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Title: Beating the Street by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild ISBN: 0-671-89163-4 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (43 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I like this book
Comment: This is a great investing book. While some of the informatio is repreated from One Up on Wall Street, there is still enough new information to make this book a worthwhile read.I would recommend that you read One Up first and also Learn to Earn. I also recommend Buffettolgy and 2 Bad Years and Up we go.Learn to earn and beat the street with proven techniques by one of the greatest inestors of all time--Mr. Peter Lynch.
Rating: 4
Summary: When it's good, it's really good
Comment: I had read this book back near the beginning of the real boom time (sometime in the mid-90s), and rereading it now made me wish that I had paid much closer attention back then. Even though this book is extremely optimistic about the stock market and was written well before internet mania, there are probably 50 different sentences sprinkled throughout the book that would have kept me out of the market during the next few years and saved me a lot of money had I remembered any of them. When this book is slow, it can be really slow. But when Mr. Lynch does hit gold, it's the motherload. Indeed, the last three pages of the book, "20 Golden Rules," are probably worth the purchase price alone (particularly since you can almost certainly buy this book used for less than $5 at any time). The last third of the book, where Mr. Lynch gives advice on investing in a number of different industries, ranges from incredibly useful to skippable, depending on what you already have some knowledge about.
I have two particular criticisms of this book. One is that, although Mr. Lynch's tales of his days running Magellan make it clear that he was selling only a little less often than he was buying, he doesn't give much advice about how to go about that side of things. Secondly, although the book starts off with the story of a group of elementary school kids who beat the pros, the rest of the book seems to contradict Mr. Lynch's implication that a 10 year-old can do this. Although this book is very readable, one can't help but come away with the conclusion that investing in stocks is hard (if you don't think so, you may living on luck). Mr. Lynch's main argument is that you don't have to be a pro to invest in stocks, but just about every story that he has about researching a stock includes him talking to the CEO of the potential investment at some point. I'm not expecting to be able to replicate that research technique.
Still, I'd highly recommend this book, and I look forward to reading his other well-known book, "One Up on Wall Street."
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: It's hard to find a better written book on investing that Beating the Street. Despite working in the industy for many years, Peter Lynch urges people to do it for themselves. He writes clearly giving examples of how one could do better than the Wall Street pros. This book is one of the best on investing that I have read.
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Title: The Warren Buffett Way, : Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert G. Hagstrom ISBN: 0471177504 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: One Up On Wall Street : How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild ISBN: 0743200403 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business by Peter Lynch, John Rothchild ISBN: 0684811634 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter ISBN: 0446677469 Publisher: Warner Business Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The 16% Solution How To Get Interest Rates by Joel S. Moskowitz ISBN: 0836280849 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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