Sure it's "discreet"
Monday, December 17th, 2007 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoAmazon.com's recommendations are terrible. I know I've talked about this before (People who own a PS2 also bought outdoor grill accessories), but it bears repeating. The recommendations are terrible. And yet... I can't stop looking. It's like watching a really bad, bad movie with a group of friends where you spend the entire moving completely trashing it. The recommendations are often so inexplicable that you can't help but click the next button to see what else it's going to cough up.
One of the books that often come up in the recommendations is Discreet Young Gentleman. Now I would not recommend clicking on that link at work or in a crowded computer lab. However, for those of you who have some privacy, go ahead and click.
The absolute irony of putting that title with that book cover is just amazing. When I think "discreet young gentleman" I picture some dashing guy from the Regency era dressed up in his finery, standing a little too close to the rake his sister is marrying or possibly a British navy officer from the Napoleonic war period back home from see his family casually touching the sleeve of his best friend for a little too long.
What I don't see is a "package" that's as big as the guy's head. Good lord. Let's hope he's the one on bottom or the other guy isn't going to be able to walk straight for a month. There's nothing discreet or gentlemanly about that cover. Then again, maybe that's the point.
Only reason I keep it on my recommendations page is every time I see it, I dissolve into laughter. It brightens my day. Though sadly, it seems to have fallen off in favor of 20 million books about cartography.
As a side note, I kept typing "discrete" into the Amazon search agent and wondered why I couldn't find the book. A long, hard look at the results full of mathematical books finally clued me onto the fact that I was using the wrong word. ^_^;
One of the books that often come up in the recommendations is Discreet Young Gentleman. Now I would not recommend clicking on that link at work or in a crowded computer lab. However, for those of you who have some privacy, go ahead and click.
The absolute irony of putting that title with that book cover is just amazing. When I think "discreet young gentleman" I picture some dashing guy from the Regency era dressed up in his finery, standing a little too close to the rake his sister is marrying or possibly a British navy officer from the Napoleonic war period back home from see his family casually touching the sleeve of his best friend for a little too long.
What I don't see is a "package" that's as big as the guy's head. Good lord. Let's hope he's the one on bottom or the other guy isn't going to be able to walk straight for a month. There's nothing discreet or gentlemanly about that cover. Then again, maybe that's the point.
Only reason I keep it on my recommendations page is every time I see it, I dissolve into laughter. It brightens my day. Though sadly, it seems to have fallen off in favor of 20 million books about cartography.
As a side note, I kept typing "discrete" into the Amazon search agent and wondered why I couldn't find the book. A long, hard look at the results full of mathematical books finally clued me onto the fact that I was using the wrong word. ^_^;
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Date: 12/18/07 02:07 am (UTC)