Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Simple Path to Wealth: Your Guide to Financial Freedom
E.A. Sparks · 2023
🎙 Narrated by Michael F. Ward (confirmed via Amazon audiobook listing, published by Pendant Publishing)
46/100
👎 Skip It
Another title-alike trap — this is not JL Collins's famous 'The Simple Path to Wealth,' so double-check the author before buying. Michael F. Ward's narration is solid and the book is widely distributed, but the broad-strokes coverage of stocks, real estate, and crypto/NFTs doesn't go deep enough on any one of them to really deliver. Skip it in favor of the book people actually mean when they say this title.
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🎙 Narration: good Narrated by Michael F. Ward, unabridged, widely distributed across Audible, Storytel, Apple Books, and Spotify.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety70
Substance / usefulness50
Craft & writing55
Originality33
Evidence & accuracy38
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit75
Human-eye read42
Penny’s verdict46
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