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The Number: What Do You Need for the Rest of Your Life and What Will It Cost? By Lee Eisenberg ( Free Press )
Release Date: 2006-12-26
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Do you know what your "number" is? It's the amount you need for your nest egg. Have you saved enough? Can you save enough? The Number offers an intriguing and entertaining tour -- of wealth gurus, life coaches, and financial advisers, and our hopes and fears for the future -- to explore the secrets of the Number. The result is a provocative field guide to your psyche and finances, and an urgently useful book for anyone over thirty.The Number will help you think about the kind of life you want, and the kind of help you need to achieve it.
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 Dont Waste Your Time & Money ( mdee01 )
A total waste of paper - The author enjoys writing words, if you enjoy reading words go for it! If you want any guidance on aspects for retirement and saving for such, spend your time elsewhere - anywhere!
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The second half of the book is worth reading.
I found the first half or so of this book pretty worthless. General information abounds - save more, you'll need it, etc. etc. Nothing new here.
The author does, towards the latter part of the book, make some good points about each of us having to decide what is really important to us in terms of what kind of lifestyle, etc., might make us happy in the later part of our lives. How much money you need (The Number, as it were) is dependant upon how much YOU need to do what YOU want to do. So it does bring up some important issues. But it is no "how to" for retirement.
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 Every worker should read this book
This is a great book for anyone 20+, who is working and thinking they have it made. As a recent early retiree baby boomer, everything in this book rang true. It's not about the "number", it's about how you spend it and how you need to be prudent in your working years.
In addition, the book reads like a novel. I couldn't put it down. Eisenberg's writing is phenomenal. B. Slomka
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Chicken Little gets a job as a financial advisor!
This is "Chicken Little gets a job as a fiancial advisor." Lots of what-if, what-if, what-if...but no answers beyond save more money and reduce your expenses in retirement. This book takes you on a never ending quest to find the number...but the only consistent message is that no matter how much you manage to save or think you need...it will not be enough.
In the last paragraph Eisenberg says "Better to invest this valuable energy, and use that time, to come to terms with who you are, or, if it better pleases you, to make more money." I suggest you take his advice. If you've read more than 3 or 4 of these reviews then you have already wasted too much time on this book.
Why doesn't Amazon have a "zero star" option?
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 A Light-Hearted, Interesting Book
Do not expect a typical "how to retire" book. The book is about a different way to look at your life. I really enjoyed the author's writing style and was surprised that there was a twist, which I have never seen in a non-fiction book. I usually get bored with books so I was surprised I had such an interest in this book. It was a fun read.
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