Trillionaire Next Door: The Greedy Investor's Guide to Day Trading

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Summary: If it sounds too good to be true--go for it!
Review: If you want to make someone happy, give them this book. The distilled yet rapid-fire wisdom Borowitz offers will be handed down for generations to come: How to trade in your sleep, how to understand the insider lingo that fancy Wall St. people use to exclude regular people, how to use a dartboard to pick stocks, why it's best not to know what the companies you invest in actually do....I've made gifts of this book to financiers and regular human beings and they all find it sidesplitting. Given the direction the market seems to be going, we all need a good laugh, and this is it. The book comes with upgrades: I logged onto [their] site and have been delighted to get breaking news bulletins about Greenspan's magic coin, Bill Gates' gift of a clock radio to the Department of Justice, etc.

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Summary: Freakin' funny!
Review: If you're a serious investor who values common sense and research, then this is the book for you. If not, then this is the book for you. From the moment I opened this book, I was laughing hysterically, and I hadn't even read a page. Once I actually started reading, I was practically crying! Thank you Mr. Borowitz!

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Summary: I Laughed Until I Guffawed
Review: Isn't it wonderful, that we can laugh at ourselves? No, it's wonderful that we can laugh at Andy Borowitz. Even if you're not a millionaire--not that I know anyone who isn't--Andy makes not being rich almost palatable. Money is the scariest subject on earth, but this guy for once allows us to scare it back. As for the "sexy" part, I wouldn't know.

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Summary: Enough time wasted, don't waste yours.
Review: Ordered the book. Sorry I did. Read the first 4 chapters. Sorry I did. Browsed the remainder of the book. Sorry I did. Returned the book. Glad I did.

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Summary: A great investment!
Review: The best investment advice you can get is to buy this book and read it instead of worrying about all those 16-year-olds whose stock options are worth more than the GNP of Portugal. It's hard to be funnier than the real traders, with their theories based on random walks, dartboards, hemlines, and the World Series, and it's even harder to be funnier than watching people lose money on flyer stocks with cute names like boo.com and Crazy Eddie, but this book makes it and then some, with completely hilarious discussions of making a stock go up by yelling at the screen, getting good investment advice (and a Big Gulp) at the 7-11, finding the right asset allocation model (don't forget the importance of lotto and combing the beach with a metal detector), and the crucial role of pizza in a day-trader's diet. The comparison of Adam Smith and Willow Bay, the description of Warren Buffet, "the myth of knowing what a company does," and some really wonderful graphs and charts are not only wildly funny, but .... amazingly insightful. This book is right on the money.

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Summary: dull and boring
Review: There are better joke books out there. None of the jokes in this book were orignial or witty. I couldn't stop yawning. By page 50 I fell asleep. Not worth the money.

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Summary: A WEALTH OF JOKES
Review: This book did not make me rich but it really made me laugh! Borowitz manages to write more hilarious jokes per page than any writer I know of. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. (I'd rather be rich, though)

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Summary: Suitable for the absolute dummy
Review: This book is full of primary-school garbage. Stupid things like 'draw a dartboard, throw a dart and whatever the dart lands on, buy the stock', and if the numbers are green then that means the stock went up, if they are red it means they went down.. (really sherlock?!). The book is the size of a small crib, and even so the amount of space there is in the book.. just a mistake buying this. Other reviews mention this is a really funny book, but if you like poor puns, and if you have a good education, then the 'jokes' have the effect of 'right... ookaayy' well, it's up to you.

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Summary: I loved the book and I am an actual millionaire.
Review: This book is really hilarious. Let me tell you the funniest jokes in it: Page 1: lines 3, 11, and 47; Page 2: lines 1, 9, and 33; Page 3: lines 14, 27, 39... oh hell, just buy your own copy.

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Summary: Forget about buying this book.
Review: This book was the worst investment of my life. Borowitz is not at all funny. It didn't even make me smile. This book is a waste of ink and paper and it's contents at the very least are downright stupid. A ten year old child has better humor. Save your money and read the daily comics, you'll be better off. I wanted to rate this book with no stars, but this form requires that field to be rated.