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Summary: Ten stars and her best book
Review: I own a few of her books and this is the best in many ways. Ever wish that some financial advisor would answer your question? The question that either never gets asked or the writer runs out of space before the book is done and your question is missed?Well, this almost 700 page gem not only answers in a Question and Answer mode literally thousands of questions but does so on subjects that cover managing debt, home ownership, insurance and paying for college. To retirement concerns and stock, mutual funds and annuities. And a topic many people put off discussing, wills and trusts. You also get her newsletter FREE when you buy the book. I really appreciate her chapter on Money and Intimacy which basically covers the things that cause problems in a marriage when it comes to money. One person spends to much and one person is afraid to spend much at all. And she covers the subject of bankruptcy which is something that seems to be happening so much these days. She also discusses issues that are very 2002, like same sex unions and live in partners and how to protect ones assets. This is a good book to have in ones library and I think it is one I will be giving to my local library because it is the best on the subject in my opinion. Sort of an encyclopedia of financial Q and A.
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Summary: Helps beginning Investors
Review: Being a beginner in the investing/retirement world I really appreciated this books direct, easy to read and easy to understand approach. I was able to quickly find what related to me and what didn't.
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Summary: The best book I have read since...
Review: ..."Everything you wanted to know about Sex but were afraid to ask" some 20 years ago.And my love life is doing just great!
It is comprhensive ,it is striaghtforward It is everything the book is made out to be.
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Summary: A great start for the novice investor
Review: I've just begun wanting to learn about investing, which is only a fraction of the content contained within these pages, and a friend lent me this book to help me with a little direction. As a neophyte investor (ok...I haven't actually started yet, but my heart's in the right place), I have found this book to be somewhat of a gem. My only exposure to investors' education has been Yahoo! Finance and its various investing links, whose material is mostly disjointed and not too useful. This book, on the other hand, is rather well-organized, flows nicely from subject to subject, is comprehensive, and reads easily without being too heavily laden with detail. As such, Orman's book is intended for beginners, such as myself (what would you expect with a title "The Road to Wealth"? - it's not exactly a textbook for graduate level study in finance, nor would I want it to be). I find Orman's simple Socratic question-answer style to be a surprisingly useful tool for learning this otherwise overwhelming subject matter, and it lends to either casual bathroom browsing or more serious notetaking, and I've done both. After having read most of it, I feel less out of my element when hearing about P/E ratios or index funds, and some people think my throwing around such terms in everyday conversation makes me sound quite smart. There is a footnote, however, which took with it to the bottom of the page the fifth star, leaving just four: if this book ends up being my road to wealth, I suspect I'll barely make it out of the driveway. I will not likely build a stellar portfolio tomorrow, but I honestly didn't think I would. Orman intended this to be a primer, something with which to get your feet wet. You'll never find a book that has all the answers, and this one surely attests to that. But it's great nonetheless and I recommend it highly to the would-be wealthy who so far don't know an annuity from an alligator. Happy trails!
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Summary: A Guide most needed
Review: This book is the type that is good for someone not retired or still has the time to invest for the future. I highly recommend it to anyone that would manage his or her money wisely, particularly in order to build up an estate that would afford a financial standard that would provide a high level of comfort. I really wish that this book was in my possession some 30 years ago. The ideas of investment and spending your money is not only wise but a means by which an estate can be realized if followed. Unfortunately, there is no real formula(s) for financial success due to the unsure circumstances of life that we have little or no control over. But for anyone that would read this book and follow its precepts, the chances of financial success are greatly enhanced.
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Summary: Practical, definite, and highly accessible
Review: The Road To Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide To Your Money--Everything You Need To Know In Good And Bad Times is an impressive, encyclopedic guide to the all aspects of personal finance and financial planning ranging from advice on managing debt and owning a home, to making investments and establishing a legacy. Suze Orman style is practical, definite, and highly accessible by the non-specialist general reader. The text is layed out to be both a superbly presented and definitive introduction and then to admirably serve as a permanent, "user friendly" reference dealing with common finance concerns ranging from like calculating mortgage payments to determine nursing care reimbursements from Medic, to the pros and cons of retirement plan options. Very highly recommended for personal and public library reference collections, The Road To Wealth is also available in abridged Audio Cassete, Audio CD, and Audio Download formats.
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Summary: Too Little Information for Educated Reader
Review: This book is a waste of time for people with any modicum of savvy about their money/credit cards/home ownership/etc. I would describe it as a child's dictionary of financial terms. Enough information so that you know you need to learn more and not enough to be helpful. Don't waste your money.
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Summary: Another Potboiler written by a publicity hound
Review: Superficial. A disappointment.
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Summary: Overrated book that consists mostly of common-sense advice
Review: MUch of this is common sense, if we would only use it. My nephew, who is a twenty-year old financial graduate, knows more than this woman! The one thing that I laughed at is when she would throw hypothetical numbers in the air. For example: If you save just $50.00 a month in a cd account, at x percenatge rate, you will have x number of dollars in ten years. No kidding! REALLY?! Wow, what great financial wisdom. She is mediocre, at best. I'll pass on her infinite knowledge.
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Summary: This will do, for 2.
Review: If there's one thing we have too much of it's information about finances--millions of investors researching their stocks and mutual funds from the thousands of charts available on the Internet, the newstand, the library, prolonging the anally-retentive pleasures many of us once derived from collecting baseball cards and comparing the batting averages of our favorite players. If there's one sure way to make money, it would seem be getting on board the financial information industry. There was a time when money and finances were seen as a means to the good life; today the good life is one that offers you the luxury of tweaking your funds, stocks and finances on a daily basis. Books like Suze Orman's, then, are best seen as a refuge from information overkill, as an alternative to the prodigious plethoras of pronouncements about money coming at us daily from every conceivable source. The book is extremely user-friendly, with bold titles prefacing sections that rarely run over a single page. The advice is comprehensive, sensible, familiar--diversify, avoid loads, buy term insurance, pay off credit card debt, start your Roth, protect your home equity, do your homework (that's the only part of the book I'd regard as a cop-out). I've had many such books--by Sylvia Porter, Terry Savage, Tobias, Rukeyser, Loeb. They're good for 2-3 years, then you want to toss them aside in favor of a more current version. Right now, Orman's is the "current" version, so I bought it for my daughter, who has neither a money book nor the time to get caught up in the wild world of finance redundancy and overkill. If you want a single comprehensive reference guide about money, this one should hold you for a couple of years.
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