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Mar9
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Filed under: Personal Finance; Tagged as: Alice, buffett, business, Celebrity, Follies, Investor, Life, Memoir, Oracle, Oracle Of Omaha, Remainder Mark, Schroeder, Snowball, Triumphs, warren, Warren Buffett, wisdom5 Comments
- ISBN13: 9780553384611
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Product Description
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goe… More >>
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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5 responses to “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” 
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I bought this book as a Christmas present for my Son. I ordered it on 28th November but did not receive it until after Christmas so am very very very unhappy.
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This hagiograpgy shows the fallible, human side of Saint Warren, not in anything that is said in this overlong, unfocused and unedited ramble, but in the fact the Mr. Buffett, who allegedly attached great important to this effort, was unable to pick someone to write an interesting book.
Rating: 1 / 5 -
I got it!
You know how one of the arguments against the possibility of time travel goes “time travel is not possible, because if it was, we would encounter time travelers from the future and we don’t”? Well, Warren Buffett is a man who travelled from the future, only instead of Sports Almanach, he brought with him a book with historic share prices.
And, btw, this book is parallel to that biography movie that Marty sees in front of Biff’s tower in ruined 1985…
Rating: 5 / 5 -
This book is way too volumunious and in small print on top of it. Who has time to read a book that size?
Rating: 2 / 5 -
Alice Schroeder is an accountant more than a writer but this book and its pattern flow very well. Buffett selected her more for her financial thinking than anything else I suspect. Schroeder tries to tell it like it is. I imagine Buffett felt the heat on reading some of it. Read the footnotes too.
It is the story of someone who got in the groove of making money and stayed there 24/7. The pull of the story is to see the interactions between Buffett and his relatives and other people. It is a very candid book.
WEB is a real hero by the end of the book. Maybe he became one as he got older. So it seems. Alice is egging him on to go from hero to sainthood at the end of the book. However, books about people are like icebergs, you only see the little bit above the surface. Good job Alice.
Buy the book at a bargain price.
I hear that when Charlie Munger wanted to read this book he tried to borrow it from the library. However, it was out on loan to Warren Buffett at the time.
Rating: 4 / 5
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C. B. Kirkpatrick March 9th, 2010 at 08:53