Latest book received

[carlos marighela]

Happy birthday! Happy birthday indeed, I rarely get anything beyond socks and underpants for mine.

[Aaron]

Thanks. I did also get socks, but somehow I resisted the urge to post about them. 

[Hammers]

Thanks. I did also get socks, but somehow I resisted the urge to post about them. 

Hey, we need a Latest Sock Received thread!

[carlos marighela]

It would be flooded with sock puppets. Alas I could also see it becoming a forum for articles on conversion. "How to Look Bigger in the Modelling World using a pair of rolled up argyle pattern socks" etc etc.

[carlos marighela]

Be fair, the lad was no doubt English and may well have never seen a 'hot' beach in his life.

[carlos marighela]

I suggest as an act of charity that you track the poor sod down and send him a pair of these:

http://www.loja.havaianas.com.br/sandalias/masculinas/c1578+c1582+p1.html

This year they even made a pair with 'England' on them and the flag of St George for the World Cup. No point reinventing the wheel.

http://www.surfdome.com/Havaianas_Flip_Flops_-_Havaianas_Team_England_Flip_Flops_-_White/Blue-30379?source=webgains&siteid=33417&_$ja=tsid:13932

[Aaron]

More birthday loot received on Friday. I now have the two latest Alatriste translations ("Pirates of the Levant" and "The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet") along with volume one of Jack Gill's "1809, Thunder on the Danube" and a reprinted copy of "Under the Maltese cross, Antietam to Appomattox: the loyal uprising in western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865". The last is a sort of regimental history of the locally-recruited 155th Pennsylvania regiment, but as the title implies it goes into detail about much of the region's involvement in the ACW.

[traveller]

MAA 398 The Texan Army 1835-46 - I was happy to find images of Texas troops wearing the leather cap used during the 2nd Seminole War = Finally a reason to buy some of the 40mm HLBS figures I have been drooling over  Unfortunately I can no longer find them on the HLBS webpage 

[Mancha]

My mother brought an entire stack of Ellis Peters books on a recent visit, and I'm currently on the fourth one.  These are mysteries set in 1100s England and Wales.  The Poirot of the series is a Benedictine brother named Brother Cadfael.  I'm not into this period at all, but the books are delightful, given the author's character development and abaility to paint a scene.  I thoroughly recommend them to anyone into Medeival Europe.

[Aaron]

Cadfael is excellent. There is a version done for TV starring Derek Jacobi out you might like to watch. Our library has the full run, but you can probably get them on Netflix, etc also.

[Poiter50]

Osprey Fortress Spanish Main

[elysium64]

Inspired by LAM's Ratnik Stalker Post Apoc range, I bought and read "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, an excellent book, wiith some interesting ideas, I am waiting for the "Stalker"  movie by Andrei Tarkovsky on DVD. Also thinking of getting "Metro 2033" by Dimitry Gluckhovsky, anyone read it?

[Andy0476]

Found this today:

looking forward to reading it, should provide some inspiration too I think!

[myincubliss]

Also thinking of getting "Metro 2033" by Dimitry Gluckhovsky, anyone read it?

Yep, fun little read, crap ending though

Latest book received is the Osprey Imperial Chinese Armies (1) that I ordered in February or March, which turned up out of the blue at work the end of last week...

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Inspired by LAM's Ratnik Stalker Post Apoc range, I bought and read "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, an excellent book, wiith some interesting ideas, I am waiting for the "Stalker"  movie by Andrei Tarkovsky on DVD. Also thinking of getting "Metro 2033" by Dimitry Gluckhovsky, anyone read it?

Roadside is THE book amongst all that Stalker novels, read it being 17 and never forget that feeling.

Metro 2033 is quite good with tons of good ideas, have-to-read, but how myincubliss said, the ending is rather disappointing.

I've got the new Murakami book, that's why I didn't manage to release new LAM figs yesterday, can't stop reading, it's one if his best.