[Loci]

Vorhaus is a writer first and a player second as opposed to many of the other books out there. His strength, as such (imo) is that he describes things in a way that other non-players will understand and respond to. His stories are fun, his advice is actually fairly solid, and they do a fair job of relaying the basic messages. His theory is no where near the complexity of a 2+2, but that's also why I categorized it as a pre-novice book. It's an easy read.

He actually made a few practical points that I still use today, several years later. One suggestion is to find a "magic" word that you train yourself to say when you're getting your nutz kicked in... figuratively and literally. He uses the spanish word for enough, which sounds elegant to him, and when he finds that he's getting beaten to a pulp, he finds himself muttering it and that's when he leaves a table...
Another good point for the average pre-novice is that if you could have a genie grant you an extra ten grand in winnings or ten grand less in losses which would you prefer? doesn't matter, because ten grand is ten grand, either way. Its a cute way to put detrimental losses in perspective. Nothing too fancy, but it works for the new neubies.
Cheers,
Eric