Saw this suggested by the econ. blogger Megan McArdle, whose concerns are usually beyond the scope of the Hungry Ghost Blog:
Next time you're on Amazon, check back through your orders and look up the first book you ever ordered.... Surprised?
My first order (in the fall of 1997) was for two books: The Evelyn Waugh/Nancy Mitford letters and the first volume of Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond chronicles.....
Surprised?
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
What was your first?
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Uh...no.
September 1, 1998: Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, by Stephen E. Toulmin
February 16, 1998
The Expert at the Card Table, Artifice, Ruse, Erdnase
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, Jean Hugard
League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
Card Manipulations, Jean Hugard
The Penquin Atlas of Recent History: Europe Since 1815, Colin McEvedy
Pick a card, any card.
Amazon came late either to Canada or to my consciousness, or both:
March 26, 2004:
* My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable (David Rees)
* My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable (David Rees)
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