I keep coming back to our circ stats based book recommendations because it is an evolving system. Each month, I load new circ data into it which changes the recommendations.
After I load the data, I always spend a few minutes poking around to see if anything interesting has happened. I have a few favourite author searches I like to do to see if there are new recommendations (Paul Auster, Philip K. Dick, etc.).
This month, I noticed the link above from Auster’s Oracle Night to Michael Chabon’s The Final Solution. What I found most interesting about this is I own both those books (in fact, I think they were both gifts from Todd). Consequently, I have never taken them out from the library. Thus this recommendation (which is an excellent one in my opinion) has absolutely nothing to do with my borrowing habits. I will take this as proof the system is getting better over time. 
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Thanks for the books…
final solution is good…great period feel and a fast read. what crops up for recs for “The piano tuner”?
also, rec’ing the automatics for your listening pleasure
We don’t seem to have that book and I’ve never heard of it.
Re: automatics, any particular record?
PS: Todd was here.
try “2″ – songs like “jaded” and “smoking chinese” are really reminiscent of johnny thunders.
mason is the author, i think. it was his first work and it’s decent at being a historical work with some english romanticism thrown in for ambiance. that said, i picked up an old copy of “the tin drum” and grasse’s ability to take every possible scenario and “oskar-ize” it makes alot of other writing look mild. if you never read “the tin drum” then color your life on hold.