Getting Started in Options Book

I have written elsewhere about the bitter despair I typically experience upon reading books about option trading. Between the arcane language and silly references to the proud Greek nation they can be exercises in frustration. Nonetheless sometimes someone - in this case Michael C. Thomsett - writes something that ascends from sub literate garble into understandable prose. His work is well organized and takes you in a linear fashion through the basics on call and puts, then long call and puts and then short calls and puts. Yes, he does go into the more complicated stuff for those so inclined but most of this book can be read by most of us.