Good Debt, Bad Debt: Knowing the Difference Can Save Your Financial Life

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Summary: Best Personal "How To" Book I've Ever Read!
Review: Bought Jon's book on Friday and read it this weekend, cover to cover. What a gift he has! I absolutely loved it. I only wish this book had come out years ago. There are so many concepts that I am going to put into practice to better my financial position.

I'm going to buy two more copies: one for my daughter and one for her fiance (since they're not in the same town right now) with the instructions to read it from cover to cover and then talk . . . alot. I don't want them making the same financial mistakes I made and already I see that happening. Part of the "me now, right now" generation!


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Summary: Great book, must read for anyone... well Anyone at all.
Review: First of all I don't own this book. I just skimmed through it today at a brick and mortar store. I was very pleased to see some one had written down many of life's lessons that I've been learning the hard way. I make $35k a year and feel like a slave. And that I am, a slave to my past spending habits. Fortunately I am only 29.

Despite the fact that I've already learned the hard way many of the lessons in this book, I still really enjoyed it as it confirmed many of the observations I've made about where my spending habits came from and the criticisms/cynicisms that I've formed of the advertising industry and our consumer culture in general. He uses great imagery, a rare and invaluable talent. Yes, we are very much like cows being milked for all we're worth by greedy executives. However we are not really cows, so we have a choice of whether to be milked or not.

I only regret that the author did not realize these insights 10 years ago (before I had entered the job market). But such is life! There is a lot in here that is central to the pursuit of hapiness, which I gather many people, like me, have backwards. I am defintely one of the people whom he identifies in the book whose possesions own the person instead of the other way around.

Perhaps it is a little too revealing as I put it back on the shelf after skimming it, knowing that it would still be there whenever I decide I want to part with some cash to give it a permanent space on my own personal bookshelf. (I say that toungue in cheek)