Idiotic advice from Amazon.com
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Amazon’s suggestion robot is getting nuttier. Looking up Malcolm Lowry’s novel Lunar Caustic I was advised that I might want to buy Sodium hydroxide (available in drums). Looking up a political cartooning book entitled Pen Pals I was invited to search for my “soul mate.”
Richard Evans Lee • May 03, 2003 • Reader, what do you think?
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