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To: Bob Rudd who wrote (2949)	12/18/2001 12:29:39 AM
From: James Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4690

Value Investing from Graham to Buffett by Bruce Greenwald - this IS the legendary value investing course at Columbia Business School as it has been taught for the last decade or so. The whole course is in this book. This set me back about $50,000 and now Greenwald is schlocking it for $34 on Amazon. (And they call me a value investor - when am I going to learn patience, to wait for my price...?) Its quite a bargain in that sense. I read it and considered it good, not great, but thats probably because I'd heard it before and he's a much better teacher than writer. Bruce Greenwald is one of the best classroom teachers I've ever studied with, and I've seen some great ones. His sense of humor and larger than life personality (and larger than life person - the guy probably weighs 400 pounds) just doesn't come through in his writing. But everybody else I lent the book to who wasn't familiar with his approach loved the book and read it in two days.

To: Bob Rudd who wrote (2949)	12/24/2001 1:48:20 AM
From: Paul Senior	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4690

Sun. evening OT: "I got the book at the library, but may purchase if I find it cheap." LOL! Now that is a value investor!! I once did a review of "The Millionaire Next Door", a book which showed how "ordinary" but frugal people were able to become millionaires. The authors suggested that readers who wanted to become millionaires too should emulate this millionaire behavior. My point was then that anybody who followed this should NOT buy the book - no wanna-be millionare would or should spend the twenty-plus bucks for it. They'd get it from the library. I was astonished that the book was on the 'best seller' list!! And I wondered what the authors would say about that, given that from their research, spending money on something that could be got free is just something their millionaires would not be doing. Paul Senior, who has been looking for this Greenwald investing book at his local library.