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I once bought a couple copies of a book as an inside joke for a couple friends.
It was not at all a popular book, I can pretty much guarantee that you've never heard of it or it's writer, and odds are you'd probably hate it if you did ever read it.
I think when I bought them they were going for about $5 a pop.
And immediately after I ordered them the price shot up to like $15
I can only assume that the algorithm assumed that something happened that made that book popular all of a sudden, instead of just one asshole buying a couple copies to give to his asshole friends as a joke.
Took a few months before the price dropped down again.
Was the book Ulrich Haarbürste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm?
That is not the core memory I wanted unlocked.
It’s actually one of my favorite books. Despite the title, it is shockingly wholesome and, I can’t stress this enough, it is in no way sexual or erotic in any way.
Oh I know, there's a reason it's a core memory haha.
this … sounds like the kind of reply that may be true or may result in an odd new kink.
It’s definitely both.