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Money, Money, Money
pooks | Jan 2 2007
What books on finance do you recommend? Or saving? Or spending smart? Let's talk money. I downloaded Suze Orman's "Courage to be Rich" from audible but I'm having trouble listening to it. It's starting out very touchy-feely and I guess I'm not in the mood. Some years ago I read Mary Hunt's "Cheapskate Monthly Money Makeover " which was very simple but effective in its system to get out of debt. It's out of print, but I see Mary Hunt has a lot of other books out there. That's one of the probs -- a guru comes along and suddenly there are too many books to choose from. I didn't know which Suze Orman to look at, and probably should have gone with one of the older ones instead of one of the newer (where perhaps she's looking for new ways to spin her message, instead of the basic message -- but I'm just guessing about that). So, whether it's investments or saving or getting out of debt or whatever -- what books about money have you found helpful? 31 Comments
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 I think it's true that...Submitted by pooks on January 4, 2007 - 8:58pm.
I think it's true that in any subject many of the gurus say the same things. But they communicate them in different ways, and we respond in different ways. Now that I've listened to more of Suze Orman, I realize it was probably a mistake to get it. I've seen her on PBS many times and have never wanted to watch her presentation. Listening to her voice I realized that she annoys me at some level. It's not a "right or wrong" thing. It's just something about her presentation -- the oozing sincerity of her voice -- that rubs me wrong. So what I need to do is be more careful when I listen to samples on audible, and find somebody whose style I find more approachable. In the meantime, I think there are a lot of good suggestions here and I think it's interesting that some of them seem to be consistently mentioned even though they've been around for years. » POSTED IN:
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