literaryash 's review for:

The Next Millionaire Next Door by Sarah Stanley Fallaw, Thomas J. Stanley

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Awful. Struggled finishing this, gosh. This is straight a plug-in for the first book (that I haven't read yet). Nothing new to learn. Duh, obviously save more, spend less on what you can, living below your means (frugal mindset). But don't really show how to build wealth. What about overcoming living in poverty? Impact due to inflation or cost of living? This assumes people have some money already and have privilege. It urges people to just work hard, persevere, have self discipline, and be a good person- assuming the reader does not do this and judging people are stupid with concepts on approaching and handling money (of course there are people like this but it is a slap in the face to others who do have some financial literacy). Classic boomer Caucasian ideologies, dare I say it. There was a quote somewhere early on saying that you can just 'choose'  to become wealthy through mindset because America gives the choice, or something like that.. Out of date with this current economy . Please. This is the idea of the American dream if this was the 70 years ago.