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Comfort Zones: Planning a Fulfilling Retirement, 5th Edition

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This is one of the better retirement books around, quite possibly even the best of the bunch but I really can't say that, I haven't read them all. This book gives not only the most rounded discussion, but includes worksheets to help you define your goals and desires.

There are a few specific comments worth making:

Chapter 1 talks about retirement from a general sense, but the underlying tone is about the concern people have about being bored. I and the vast majority of people I know didn't have that problem at all. Instead we wonder how we ever found time to go to work. I wake up in the morning with nothing to do and by bed time it's only half done. There's the Arts Council, the community theater, church, two or three volunteer organizations, the grand kids, travel, Elderhostels and I'm outta time.

The chapters on money hint at some things but I think it would be better to say simply: After the house is paid for, the vehicle is paid for, the last kid is out of college, it doesn't take all that much to live.

There is one area that I wish the author would have covered. I realize that it would just be a guess, but what impact is rising oil prices going to have on retirement. Oil is now about $64 a barrel. In the future that price will double and double again. How does this impact the rest of the book? As a retired employee of an oil company I would value his guesses.