This book is good but light. It's 200 pages, but half of that is fluff. It is meant as a companion to the TV show, and that is where its weaknesses lie. There is a chapter that describes the sound effects Cramer uses and a chapter explaining how to simulate Cramer's "lightning round" by yourself... The 100 pages of actual content are good though, especially to someone clueless like me.

Another great investment book by Jim Cramer. This book contains a plethora of information regarding the stock market but is not so in depth as to confound the reader. If you are looking to learn how to invest in the stock market I would absolutely recommend this book as well as Cramer's "Real Money" and "Stay Mad for Life" books.

There's some real good information in here as long as you can get over the fact of Cramer saying how great he is in every other sentence.

You still gotta do your own homework. People watch his show and think they can just follow his picks. Doesn’t work that way for ANY kind of trading & investing…. So I’ve learned.

This book basically reviews things learned in his first book Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World. I suggest reading the first book and skipping this unless you're one of those people falling for the 'Cramer effect.'

I can't really say I read the whole book, but I read enough to get an idea of it. He prefaces this book by saying that investing in the stock market on an individual stock basis (not mutual funds), is only for those who have a solid financial base and at least $10,000 to "play" with. Since this doesn't apply to me nor to any of those I want to help with finances, I decided to just skim the book and not give it a thorough reading. It was sort of a review of the micro-econ class I had in college.

Jim Cramer is a national treasure, not that I agree with all his recommendations. Unfortunately, some people may be turned off by the props, the speed of delivery and hyperkinetic energy. Those who try to learn from Cramer will be richly rewarded. He fills a very important need: demystifying the voodoo aspects of the market. He offers several frameworks like fundamental, technical and comparable analysis, plus disciplined approaches like diversification, to enable people to get a better handle over their investments. This book is the manual to better understand the show.

You know this stuff if you watch the show.

GREAT BOOK! CRAMER is the man! BUY BUY BUY!

Jim Cramer's Mad Money is a helpful tool to anyone who is beginning to or wants to invest money in the stock market. In this book he advertises his TV show in which he gives viewers advice on what they should buy, nothing is for certain, however he does a lot of the research that you don't have time to do. In his book, he gives lots of shortcuts and tips very helpful to someone starting out. He breaks it down very simply in a way that is not dry and boring but entertaining and rather amusing. This guy is no doubt crazy, however he knows what he is talking about and i learned a lot about how to invest from reading this book. I would recommend it to anyone interested in finance or how to invest their money. It is a how to for dummies pretty much.

Mr. Cramer does a nice job of explaining looking at balance sheets & income statements while doing homework on stocks. Also explains his show a bit.

I read this because I find Cramer's show very entertaining and had just finished his auto-biography (which was excellent). This book, however, is pure crap. You could tell they threw this book together simply to capitalize on the success of the show. It's barely 200 pages, only because they (I say "they" because I have no idea who wrote it--the cover says Cramer wrote it, but the writing was nowhere near the quality of Cramer's) kept adding fluff. There's only enough content for about 100 pages, if that. There are also typos galore. If it took any more than a few hours to read, I would have stopped reading.