On all the strong recommendations I went out and bought Poor Charlie’s Almanack, and I must say it was underwhelming: a few general principles are sprinkled sparsely amongst business war stories of varying applicability to todays investor and a bunch of frankly embarrassing tributes to Munger.<p>Perhaps my expectations were too high, but by the fourth sycophantic letter proclaiming Mungers genius (which I do not dispute) I was throughly off-put.