The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning by David Chilton

3.78 AVERAGE

owenrebeccaann's review

3.5
informative medium-paced

laurenmcdon's review

5.0
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.
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_ainsley's review against another edition

4.5
challenging informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced
not to be read for fun. very precise and easy to understand for the most part. 

in_the_pages's review

I had to read this book for work but skimmed most of it and didn't enjoy it. I'm sure for many with no financial background, this book may be helpful.
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jenny_n's review

3.0
This was a bit corny, and reads like a seminar presentation, but it gives some examples about how to deal with personal finance. I gained the most out of the parts relating to insurance.

shesuncorked's review

5.0
The dialogue is kind of cheesy and annoying towards the end, but I found this book very informative and helpful. It's a very good beginner's lesson for financial planning.

hemmr3252's review against another edition

3.0
informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

eve_leclercracine's review against another edition

4.0
This was REALLY out of my comfort zone as I tend to stick to fiction based books. I’m glad it was written in a way to appeal to the new comers of finance.
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instalovewithbooks's review against another edition

2.0
Good information but so bloody damn boring. The last couple chapters I skimmed because I couldn't handle it anymore, it was so boring and felt like I would die.

Also the homophobic comments about calling a person "it" was incredibly insensitive and rude. Not a fan of that BS.
2/5 stars

gueletk's review against another edition

4.0
A lot of very sensible advice, but if you are not a fan of golf, dad-jokes and white picket fence suburbia, you can probably find a more palatable source for the same information. Somewhat American-focused in places (government saving plans, etc).