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3,5 stars. (I got the Finnish translation of this book because it had the best, Babylonian city cover illustration.)
This is a book of Babylonian themed stories originally available in leaflets, in banks and insurance companies of the 1920s, written by a businessman and author, living in Denver, Colorado (he was among those who suffered later in 1929). They were written as a guidance on saving, getting out of debt, and increasing wealth and property. The title story seems to have been the most popular of them.
The stories are interesting even as just stories of life in the city of Babylon, even if you don’t get much out of the advice. It was easy to read these stories quickly in just a few days. There is of course some repeat on these advices, but it doesn’t become annoying, and they are easy to understand. The last story concentrates most on the value of hard work getting one out of money troubles, which is at least partly sound idea.
For me I found these stories inspiring, even if just merely to save some money and budget what money I get. Also the wisdom of taking the chance on sound opportunities was worth noting. Of course there were more advices than these, but this is just what I wanted to make notes of.
The advice is not particularly deep, merely pushing the reader in the direction of the experts, but even this little was good advice, and the stories were entertaining, with some characters appearing in other stories (even as just persons of the past, or as ones whose writings are dug up in the 20th century). Worth checking out, in my opinion.
This is a book of Babylonian themed stories originally available in leaflets, in banks and insurance companies of the 1920s, written by a businessman and author, living in Denver, Colorado (he was among those who suffered later in 1929). They were written as a guidance on saving, getting out of debt, and increasing wealth and property. The title story seems to have been the most popular of them.
The stories are interesting even as just stories of life in the city of Babylon, even if you don’t get much out of the advice. It was easy to read these stories quickly in just a few days. There is of course some repeat on these advices, but it doesn’t become annoying, and they are easy to understand. The last story concentrates most on the value of hard work getting one out of money troubles, which is at least partly sound idea.
For me I found these stories inspiring, even if just merely to save some money and budget what money I get. Also the wisdom of taking the chance on sound opportunities was worth noting. Of course there were more advices than these, but this is just what I wanted to make notes of.
The advice is not particularly deep, merely pushing the reader in the direction of the experts, but even this little was good advice, and the stories were entertaining, with some characters appearing in other stories (even as just persons of the past, or as ones whose writings are dug up in the 20th century). Worth checking out, in my opinion.
