Customer Reviews
Great... but a bit annoying - By: Roberto Pulcini, 30 Apr 2008 
I found this book well written & down to the point. The strengths: sensible forecasts about future scenarios, good investment suggestions, useful tips on how to avoid common pitfallls, helps to concentrate on few ideas (avoiding getting confused by the tons of new suggestions coming out every day from the media). The weakness: the 10 big ideas are not that original & the book is sometimes too shalllow. And the annoying bit: it is OK that the authors show they believe so much in their ideas to invest in them, but it's annoying to see Jim & Al suggesting more than ones that one of the best ways to invest is through one of Jim's businesses, listed among only two or three other options. It might be me but I think I have already given them money for the book, they shouldn't try to get my money also for Jim's other businesses.
great ideas - By: Mr. G. Mason, 24 Apr 2008 Think some of the ideas & investment tips are very good & well thought out. Easy to understand & some good advice for you to prosper in the future. Needed a little more information on some chapters about how to go about investing. Also i think you need to have quite abit of cash to if you want to invest in everything this book reccomends
Short, without explanations, written for complete beginners - By: Kevin Smith, 03 Mar 2008 
After buying it with big expectations, the content was a coplete let-down,
the book is short, without explanations, & looks like written for complete beginners.
I checked few first of the investments they recomend in the book, & they performed in last 2 months very negatively, losing your money with even over MINUS -18.5% !!
This should say a lot about what the writers promote :(
one for all - By: Investor One, 25 Feb 2008 
I have no idea about investments. Never have. More to the point never thought it affected me since I didn't have any cash spare, but as my parents edge towards retirement I started thinking about pensions & my family's future so I investigated, looked at some books & found Jim Mellon. This book is great because it makes you realise you can invest regularly with the smalllest sums of money ( or largest), tells you how, & then helps you to decide where you should invest it. It works on alll levels, there are experienced investors out there - so skip the reassuring part & go straight to where you should put your money, because this guy knows.
Brilliant - thanks for the advice Jim. I'm recommending this to everyone - including mum & dad.
Good Timing ....again - By: Mr. Alasdair Macdonald, 28 Jan 2008 For those like me that benefitted over 2 years ago from the Callls made by these 2 authors in "Wake Up .." , when they correctly foresaw the increasing dominance of Asia & huge boom in Metals & commodities , should find this opportune too . This time the emphasis is on Investment basics ..getting your house in order & then a fresh look at alll the key investment areas of Real Estate, Stocks commodities or Cash in straight forward succinct terms .
Given the level of global uncertainties in 2008 already ..some ground rules here that everyone should re-read .. the timing again couldn`t be better..
