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Confess the first things you bought from Amazon:
My first order was Dec 1, 1998, and I bought Katherine Neville's A Calculated Risk, which was fun and entertaining but not as good as The Eight (alas, her next book, The Magic Circle, was a flaming pile of poop, and I have not heard good things about A Calculated Risk, which I believe is a sequel to The Eight.) I also purchased TPratchett's Soul Music.
Followed that up with another order on Dec 21:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pameladean's Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary and Diane Duane's The Book of Night With Moon.
I still remember feeling so excited about Amazon - all these books out there that I could never seem to find in stores even though we were in a major metro area! All mine for the click of a button! My third order got even more diverse - a book on Commedia del'Arte, Steven Brust's The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, a Steeleye Span album just because one of my favorite authors who I had just encountered on the internet liked them a lot!
That was another thing - the fact that all these authors I admired from a distance were now suddenly, strangely, within touching distance, and that was so strange, like an actor you idolized moving in next door to you.
My first order was Dec 1, 1998, and I bought Katherine Neville's A Calculated Risk, which was fun and entertaining but not as good as The Eight (alas, her next book, The Magic Circle, was a flaming pile of poop, and I have not heard good things about A Calculated Risk, which I believe is a sequel to The Eight.) I also purchased TPratchett's Soul Music.
Followed that up with another order on Dec 21:
pameladean's Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary and Diane Duane's The Book of Night With Moon.I still remember feeling so excited about Amazon - all these books out there that I could never seem to find in stores even though we were in a major metro area! All mine for the click of a button! My third order got even more diverse - a book on Commedia del'Arte, Steven Brust's The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, a Steeleye Span album just because one of my favorite authors who I had just encountered on the internet liked them a lot!
That was another thing - the fact that all these authors I admired from a distance were now suddenly, strangely, within touching distance, and that was so strange, like an actor you idolized moving in next door to you.
