This book is more a collection of empty platitudes (and generous whitespace) than any kind of substantive guide to improving your photography. Truly, it's not about photography -- or even the art of seeing -- at all. Not even any pictures. Sheesh. See "Tao of Photography" by Gross & Shapiro instead -- it's fully of nicely reproduced classic images that are well chosen to illustrate the (much more substantial) points made in the text.

I'm really disappointed about this book. I am already a photographer, an admirer of the zen life style (a very humble practitioner), and of course a reader of books about these themes. I expected this one would be a further motivating lecture to increase my horizons, but... This is a real example about how words like "zen", "open mind", "satori" and so on, can be poorly used, trying to capture readers through a beautiful title and a promise of taking pictures with "the mind's camera". First of all, the author says in the Introduction: "I understand that my message will only be heard by those people who are ready to listen and those who already know. For those who do not listen and will not know, read on with an open heart". A serious author can not condition readers from the very start. At the end of each book, each reader will take hia/her own conclutions. My heart was open, and I am a guy who like to learn of each and every little things. But it is not enough to write a few words in a white background to make it sound something "humble" or "zen". Employing the words of the Masters, does not make anyone a Master, and this book is not the exception. It could have as much as twenty pages, considering that the same ideas are repeated once and again along the one hundred pages. "Trying to be one with..." is as nonsense as "¡Be spontaneous!". Maybe the intention was good, but sometimes a Professor of Communications can teach a lot from the silence.

Granted the area of partnership taxation and S corp taxation are confusing, this book is actually even harder to understand and follow than the actual code section itself. The organization of the book is hard to follow. In programming terms, it's like a spaghetti. Links point to everywhere of the code section but does not follow a logical pattern. You're better off reading the internal revenue code itself.

I would have rather received We Serve; A book of the Lions Clubs instead of The Lion of Wall Street. I guess when the sale is farmed out, sometimes the results aren't so good.