - Charles de Lint, Terri Windling
The Wine of Angels - Phil Rickman
Alien Taste - Wen Spencer
The Wood Wife - Terri Windling
The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

Waifs and Strays is a no-brainer, after all it was the same author. I was glad to see The Wood Wife, which is a fantastic book. So it had definate two hits again out of 10, but at least these were pretty much on target.

Two runs out of three it worked OK, though not great. I’m guessing this could turn up the odd gem, but it would require a lot of follow up work on Amazon.

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