J. D. Roth (1) (1969–)

Excellent basic-to-intermediate level personal finance guide. J.D. Roth is a great writer -- always interesting and straight to the point. If you've read the blog he founded, Get Rich Slowly, as devotedly as I have, you might not learn a great deal from this book, but it's still a clear outline of personal finance topics, and I learned a couple new things.

Excellent basic-to-intermediate level personal finance guide. J.D. Roth is a great writer -- always interesting and straight to the point. If you've read the blog he founded, Get Rich Slowly, as devotedly as I have, you might not learn a great deal from this book, but it's still a clear outline of personal finance topics, and I learned a couple new things.

This was a very good, basic money manual. It had a lot of links and notes about other resources, making it an excellent reference tool. I found the section on buying a car especially informative and plan on re-reading it when I go to make my next vehicle purchase.

I'm a long time reader of the author's blog at GetRichSlowly.org and have always found the information there useful so I pre-ordered his book as soon as I knew it was coming out. I was not at all disappointed and found the content to be the same type of common sense personal finance advice as in the blog. Not the same advice exactly, mind you, as there was plenty of new information here. The book also references a lot of online articles for further reading on particular topics, and those show more links can be found here: http://missingmanuals.com/cds/yourmoneymm/ show less