DEBT FREE FOR LIFE The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Freedom

Erik Davies’s vocal urgency, both hushed and intense, is a prominent feature of this step-by-step guide to paying off, reducing, or eliminating debt without bankruptcy. Listeners used to hearing the author narrate will miss Bach’s boyish enthusiasm, but Davies’s more consistent enunciation and slower pacing in this production make the ideas easier to absorb. Bach provides a lot of helpful background as he describes the particulars of handling various kinds of debt—installment loans, bank card balances, student loans, mortgages. He uses math to justify his recommendations but never overwhelms with numbers. What works best about Bach’s book is not just his creative can-do strategies; he’s also a supportive advocate who makes people believe they deserve to be happy and less burdened by financial distress. T.W. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2012]