Dod101 wrote:
The reviewer is probably paid by someone. The book is for someone who wants to enrich the author. Please do not waste your money on it.
Just get on with life yourself!
I wouldn't dismiss investment books quite so easily Dod.
As with anything commercial, there are some real gems in the world of investment-books, and of course some real duds, but these discussion boards are often a really good place for people to help sort the wheat from the chaff.
Surely as people who spend lots of their time coming here to read and post about investment matters, we should be able to see that there is lots that we can learn from people with investment experience, especially where they focus in on specific areas that we might be interested in as individuals, and given the popularity of the FIRE topic on these boards, it's clear that this is an important subject to people, and one where those of us looking for options in this area for ourselves might seek out those who are able to express their own journey and experiences?
In earlier posts on this thread you've very eloquently expressed your own thoughts in this area and they've rightly been well received, so I'm surprised that you seem to so easily dismiss someone else's thoughts, just because they're in a position to have compiled them into a book.
People might be able to learn just as much from reading discussion boards and getting involved with conversations in these areas themselves, but sometimes it's good to have information at hand that can be read off-line and revisited at any time.
I've also found that often these books will cover areas and answer questions regarding sub-topics that we've sometimes not even really considered properly ourselves, but have been deemed important to cover by an author who often has much more experience in these matters, and who has (more often than not), been using the ideas that he's writing about to actually deliver the processes that we're seeking to do ourselves....
Cheers,
Itsallaguess