A bold, fresh, and thought-provoking guide.
Contrarian financial advice from a multimillionaire millennial.
In this debut business book, Ameduri, who built a financial advisory business, Future Money Trends, via a YouTube channel and a newsletter, offers the millennial generation a pep talk about financial freedom. The book begins with a frank discussion that puts wealth accumulation into perspective, with the author noting that “money is an important tool…but it is not the end goal.” Rather, he says, one’s priorities should be taking financial control of one’s own life. He urges members of his generation to adopt a “sustainable, frugal mindset” with an emphasis on eliminating debt and cutting expenses. When it comes to specific personal financial strategies, the author leans away from conventional thinking. For example, he suggests that “the majority of the general public has failed miserably” at retirement and that people should “focus on capturing passive income” rather than pursue traditional retirement-savings approaches. In fact, generating such passive income is a centerpiece of Ameduri’s financial plan; to that end, he advocates and explains such tactics as crowdfunding, real estate investment trusts, and residential real estate investment. The author is no fan of typical Wall Street investing, either; instead, he recommends considering investment in micro-cap companies, precious metals, cryptocurrency, and, intriguingly, whole life insurance policies as investment vehicles. Ameduri also views employment by a company as riskier than being a freelancer or independent contractor, suggesting that “everything about the market is pushing us toward independence and sovereignty.” It all adds up to a heady, provocative, and quietly radical worldview of work, money, and personal freedom, and some millennial readers will no doubt find Ameduri’s approach tantalizing. Others, however, may be wary of such nontraditional approaches. Still, the author’s candor is refreshing, and his sweeping, lofty argument is compelling. He’s passionate about his beliefs and writes with panache, and additional, insightful observations by his wife, Jewel, add to the book’s value.
A bold, fresh, and thought-provoking guide.Pub Date: July 13, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5445-1376-8
Page Count: 196
Publisher: Lioncrest Publishing
Review Posted Online: Sept. 25, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 15, 2019
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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