Thinking Statistically - Uri Bram
Nice little stats book - easy read for the layman
The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky
Like it so far but a bit of stuff about poker variants I don't play
I have another Paulos book which I haven't read yet - A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.
If you thought the Silver book was daunting don't bother with the Taleb ones!
A few other titles that I have read in a similar vein that you may enjoy Tarpon (in order of goodness):
The Signal and the Noise - Silver
Innumeracy - Paulos
Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan - Taleb
The Drunkards Walk - Mlodinow