As you will all know, on Amazon they have a section that tells you what items people who have bought this item have also bought.
When it is your own book this is the coolest thing ever, as it gives you an insight into what other people who like your shit like.
It is like a personal shopping list.
My list has some weird shit on it (considering I am a cricket writer):
Three, not two, not one, books on Zombies. I don’t think this book has zombies in it, but it probably should. One of my new projects has a chapter called the zombies, and I recently wrote a short story about a zombie Don Bradman. The first two books are, World War Z, and The Zombie Survival guide, both written by Max Brooks, and both books I now want. The last one is The walking dead volume 9, which looks less appealing.
Season 3 of entourage. One of my favourite shows, so I can’t complain.
Adventures on the high teas. My fans are not into rock’n’roll excess, but they do like a cuppa.
Dawn of the Dumb by Charlie Brooker. I must admit I am not a huge fan of Charlie Brooker like others are, but he is a funny bastard at times, so I approve of this, even with the zombie rip off name.
Generational Kill. I haven’t read this, but I’ve seen the show, and that has some shit about it, so perhaps I should read the book.
The Wire season 2 is in there, I haven’t seen the jive talking series, but some people seem to think it is ok.
The complete Maus is a comic book about the holocaust. I’m over the holocaust, and I don’t read comics, but the cover looks very tasty.
A book called Nudge that I have never heard of and looks stupid. I don’t care what it is about, I guess self help, the only self help book I would read would be about 100 new techniques for masturbation by Salman Rushdie.
Gomorrah the mafia book from Sicily. Haven’t read it yet, but would like to see the film.
And finally and possibly most importantly, Homicide: A year on the killing streets. Which I have never read, but I believe the TV show that was made from this is still as good as any TV show ever made. The TV show is so good that I don’t think I could even handle the book. But the fact that someone has bought this book, and brought mine is something I am almost post orgasmic about as I type.
There is also a lot of cricket books picked, the funniest has to be the fact that someone bought Graeme Smith’s diary, and then my book.
Weird.