Favorite title: In Search of Lost Time. Clicking on one search result, "In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete) by Marcel Proust," leads to "Remembrance of things past [sic] by Marcel Proust; French title: A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu," which, in a way, already is a recommendation. The different titles indicate different translations/translators, so if I'm looking for In Search of Lost Time I'm not necessarily looking for C. K. Scott-Moncrieff's early translation Remembrance of Things Past.The "LibraryThing Recommendations Machine" produces very obvious results like Proust biographies, books by Proust contemporaries, but also recommendations that seem far-fetched at first, like The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, or Leonard Woolf's autobiography. Hitting the "see all recommendations" button, of course, immediately explains the connection.
The LibraryThing tags, e.g. "20th century french literature" are much broader and more general than Cruzcat's very specific subject heading "Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Translations into English"
I like this site a lot. I'll definitely be back for more.
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