I’ve ranked about 500 as well and I also think the recommendation system sucks. The most common explanation it gives for a book recommendation is that I’ve added some other individual book. I would want it to give me recommendation based off of multiple books based off of what people on the site who also liked those same books also liked. It also almost never updates.
In descending order (reviews on Goodreads):
Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity
Hoffer, The True Believer
Huxley, The Doors of Perception/Heaven and Hell
Montfort, 10 Print Chr$(205.5+rnd(1)); Goto 10
Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Good, Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and Its Applications
Out of curiosity—you’ve ranked a lot of books on Goodreads. How well does its recommendations algorithm work for you?
Terrible. Their search is also pretty bad (colons, for some reason, are magical characters that make perfectly spelled titles match nothing at all).
I’ve ranked about 500 as well and I also think the recommendation system sucks. The most common explanation it gives for a book recommendation is that I’ve added some other individual book. I would want it to give me recommendation based off of multiple books based off of what people on the site who also liked those same books also liked. It also almost never updates.