Recommend any good nonphotography books lately?

For a journey into the unconscious : The Red Book / Liber Novus, Carl G. Jung. After almost 3months it finally arrived, and it's a beauty, the book being almost an object of art all by itself.

Mark, I agree with you that reading Soros and especially Stieglitz are very good choices if one wants to understand the current crisis. I'm still working on the Stieglitz committee report on "Beyond the GDP" which still needs to be followed up by initiatives by Governments and International organisations. That Phylo is referring to the recently published "hidden" writings of Jung seems somewhat over the top for most readers and surely for me, but it would be interesting to hear what he gets out of it - if he ever gets out, that is.

Mark, I guess that without the realm of photography are the books you mentioned generally in the class of non-fiction. My background as an "English" teacher tends toward fiction, or as one of my teachers put so long ago, "The lies that tell the truth." To that end I will try to seduce you away from analysis into adventure. A novelist I can't seem to tire of s Daniel Silva. He has written a series of spy/historical novels about a character Gabriel Allon, a spy/art restorer who seeks out those who have injured modern Israel, as in one case, those who massacred the Israeli athletes at Munich. He's a wonderful crafter of words, and has a vast knowledge of what he writes. That way I learn along the adventure trail. BTW do you use paper or ebooks?

That Phylo is referring to the recently published "hidden" writings of Jung seems somewhat over the top for most readers and surely for me, but it would be interesting to hear what he gets out of it - if he ever gets out, that is.

Well yeah ok, I guess it's not the kind of reading that you casually pick up at the bookstore to do "some reading in between", but there's no such thing as over the top ( in my book ) ! For me it's about "intel", knowledge, concrete and abstract idea's ( understood or misunderstood ), aligning with a certain flow of mental energy's, all to be sponged up and to be used sooner or later in the making of photographs, as just one example. And it's also just a very tactile and aesthetically pleasing book, with the illustrations and all done by Jung. Hey, I do get out sometimes, mostly when it gets dark.

Hey, I do get out sometimes, mostly when it gets dark.

I agree Phylo, reading Jung, you better wait until dark! More seriously, I agree it is an exciting book and surely worthwhile digging into. Just the fact, that there have been rumors around of it's existence since years and now finally it is out and published in all its beauty, attracts.

I'm almost finished the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, it was (is) pretty good.

I still think Aquinas's "Summa Theologica," with an unpretentious wine, is worthwhile, and gets you bragging rights with the in crowd as well. Why not Machiavelli's "The Prince. And the Pauper." Or " The Divine Comedy" by that Italian guy, whasthisname.( D.Comedy coming soon as a major motion picture, from the director that brought you "Beowulf.")

Real answer: I rediscovered, actually dug out from the dusty den, a couple dozen or more old trade paperback books that have stood the test of time and some which I never actually read and am working on now at a good price like nothing.
If you see an eBay buy on the whole series, folks,go for the whole nine yards "Time Life Reading Series " , acid free paper and all...a bargain, includes the likes of "Animal Farm"' Treasure of the Sierra Madre".... Hey that one was a major motion picture and a darn good one. Read the novel.

Correction. "Time Life Reading Program." I have seen the whole set sold by the penny a pound in lots from used booksellers, like Powell's in Portland.

"The Third Reich at War" by Richard Evans.