It Pays to Talk: How to Have the Essential Conversations With Your Family About Money and Investing [ABRIDGED]

Rating:
Summary: Same Old Same Old
Review: I wanted to write a review of this book and when I saw it has dropped to 100,000 on the Amazon.com list I wondered what is the point. Nobody will ever seee it.

So if you happen across this review, this is my thinking. Without Schwab's name this book is dead. It is okay, but nothing special. It covers the basics of planning, but so what. There are a zillion books that do.

Leaves me underwhelmed.

Jack in Toronto

Rating:
Summary: A Helpful Book
Review: I was always afraid of investing. This book is a great guide. It does a wonderful job of demystifying money issues that always have intimidated and scared me. A friend of mine recommended this book (her book club is reading it). I've read some of it out loud to my husband. We've talked about things we should have discussed years ago. It's an easy read, and a necessary one (at least for me). FIVE STARS ALL THE WAY!!

Rating:
Summary: The silver is buried in the backyard.
Review: The airline stock information is in your grandfather's wardrobe. The coin collection is behind the Meow Mix on the back porch shelf. Your older sister is going to stab you in the back. Your brother's neurosis may be an act. You're a good kid, but you won't pass "GO." Better make your own money.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Review: The authors make many good points about the need to have
conversations with your family about money and investing.

However, the book includes far too many personal stories of random people and in particular of the Schwab family.
The information is not particularly interesting or pertinent.