My father is making me read this book and I already went through half of it. I am absolutely bored.
Every single one of the "precious" advice that made the book famous are just the simplest or stupidest things I've ever read. Like, when the autor says that poor people are poor because they are slaves of their own money and don't become rich because of their fear of losing all of it, I get mad. Poor people are poor for many reasons, most don't have a single cent to spend on assets, they are worried whether or not they will br able to aford their next meal or have a roof over their heads.
Also, he says that, to be rich your income has to be bigger than your expenses. To me, that's obvious, basic math, however, poor people don't get to choose that, even if they try to save. Also, in any moment (up until where I have read) he explains how to become richer, he just says "you need to gain more than you spend and use the leftover money to get more money". But. how.
I am middle class, I am absolutely not rich but live confortably, and this book is pissing me off a little with it's insensitiviness with poor people and absolutely obvious advice. And I also find kinda ridiculous that this man had to tell a fake history of his past to prove his point. Don't get me wrong, I do think that "money intelligence" is something very important and am interested in learning more on this subject for my on good, it's just that this one book in particular doesn't seem to be teaching me very much.
However, maybe all this is caused by my taste in books. Normally I just read fantasy, so I think this is really not mt cup of tea.
Edit: Sorry for my bad writing, English is not my first language.
by pesdevidro