Simple Path to Wealth: Your Guide to Financial Freedom

by E.A. Sparks

Live your life financially free and stop worrying. Start investing and learn the ways of successful stock market traders, own properties, build equity, and overall increase your net worth.

According to a May 2022 Lending Club survey, around 64% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Whether this statistic is being blamed on inflation or other world events, it does not matter. There is money to be made and thousands of methods of doing so.

Making money is simple, but not easy. Meeting your financial goals is easier explained than accomplished. Learn the basics of making money in an easy way to understand. Whether you’re just beginning your financial journey or struggling along the way, this book will guide you in the right direction so you can plan out your future action. Building generational wealth should be on everyone’s mind so get started sooner rather than later. Author E.A. Sparks will provide you with a starting point for modern financial achievements with tried-and-true methods of success.

In Simple Path to Your Guide to Financial Freedom you will to manage your money like a millionaire.The importance of financial literacy.Methods of stock market trading you should already be using.Secrets to real estate investing and building equity.Modern investing with Cryptocurrencies and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT).Worthy side hustles and sources of passive income that have already made people a lot of money.Investment strategies that have the potential to make you millions of dollars.Following the strategies outlined in this book have already made ordinary people millions of dollars. The information is available, but it takes a certain type of person to take action. Most people will read this book and never follow through with any of the learned information, which is unfortunate. We all have the ability to achieve financial success, some just need a stronger push than others. Take the information and run with it, you will not be disappointed.

Genres: Audiobook, Business, Finance

130 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2022

Reviews

[Thad · Rating 1 out of 5]

The simple path to wealth is as follows:

1. Steal the title of an extremely popular book.
2. Write just enough really bad material for plausible deniability.
3. Hope that enough morons like me throw on the audiobook in the car without realizing it's the wrong book.
4. Generate passive income.

[Dana · Rating 2 out of 5]

It takes a special person to write a subpar finance book and steal the title of the best personal finance book.

[Travis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretty much garbage, if I'm feeling generous. Amazing that a book published in 2022 could be so obsessed with cryptocurrency and NFTs. Also written in a condescending tone that seemed to imply if you're not already rich, you have no one to blame but yourself. And it seemed to think taxes were one of the worst things blocking the everyday layperson's path to wealth, while also not providing any support for this claim or advice to act on it.

I'd requested this book from Libby thinking it was The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins. It's not, though I think that's an understandable mistake. Even the subtitle is nearly identical. Whether intentional or not, the similarity is misleading and feels deceitful.

[Kara of BookishBytes · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is simple, as the title promises. The advice is sound. This is a good choice if you understand sound personal financial principles and just need a refresher or a bit of motivation. It isn't a good choice if you are starting on a personal financial journey and need step by step instructions on how to pull your financial life together.

[Joe · Rating 1 out of 5]

Haven’t read a finance book in awhile and this one was short… very basic information, feels like he had chat gpt write this… random chapter on NFTs??? I’d give zero stars if I could..

[Shebby · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked this up because I thought Collins was the author (his book has the same name). But this one was short enough to give it a try. I'm glad it was short because it would have been a waste of time otherwise.

For the people looking for a simple explanation of finances, the book is too surface-level to explain anything. Money is helpful. Credit card debt is bad. Thanks, Copernicus. One of the author's suggestions to save money is to not get married until later in life. That's kind of the point of marriage. You find someone to go through the ups and downs of life with. To be poor with. Someone who loves you more than money. You don't find someone to fit into the life you've already created for yourself.

He did mention something that isn't brought up enough: invest in yourself. It doesn't matter what you're doing or where you're at in life. If you make a commitment to yourself, push yourself, and gain skills, you will come out ahead. Because you'll either be better at your job, get raises, or even if you find yourself unemployed, you are now a stronger person with more skills to be more valuable and resilient no matter what you do next.

[Caleb Hayes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don’t get me wrong there was some great advice for personal financial management. But overall he was kinda all over the place and then settled into entrepreneurship about halfway through. If you wanted to read it I can save you the time by giving the better advice: open a high yield savings account, invest in CDs mutual funds and index funds, and look into ownership sharing programs for industries you’re interested in.

[Megan E · Rating 1 out of 5]

I’ve never rated any book 1 star but this book provides so little value for anyone with common sense who hasn’t been living under a rock the last 10 years. There are probably only 2 or 3 points in the entire book that I haven’t heard of before and I’m not a finance expert. So there’s very little of unique value for readers unless you’re a space invader looking to get rich on planet earth.

Furthermore, like some other reviewers, I highly suspect this book was written by AI. It has the kind of generic structure, mundane cadence, and lack of a personalized voice that’s typical of of AI writing. The “author” EA Sparks has no profile on Goodreads and the book appears to be self published. So I suspect the “author” doesn’t even want to admit that they “wrote” this book. The cover is definitely something AI would create.

Worse yet, the “author” titled this book very similar to an earlier book THE Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins. Several other reviewers noted they’d been searching for the earlier book and mistakenly got this “copy cat” instead. Bad form EA Sparks whoever you really are.

[Alexandra · Rating 1 out of 5]

Quality: 1/5
Enjoyment: 1/5

This book was giving red flags in the intro, but I gave it a few chapters anyway to see if it had something worthwhile to say. It did not.

It does that classic poor-people-are-poor-by-choice thing and no joke says that staying rich is harder than getting rich. Obviously does not site any data to support.

Update: realizing what happened here — this is a grifter stealing a book title from a popular book.

[Liz · Rating 1 out of 5]

It felt like someone put “rich dad poor dad” into chatGPT and said “make it super short and even worse” also “take the title of another popular finance book and use it, hoping people get tricked into reading mine”.

One star for successfully tricking me.

[Brianna Vasquez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Booooo

[Garrett Lamb · Rating 1 out of 5]

Based on other reviews I believe I read the wrong book. One advantage is it's short. Is very high level without getting very detailed on anything in particular

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really disappointed to learn the title was knocked off of "the Simple Path to Wealth."

[Katie Rust · Rating 3 out of 5]

This certainly had a lot of great topics, and was motivational. But I found that it was moreso just telling you general ways to grow your wealth and strive towards financial freedom, and less of the “how“. It gave general descriptions, but overall it mostly gives you ideas to do your own research about.

[Lacey W · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gives surface knowledge of various investing terminology and business aspects. Short and simple. This book is fine if you're just looking for something to briefly discuss types of investments and side income. 2.5 star

Audiobook narration was fine.

[Eva Darling · Rating 1 out of 5]

Tricked! This book borrowed its title from the “real” book. This is some self-published AI trash.

The twist comes at the end when you realize this garbage is just some schmo’s attempt at passive income. Joke’s on you.

[Aubry Ault · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing new

[Devon Sligh · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was truly quite bad

[Sunvoal2013 · Rating 4 out of 5]

many people don't like this book, but I think its ok. simple but to the points without many BS pep talks. as somebody read quite some "money" books, this is not a bad refresh

[Amanda Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

I need to read more books like this to know if it is good. However, I made it to the end. I got annoyed but it may be because it is about finances, a subject that tends to annoy me.

[Shannon · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretty shitty to title your ChatGPT trash after a best seller. I’m embarrassed to say that I fell for it and bought the wrong book.