Warren Buffett book reviews and other reviews Reviews

new Review of The Snowball - Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - "There have been many books written about Buffett and I have read most of them. They generally gloss over his life but try to extract his investment principles by deduction from some of the trades that he has made. This book is different..."
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Investing - the Last Liberal Art   - new - by Robert Hagstrom - "Influenced, as he acknowledges, by Charlie Munger's investment philosophy, Robert Hagstrom's book takes up on Munger's approach. Investing: the Last Liberal Art, by the author of The Warren Buffett Way, is an extraordinary achievement, a book that goes far beyond being a simple primer of investment approaches..."
The intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham - "If you don’t have this book in your library, then you should not even be contemplating an investment in shares directly, or even indirectly, though a mutual fund. It is surely not a co-incidence, as Warren Buffett graphically illustrates in his Appendix to this book, that some of the world’s most successful investors learned at the feet of Benjamin Graham..." Read Review
Buffett, by Roger Lowenstein -  "Most books about Warren Buffett give us a brief picture of Warren’s life, but concentrate on analyzing his known investments and then putting together the author’s perceptions of why he bough the shares and why he sold them. This well written and interesting book concentrates on the life of Wall Street’s most successful investor, focussing on the man, rather than the system..." Read Review
The New Buffettology, by Mary Buffet and David Clark - "The authors look at the companies Buffett has invested in over the years and what he has said about investment principles and use this to draw up a series of tests and principles that they claim he puts in place when selecting investments. We cannot say with any certainty that these tests and principles totally and accurately reflect the way that Warren Buffett does business. We can however say that they make good and logical sense to us..." Read Review
The Interpretation of Financial Statements, by Benjamin Graham -  "This is a book that nobody seriously considering a stock investment should be without. Even non-stock investors with an indirect interest in the stock market through retirement and mutual funds can benefit from a reading of this book. It can help them understand what their fund managers are doing with their money..." read review

Value Investing, by Janet Lowe - new - "This book is a little gem for anybody who has difficulties in understanding the investment philosophy of Benjamin Graham. Lowe, who has written extensively on Graham, explains many of the investment terms and strategies given by Graham in his writings and relates them to current and up to date business situations. She explains to the reader what value investment is and its connection to both company growth and intrinsic value. ..." read review