If you wanna live the gooooood life and your parents aren't willing to give you a small loan of a million dollars..... READ. THIS. BOOK.

This book’s greatest strength also happens to be somewhat of a weakness. Chilton’s financial tips, framed within dialogue, are easily digestible and accessible, but because they are framed in dialogue, what could be summarized easily in a page takes a whole chapter.

As a financial novice, I found this book quite helpful and practical, despite the often unnecessarily protracted dialogue. As a lover of quality literature, I found this book quite horrendous. But I won’t be so petty as to go on and on about adverbs and the jarring insertions of the author’s voice in the present tense and all that—it is, after all, a book about financial planning.

The jokes are so extremely bad. But at the same time that is why they are funny.

Solid advice, but not much information I didn't already know. I also found the narrative format irritating at times, and some of the dialogue is dated.

You can google the financial advice, which I would argue is pretty good, but the book has little boys club sexisms throughout that make you feel like you're not in the same class of people as those that are able to save 10% of their income. I get why it's popular. Look up a summary.

Dated. Good for SUPER beginners. Essentially says, "pay yourself first". 10% or more, and then find a good investment vehicle for it.

Why do so many nonfiction financial guides need to be wrapped in a fictional parable?

If we look beyond the corny setup, we find antiquated ideas about women and boring stereotypes.

This book has no answers for people with inconsistent jobs like contract employees, independent contractors, or anyone without nearly lifetime employment or a successful business from the start. If you have student loan debt or medical bills, this book will be useless because nothing goes wrong for the fictional characters once they start following the advice they are given. Tom’s rental property goes great. The narrator has no worries about paying for the birth of his baby. The sister has a successful business that seems to never fall on hard times.

This book has the usual advice in a condescending tone. You can find better.

Bad jokes and good financial advice go a long way to making me enjoy a book and this had both. By now the book is probably a little dated for some of the advice but really there are important principles that are timeless, the first being that I should have started investing ten years ago. Ah well. Really this book is a nice short read and serves well as an entertaining primer to financial planning. Probably much of the advice is common knowledge and the toughest thing is making the first step to put it into practice.

This book is phenomenal, It’s really your go-to guide on financial planning, organization and beginner level investing. It really prepares you for life. Written in a novel format, the reader is provided with an easy to understand explanation on topics such as: insurance’s,tfsa ,RRSP, mutual funds , stocks , mortgages and so on. I highly recommend this book to anyone new to the world of personal finance

good book, I learned a lot. was recommended by my personal finance teacher.

very engaging n easy to follow way of explaining the common sense of financing — some things are quite outdated or irrelevant to me atm but still good stuff to think about later on !!

Simple and practical advice for the common man who wants to build steady wealth. I love that it goes into enough details to enrich the reader and yet keeps the message clear. It's a classic book to be read and passed on to the next generations.

thx todd, very educational lol