Dozen Books For You

Recommendation example

Yet another weekend project. For some time I was looking for a good recommendation engine for books. I tried a lot of them, and none could give me even distantly good results (I did not feel like trusting recommendation above). So I decided to write my own. Some technical constraints that I wanted to be satisfied:

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The Adventures of Alice Holmes: Sherlock in Wonderland

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"Alice was beginning to grow larger again, and she thought at first she would get up and leave the court; but on second thoughts she decided to remain where she was as long as there was room for her.

'I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.'

'All right,' said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.

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Nice try, guys!

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