Lynch, who, like Warren Buffet, the most successful investor in the world, pursues a value-oriented approach and as this is recommended, prefer to deal with the companies themselves constantly staring at the ticker, it creates even for lay people who do not just have studied economics, understandable explanation of what valuable information you can refer to the published annual financial statements.
The book goes far beyond and also gives an excellent insight into the stock exchange, economic and business processes, it shows how to find promising companies and what to look at the analysis.
Conclusion: I have read many books about the stock market issue, but this book is in my opinion the best of all. The pleasant writing style as well as the good subdivision make reading an exciting excursion into the world of the investment industry.