{"id":51,"date":"2011-05-09T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:31:54","slug":"51-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/51-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Capital: the critics&#8217; verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.investorschronicle.co.uk\/\">Investors Chronicle<\/a>\u00a0by Alistair Blair. Extracts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;&#8230;a compelling read&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;You could learn a lot from this dazzling dozen&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;&#8230;definitely the best investment book that has crossed my desk for some time.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full text of review\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/wehttp:\/\/www.investorschronicle.co.uk\/Columnists\/NoFreeLunch\/article\/20110503\/f41d82da-755c-11e0-b1af-00144f2af8e8\/The-dazzling-dozen.jsp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160419131217\/http:\/\/www.stockopedia.co.uk\/\">Stockopedia<\/a>&nbsp;Extracts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;At last,a true to life account of UK investing&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;&#8230;highly recommended reading&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full text of review&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160419131217\/http:\/\/www.stockopedia.co.uk\/content\/guy-thomas-free-capital-at-last-a-true-to-life-account-of-uk-investing-56265\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfia.co.uk\/AboutContact\/AboutAndrewHowe.asp\">Andrew Howe<\/a>\u00a0(longer version of an Amazon review). Extracts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Free Capital is excellent storytelling&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;&#8230;has both impact and depth&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;&#8230;If it&#8217;s not worth \u00a310 of your money I don\u2019t know what is.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full text of review\u00a0<a href=\"\/http:\/\/www.ri3k.me.uk\/Misc\/Free-Capital-Review.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160419131217\/http:\/\/fw.ifslearning.ac.uk\/Archive\/2011\/September\/Reviews\/FreeCapitalAndyDavies.aspx\">F<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/fw.ifslearning.ac.uk\/Archive\/2011\/September\/Reviews\/FreeCapitalAndyDavies.aspx\">inancial World<\/a>\u00a0Extracts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;&#8230;fascinating&#8230;above all an unusually compelling self-help title.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;This book answers its market extremely well.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full text of review\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fw.ifslearning.ac.uk\/Archive\/2011\/September\/Reviews\/FreeCapitalAndyDavies.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(Last update: 19 Nov 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors Chronicle\u00a0by Alistair Blair. Extracts: &#8220;&#8230;a compelling read&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;You could learn a lot from this dazzling dozen&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;definitely the best investment book that has crossed my desk for some time.&#8221; Full text of review\u00a0here. Stockopedia&nbsp;Extracts: &#8220;At last,a true to life account of UK investing&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;&#8230;highly recommended reading&#8230;&#8221; Full text of review&nbsp;here. Andrew Howe\u00a0(longer version of &#8230; <a title=\"Free Capital: the critics&#8217; verdict\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/51-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Free Capital: the critics&#8217; verdict\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guythomas.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}