Michael Lewis has a billion word review of out (actual count: around 4,700) on Alice Schroeder’s Warren Buffett biography, Snowball. As is our wont, we’ve taken the liberty of excerpting the most juvenile parts, which we think dovetail together nicely, and give larger meaning to the whole.
He confines himself to the diet of an eight-year-old, refusing to eat anything much beyond spaghetti, hamburgers, and grilled cheese sandwiches. Schroeder describes a bizarre scene in which Katherine Graham escorted Buffett to dinner at the Manhattan apartment of Sony Chairman Akio Morita. Japanese chefs served plate after plate that Buffett left completely untouched. “By the end of fifteen courses, he still had not eaten a bite,” writes Schroeder. “The Moritas could not have been more polite, which added to his humiliation. He was desperate to escape back to Kay’s apartment, where popcorn and peanuts and strawberry ice cream awaited him. ‘It was the worst,’ he says about the meal he did not eat. ‘I’ve had others like it but it was by far the worst. I will never eat Japanese food again.’”
Through it all, Buffett maintained his desire to present to the outside world a life simple and ordinary. He only ever made one public statement on his polygamous family arrangements (“[I]f you knew the people involved, you’d see that it suited all of us quite well”), though he added to Schroeder that “they both need to give, and I’m a great receiver, so it works for them.”
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Too Brigham; Didn’t Young
Too Hari: Didn’t Kari
@1- he’s from Nebraska, not Utah, you complete and utter retard.
Will someone point out #3′s complete and utter missing of my point in #1? I have far too much class.
@4/1- I really don’t get what you were suggesting. Do Mormons not eat pussy?
What is with the wife thing?
@6– Buffett married Susan Thompson in 1952. They had three children, Susie, Howard, and Peter. The couple began living separately in 1977, although they remained married until her death in July 2004. Their daughter Susie lives in Omaha and does charitable work through the Susan A. Buffett Foundation and is a national board member of Girls, Inc. In 2006, on his seventy-sixth birthday, he married his never-married longtime-companion, Astrid Menks, who was then sixty years old. She had lived with him since his wife’s departure in 1977 to San Francisco.[44] It was Susan Buffett who arranged for the two to meet before she left Omaha to pursue her singing career. All three were close and holiday cards to friends were signed “Warren, Susie and Astrid”.[45]
Too Big: Didn’t Love
Nobody puts Warren in the corner
Yes, I’ve heard that about him.
Warren went to the library to borrow this book but Charlie Munger had it out on loan.
That last line was priceless!
Bess, that title is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen on this website.
Wow. Just wow.
@lowly– that can’t possibly be true.
And btw…title of the book, _Snowball_? Seriously? Eat that dairy, queen.
/disgusting.
the title of this post dovetails nicely with SAC piece from earlier.
14,
Well, it’s been a long time since she’s brought the trifecta: nazis, 9/11, & Steve Cohen’s man-tits together.
Any word on if WB wears CareBears pj’s? If he really is like an 8 year old, he’s a tit man…
@17- when has she ever written about all three in one post? definitely never (and don’t think she’s written about 9/11 ever, period).
WB is a slimy lil’ bugger.
“I will never eat Japanese food again”. So, sitting at the table and refusing to eat is still considered eating, I guess.
“they both need to give, and I’m a great receiver, so it works for them.”…jesus, Warren, are you a Dom?? Mr Folksy with the Creamsicle liked his menage with two subby women.
Oh, lets all just picture WB decked out in his dungeon lair,complete with glassed in candy room,ice cream parlor and assorted whips and sex toys decorating the walls…
@21- yeah, that was weird of him.
@22- it seems like he was saying they love to give blow jobs and I love to get them.
@23 — More like they love to wear a strap on and he likes to have his fudge packed.
19,
One can surely dream, can’t he?
And aren’t we wet behind the ears? She’s thrown in a little 9/11 spizazz now and again.
@24- that’s definitely not what he was saying. he was talking blow jobs.
@26 — $5 says you’re either Asian or a woman.
@27- context is key. the other parts about the wives are about how all they did was serve him, and wait on him hand and foot. “they love to give” = “they love to blow me.”
It’s actually a pretty good book.. long as hell though… lots of stuff about the three some he worked for so many years! Hey, don’t hate the player, hate the game..
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WB’s a freak and a very weird dude.
I met the guy once. He is def a weirdo and def takes it up the arse.
Warren is a selfish old homo — would love to get in Becky Quick’s Joe Boxers — his
ex couldn’t stand his drive to be the richest man in the world — Munger is a
as fake as they come — WB’s love for Bill Gates? — it is money and power — would you follow these fagoos to the men’s room if you had the streamers? They will die alone like we all will / do…………..
Too gang. Didn’t bang.
wasnt buffett in that lemonparty.org picture?
He has all of the money and the world and no taste. Pity. What a hick.
He’s taking after his mentor, Benjamin Graham. He pulled the same “separated and banging long time mistress but refuses to marry her until said wife dies.” Weird shit.
I think everybody else should pay more taxes but I’m going to retain all my wealth on my corporate balance sheet so that I don’t have to.
Jesus, what a jerk. Talk about rude to your hosts — couldn’t you just take one bite of tuna.
Oracle of Omaha, meet the Oracle of Obama.
Make way for the new Oracle in town.
@34, yes
This book came out a long time ago did Bess just get around to reading it? Whats next Gone with the Wind?
This is what you get Warren for buying that company from that Israeli charlatan.
“Michael Lewis has a billion word review of out (actual count: around 4,700) on Alice Schroeder’s Warren Buffett biography, Snowball. ”
Bess! Bess! You poor old girl. Won’t you let me help you edit your poor grammar?
“Michael Lewis has a billion word review out (actual count: around 4,700) on Alice Schroeder’s Warren Buffett biography, Snowball.”
“of” does not belong between “review” and “out”
-TGFH
Keep them articles on Warren coming. It doesnt matter what they say as long as it says “Warren Buffett” on the title you are bound to get people to read it.
@40 “did bess just get around to reading it”? no. she just got around to reading the lewis review, which came out this week. details. they matter.
Bess calling Michael Lewis “juvenile.” Classic.
You just can’t make that kind of shit up. Thanks, BL.
@44- I think Bess was actually making fun of herself, and putting the juvenile on her/DB.
I will dress-up and act the part of Warren’s dead mother for him for $1 billion annually. I will listen to his mommy issues, brush his hair and allow slight nipple touch, but no tongue – - a woMAN must have boundaries. I am an analrapist afterall.
Tobias Funke
I thought the whole threesome thing happened cuz the wife was a lezzie?
Makes sense, she introduced them, was cool with it, moved to San Fran…was HUGE into planned parenthood…
CnHJmK Really informative article post.Really looking forward to read more. Awesome.