Review: Achieving Prosperity

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Achieving Prosperity: A Realistic, Ethical Guide to Building Wealth
By Todd Lipscomb
Everybody want’s to be prosperous. I have a bit of a vested interest in it as I write about personal finance at A Penny Saved.
Achieving Prosperity is about making sound ethical investments over the mid to long range based on taking advantage of economic [...]

Review: Magic Kingdom for Sale

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Magic Kingdom for Sale
By Terry Brooks
If you’ve read any of Terry’s Shannara series books like I have, you’ll go into this book expecting to read all about elves, druids, dwarfs, and the lot.  Don’t.
Magic Kingdom is about Ben, a talented but burnt out lawyer who decides to buy a Magic Kingdom out of a Rosen’s [...]

Review - Cell: A Novel

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Cell: A novel
By Stephen King
As a rampant Stephen King fan, I find it very hard to objectively review this book.  But, I’ll try.
Cell is a novel about cell phones.  More specifically, what happens when a “pulse” is sent out over the cell phone networks that makes everyone who has a cell phone stone cold crazy.
As [...]

Review: The Long Tail

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
By Chris Anderson
It’s been just a hair over a month now since Chris gave away 100 of his soon to be published book(it’s been published since). I happened to be one of the lucky few who was first in line to receive [...]