yes, he does come across as nice but then he did write it!
I found it an ok read (but then again, I read it while stuck in a Blackpool hotel with my mother for a week and would have read cereal packets to pass the time) ( )

Ubiquitous on airport bookshop shelves and car boot sales, this was another 20p purchase. Grasshopping Howard Marks does seem genuinely nice. He rises and falls, sells and invests, dodges and dives does porridge and Monte Carlo but by about two thirds of the way through his life becomes awful repetitious. ( )