What the Dog Saw: and Other Adventures - by: Malcolm Gladwell (2009)

This is a collection of intellectual (i.e. intelligent) articles written by Gladwell for The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1996. Several of the articles are very interesting, but of particular note is the one called "Dangerous Minds: Criminal Profiling made easy", in which Gladwell does a good job discrediting the FBI's behavior analysis units for the quackeries they are, and why.

A Stolen Life: A Memoir - by Jaycee Dugard (2011)

The story of an eleven year old girl who is kidnapped and held as a sex slave for eighteen years. I got this book for research into the character, Philip Garrido, who kidnapped Jaycee. I thought he'd be the right "psycho" for a story I'd like to write someday, not about a psycho, but about a "John-Walsh" character who incounters a psycho like Garrido and learns from him that they aren't so different.

Heart Shaped Box - by Joe Hill (2007, Fiction)

Joe Hill is the pen name used by Stephen King's son. As a writer he is okay, but nowhere near as good as his father. Maybe in time he will get better, but I still think he should get off his father's shirt tail and find his own bliss (as Joseph Campbell might say).

Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics - byNick Herbert (1993)

In case you didn't know, modern physics has been faced with a perplexing enigma concerning the clearly established effects that human consciousness has on the result of completely scientific experiments for the last 100 years or so (ever since Einstein, and far more so since). This book addresses the mystery in a methodical scientific way, but only manages (in my opinion) to step around the blaring truth: that consciousness comes before matter!

A Father's Story – by: Lionel Dahmer (1993)

A surprizingly well written account of Jeff Dahmer's father's experience of his son's rise to infamy. This book did not get the public attention that it probably deserves. Recommend to me by a friend.

Just After Sunset – by: Stephen King (2008)

A collection of entertaining short stories that was a welcomed birthday gift from a silly-girl friend of mine.

The Seat of the Soul – by: Gary Zukav (1989, 2007)

Zukav mirrors much of what I have written in the „Fifthnail Exposed” blog, though he obviously does a much more coherent and readable job. I was only a little surprized to find many of „my own ideas” in this book, but as Zukav points out, they were never really MY ideas to begin with (which I have been saying all along).