The first thing you bought from Amazon
May 4th, 2010 | Tags: adorno, amazon, mahler, music | 4 Comments
Several writers I enjoy (e.g. Meghan McArdle and Joseph Bottum) have been posting about the first order that they ever placed at Amazon.com. Since I’m on a first-name basis with my UPS guy, I thought it would be fun to do so myself.
Unfortunately, the first book I ever bought from Amazon is pretty embarrassing: on March 1, 1998, I bought a translation of Theodor Adorno’s Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy. I had hoped that Adorno’s interpretation of Mahler’s oeuvre would prove useful for some research I was doing at the time. It did not.
(The first audio recording I bought from Amazon was this Norman/Boulez recording of Bluebeard’s Castle.)
What’s the first thing you bought from Amazon?