Anyone read "the little book that beats the market"?

buriedbeds · #1 02-02-2006, 02:37 PM

Netlibrary does a featured book each month and the current one is "the little book that beats the market" by Joel Greenblatt. Since I'm early in my interest in the market I'm trying to *not* read things that will screw up my burgeoning understanding of the fundamentals, so I was wondering if anyone has any opinions on this one before I check it out and potentially get a bunch of misinformation.

Thanks for any tips-

-bb.

buffett · #2 02-02-2006, 04:16 PM

Did you use the search function?

buriedbeds · #3 02-02-2006, 05:39 PM

Buffett, I swear to you that I did and I have no idea why I didn't find that thread...I tried a bunch of different queries in a few different forums and came up with nothing. All apologies.

buffett · #4 02-02-2006, 06:13 PM

No worries, dude.

I just finished reading the book last weekend, and it was every bit as good as I was hoping. That Greenblatt is smart, funny, humble, wise, eloquent, and a whole bunch of other good stuff.

hawk59 · #5 02-02-2006, 07:40 PM

It's good, get his other book too. I think you're better off reading this stuff than reading Graham.

DesertCat · #6 02-03-2006, 12:17 PM

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It's good, get his other book too. I think you're better off reading this stuff than reading Graham.

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Agreed. Greenblatt lays out the basics of value investing in a very direct, and entertaining fashion. Save Graham for when you're ready to read a very important, but dry, textbook.

buriedbeds · #7 02-03-2006, 12:30 PM

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It's good, get his other book too. I think you're better off reading this stuff than reading Graham.

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Agreed. Greenblatt lays out the basics of value investing in a very direct, and entertaining fashion. Save Graham for when you're ready to read a very important, but dry, textbook.

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Excellent; Graham was next on my list, so I'll start with Greenblatt and then move on to Graham.

Thanks a lot; this forum is great (and thankfully filled with smart, helpful people less apt to flame someone for posting a redundant topic...sorry again about that. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ).

Thanks-

-bb.