The Art of Value Investing: How the World's Best Investors Beat the Market Hardcover – April 29, 2013

This book is not what I expected. Tilson is an outstanding investor, and someone I look up to. In hindsight, other reviews are spot on in what is included in this book. This is a gift from Tilson to the value investing community and I appreciate every word and line. In Tilsons next book, I would love to read about the Art and Science that he incorporates into his portfolio management... Less anything proprietary.

I found the book to be interesting and it gave me many new investment concepts to consider in the future. I found the format of the book to be both a plus and a minus. Clearly the ideas came from many experts and as such had high credibility. This was useful. However I missed the authors' task of integrating the comments, some of which were at times contradictory. I wished the authors would have written some integrating comments at the end of each chapter to pull together the comments better. To me one task of an author is to help the reader learn by integration and summarization. I felt the authors could have helped me more there. I am still only an educated amateur in investing and I would have liked more help.

There are some real gems of investment advice here from some very good stock focused fund managers, however there is also some average advice from average fund managers, so before you take their advice on board check their long-term track record, but this is a real bible of value stock investing and well worth the purchase

Instant Classic. Although some may hate the writing style and a few may complain that this was not really written by Whitney Tilson and John Heins, I would say it is an exceptional book that will help many people to figure out which type of investor they are.

This book does not supply the nuts and bolts of value investing; but rather, gives you the different philosophies, of value investing, from various money managers. From that standpoint, it has value. However, if you're expecting to read the book, in order glean how to select value stocks using metrics, look elsewhere.

I do not like the way this book is written. It is essentially a compilation of quotes and stories from various asset managers. Did not gain as much from this book relative to the many other value investing books I have read.

This is a very well put together book compiling interviews with many well respected and successful investors. The authors have done a great job organizing these investors thoughts by subject. The format reminds me of Lawrence Cunningham's Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America.

I bought this as a companion to "The Manual of Ideas" by John Mihaljevic. This book covers the same territory from idea analysis to execution and portfolio management but uses multiple 1-2 paragraph quotes from well known value investors on each topic.