How Much Is Enough? Harness the Power of Your Money Story--And Change Your Life

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Summary: This book is more than enough!!
Review: Everyone can identify with the compelling stories Klainer shares with her audience. I found the writing easy to read and the honesty quite engaging. It is the type of book one wants to read over and over at different stages of life and I suspect new riches are uncovered each time. Great work!

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Summary: This is a VERY SPECIAL book!
Review: I started reading this book and became so involved in the process, and so impressed by the book, that I cannot recommend it highly enough. Intuitively, I have always felt that our upbringing had a lot to do with our attitude towards money. Klainer goes one step farther and asks you to look at your entire "money story"-which is your retelling of significant events in your life from the money perspective.

She offers a framework through which you can explore whether your history with or predefined ideas of money are interfering with your happiness. Klainer's writing style is special, almost completely devoid of buzzwords and jargon. The book is laid out with very short chapters with liberal use of italics for emphasizing key thoughts or notable points. This is a book you need to read now, or at least have on your bookshelf when you wonder how much longer you can keep up this pace.

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Summary: Enough Already!
Review: I want the book, but I can't read. I came on, hoping it would be on a CD, but no luck. Is there anyway you can notify me if and when it goes on a CD? Thank you.

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Summary: Now This Is A Story; In Fact A Money Story
Review: It is a rare occasion indeed when you are referenced to a newly published "finance related" book, and are both shocked and amazed to find once you dive into it that it is actually covering fresh uncovered territory. That was exactly the experience I enjoyed when I recently read Pam Klainer's new work, "How Much Is Enough". The story of The Money Story, illustrated with the use of many wonderful stories, by a gifted and talented storyteller; what a fresh, interesting way to look at the whole issue. She approaches a subject that can be taboo, bringing it out into the open. She inspires reflection, conversation and, if necessary, action, but in a subtle and guiding way. Money + Success = Happiness: An equation for life, the root of all confusion, or just a funny twist on "new Math".Pick up the book and see for yourself. Well worth the read.

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Summary: About money, comfort, and what money will bring
Review: Relationships to money define how we live our lives, yet often are not fully understood. Pamela Klainer's How Much Is Enough? is the first money book which advocates the need to understand what money means personally, before setting goals to achieve it. Chapters show how to analyze perceptions about money, comfort, and what money will bring.

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Summary: Smug and superficial
Review: This book is poorly organized and repetitive. Its tone is smug and condescending. There are some good ideas, but they could have been presented in a magazine article, not a full book.

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Summary: Enough to Keep Haunting Me!
Review: This book keeps "coming up" in my mind. It raised questions that I know I must explore. It's an easy read, made quite engaging though skillful use of real people's stories (including the author's). But it's not a simple read! It asks readers to look carefully at their own life stories, choices, intentions and meaning-making. The book equally values perspectives often seen as mutually exclusive. However, it asks us to more fully understand the implications of the perspectives we hold and the results we create in our lives out of those "stories" through which we view the world. I read a lot and almost never re-read a book or "push" others to read a particular book. With HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH, I'm doing both.

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Summary: Smug and superficial
Review: Upon the recommendation of a friend, I just read this wonderful book, "How Much is Enough?" My friend saw Dr. Klainer speak, and was so impressed that she rushed out and bought the book, and then passed the book to me. I saw myself in her book as the person who did meaningful, but low-paying work, and now find myself at retirement age, but without the means to do so. And my son has also chosen work that is low paying, probably due to money attitudes that he inherited from me. I have passed my copy on to him, and for the first time in my life, had a conversation about money with him. It wasn't easy. But I hope that it is the start for him to look at his money story as I share mine.

Beyond the personal message for me, this book is so well-written; I feel that I know the author, and would like to meet her in person, or hear her speak. She brings to life all of the other money stories that she conveys to her readers. This is a book to read many times for new insights.