Amazon Recommendations
I occasionally browse through the list of things that Amazon seems so keen to recommend to me, although I have yet to buy something based on Amazon's recommendation alone. The strangest one so far this year is a DVD of Outnumbered, Series 1 (a BBC TV Comedy series), which is apparently based on my purchase of a CD of Roxana Panufnik's choral work*. A close second is a recommendation of a book of knitting cartoons because I bought Pamela Dean's Tam Lin. Invisible Cities seems to prompt books on the design of living spaces and common objects, while an audiobook series on the history of music (bought as a gift) apparently goes well with books on modern economics and books by Alan Bennett.
Of the more promising suggestions, does anyone have anything to say on the subject of:
Welcome to Mali, Amadou & Miriam (Music CD)
The Merchant Princes series, Charles Stross
Various Paul Temple novels by Francis Durbridge, read by Anthony Head (BBC Audio CD)
Tinselworm, Bill Bailey (Comedy DVD)
Cuilidh, Julie Fowlis (Music CD)
Ethiopiques, Various Artists (Music CD)
The Nightrunner series, Lynne Flewelling
You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katharine Harmon
The Void Trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton
The Kit-Kat Club, Friends Who Imagined a Nation, Ophelia Field
Stealing Light, Gary Gibson
Nu Med, Balkan Beat Box (Music CD)
Spook Country, William Gibson
*Which I recommend to anyone interested in reasonably melodic modern choral classical music. She's not my favourite modern choral composer but I do like her Westminster Mass, written for Cardinal Basil Hume.
Of the more promising suggestions, does anyone have anything to say on the subject of:
Welcome to Mali, Amadou & Miriam (Music CD)
The Merchant Princes series, Charles Stross
Various Paul Temple novels by Francis Durbridge, read by Anthony Head (BBC Audio CD)
Tinselworm, Bill Bailey (Comedy DVD)
Cuilidh, Julie Fowlis (Music CD)
Ethiopiques, Various Artists (Music CD)
The Nightrunner series, Lynne Flewelling
You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katharine Harmon
The Void Trilogy, Peter F. Hamilton
The Kit-Kat Club, Friends Who Imagined a Nation, Ophelia Field
Stealing Light, Gary Gibson
Nu Med, Balkan Beat Box (Music CD)
Spook Country, William Gibson
*Which I recommend to anyone interested in reasonably melodic modern choral classical music. She's not my favourite modern choral composer but I do like her Westminster Mass, written for Cardinal Basil Hume.