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JD Roth Audiobooks

How to Achieve Financial Independence and Retire Early: the FIRE case in under five hours

1 audiobook reviewed

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Money & Finance

Who is JD Roth?

There is nothing to unpick in How to Achieve Financial Independence and Retire Early. The title spells out the promise word by word, and in doing so spells out the acronym that has organised an entire movement in personal finance: financial independence, retire early.

JD Roth arrives on our money and finance shelf with that argument and narrates it in person. Four and a half hours is the working length of a manual rather than a manifesto, which suits the material well, because the interesting part of this subject has always been the arithmetic and the trade-offs rather than the slogan on the cover.

Beyond the book, nothing is asserted here.

JD Roth in audiobooks

Under five hours makes this a single weekend of listening, and material of this kind is better heard in one run than in fragments, since the arithmetic accumulates and a figure introduced in the second hour tends to matter in the fourth.

No listener verdicts have been recorded against the title, so it comes to you unscored. That is an absence rather than a judgement, and with the author reading it the first ten minutes will tell you whether the approach is practical enough for your own purposes.

The book sits below whenever you are ready to run the numbers.