Axis & Allies

Being half-off Saturday, this shouldn’t have still been on the shelf for only six bucks. I have no idea how to play it, but couldn’t pass it up, the topic is great for a game. I also have RISK, which I also haven’t played before.

I also saw a new version of Stratego, which, in order to enhance the realism, added hot babes, who of course would have helped Napoleon win at Waterloo. Just a little tiny bit of historical revisionism added to enhance gameplay.

Time/Life Reprinted Classics

I didn’t know this for a long time, but select Time/Life sets continued by reprinting books that were referenced in their content. And they did a great job, too, with leather covers, gilded pages, quality paper, and so on.

I don’t come across them very often, so when I get a chance, I pick them up!

I only have two of the World War II books, but I have a decent number of the series on Epic of Flight, The Civil War, and The Old West. I think I have maybe 30% of all four of these reprint sets, so there is a way to go! (And yes, I put the two Eldorado books together after this photo was taken!)

Beep… Thump… Beep… Thump… Beep… Thump…

Another reason to dislike those resellers (Do you see… it?) that go through every single book at the thrift store so that the selection isn’t as good as it should be.

They have these scanners and they quickly scan every single book, with a “beep” and the sound of the book being shoved quickly back into place. Over, and over, and over… with every book in the store, while actual book people are trying to concentrate on the books for sale.

This guy didn’t put each book back where he found it, everything was askew. My guess is that this isn’t a book-reading kind of guy, he’s just there to fill his online store, or is working for someone else.