In some ways a run-of-the-mill financial planning book. Its main difference is that the advice comes from the "consume less" angle rather than the "budget and hope for the best" angle. There was a very good chapter about home ownership and how to figure out what the author calls your P/R ratio, the "Price to Rent" ratio. This chapter might be good to read for people who are currently renting and frustrated with it.

There is also a lot of talk about living long and prospering, a subject that I believe we who read a lot of financial planning books will see more of in the next ten years. The author points out that we all will probably not have the retirement our grandparents have and will keep working and working, at least part time until at least our 70s. He points out that our "retirement jobs" can be half time work and contain the best parts of our "career" jobs without all the baggage. Farrell gives the good advice to start to volunteer with organizations you care about in your forties, so that when you retire they know you, your strengths and you can work together.