![]() On July 19, she filmed herself opening her most recent Amazon package, which turned out to be a copy of Bill Cosby’s 1992 musings on youth, “Childhood,” and posted it on Twitter. She began to anticipate receiving wrong books. Once again, she did not receive “187 Men to Avoid” but, this time, “The Ghost Light” by Fritz Leiber. She ordered the book on AbeBooks, a subsidiary of Amazon. Gordon, who lives in California, did not give up. This order, too, was canceled and refunded. She ordered a copy from a different seller. She paid a seller for the book, and a few days later received a refund and an email explaining that the book did not exist in the seller’s inventory. Having struck out twice on Amazon, Gordon tried eBay. This time she received Elizabeth Taylor’s 1988 dieting memoir, “Elizabeth Takes Off.” She forgot about it for about a year and then went on Amazon and ordered the book again. But when she opened her mail, Gordon realized that the wrong book had arrived (“Heretics of Dune,” a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert).
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