I stumbled across the website Storycode yesterday and it may prove to be an excellent source of recommendations for my future reading.
StoryCode.co.uk is a unique source of inspiring book recommendations and a great way to find the next book to read. And its power comes from the collaborative passion of readers.
Users of the site are asked to code the books by answering several questions using a sliding scale system i.e. is this book humorous or serious or somewhere in between. Then a profile of the book is built and can be compared to theirs in the database to find similar books.
So by looking at The Confusion by Neal Stephenson I saw that the book Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas was similar and liked what I read about it.
Modeled after the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, but with a verve all its own, this debut mystery introduces a likable pair of sleuths and explores the Jewish quarter of Victorian London.
And promptly purchased it from Amazon.co.uk
We’ll have to see how this works out once I’ve read the novel, but I’m intrigued by the idea of Storycode.
Tags: books, Neal Stephenson
