Building Your Financial Portfolio on $25 a Month (Or Less)

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Summary: extremely practical
Review: I found this book to be a practical handbook for the average person to take their future finances in their own hands and simply do something for themselves without long and tedious information or classroom situations. It is necessary for all people to be responsible for their financial future reguardless of their current status and this book is the one which walks it's talk.

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Summary: Horribly written cynical book full of misinformation
Review: It's true that this book does include some decent basic investing advice. Unfortunately the writing is so disjointed, condescending, and, honestly, just plain BAD that you might not make it that far. It is also full of advertisements for their other books. It truly scares me that Mrs. Christensen also teaches a class on how to write and publish books.

I can sum up the semi-useful parts of the book and keep you from the cynicism, misinformation, and bad writing that fills the rest of the 138 pages:
1) Use common sense to pick a stock to buy. Buy stock in a big company that you know and that produces things that we can't function without (necessities).
2) Do some research about long-term trends of the company.
3) But the stock directly through the company (if possible) and invest in a Dividend Re-Investment Program (DRIP).
5) INVEST CONSITENTLY, invest for the long term, and increase the amount you investment over time if you can. (This is probably the only REALLY useful thing the book says.)
6) Pay your taxes.

If you still find yourself drawn to this book, skip to page 71 ("How to find the right stock"). If you start there and take everything with a grain of salt at least you'll be bypassing some of the worst parts of the book and skipping to the (very slightly) meatier section.


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Summary: Everyone Should Read This Book
Review: On the back of the book there is a quote, "Everyone should read this book." It's true, EVERYONE should. Concepts simple to understand for the beginning investor or for an experienced short term investor who wants to start looking farther down the road.

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Summary: Simply the best investment book yet!!!
Review: This book really teaches you have to invest with a small amount of money. It explains how to do it in simple terms that can be understood by anyone and best of all it works.