Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) , Books Mark your calendars: September 29th, 2009 will mark the debut of the long-awaited official biography of Warren Buffett: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life . The list price is $35, but Amazon has it for $23.10, giving it a price/pages ratio of .023. This compares favorably with The Warren Buffett Way, which has a price/pages ratio of .037. Buffett would be pleased with the value proposition here. The USA Today reports that the author, former insurance industry analyst Alice Schroeder has spent "thousands of hours" with Buffett, and also interviewed his friends extensively, and was given broad access to his records. There are only a few topics that I'd be able to read 976 pages about without losing interest: I suspect that Mr. Buffett is one of them. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...
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Filed under: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) , Books Mark your calendars: September 29th, 2009 will mark the debut of the long-awaited official biography of Warren Buffett: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life . The list price is $35, but Amazon has it for $23.10, giving it a price/pages ratio of .023. This compares favorably with The Warren Buffett Way, which has a price/pages ratio of .037. Buffett would be pleased with the value proposition here. The USA Today reports that the author, former insurance industry analyst Alice Schroeder has spent "thousands of hours" with Buffett, and also interviewed his friends extensively, and was given broad access to his records. There are only a few topics that I'd be able to read 976 pages about without losing interest: I suspect that Mr. Buffett is one of them. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...