I've never tried Quaaludes, but by the end of reading this book I wanted to cry and apologize to everyone I knew for my addiction to them... (which I should probably reiterate I've never had).
", Don't Give This Author a Penny of Your Money, Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2016. In the end, Jordan's considerable skills are wasted, and his life swiftly unravels. A study in criminal psychology and drug addiction, Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2014.
Nevertheless, she persisted, graduating from Chicago’s first magnet high school, Princeton, and Harvard Law School, and pursuing careers in law and the nonprofit world.
But for all the outrage, this is a superbly written book that killed me - I laughed a lot and often. This gives him a certain degree of deniability if he is ever called on his memories about some of these events. Some stories merely skim the surface of larger issues, but Doyle revisits them in later sections and digs deeper, using friends and familial references to personify their impact on her life, both past and present. Jordan Belfort has a very limited vocabulary.
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Before he came to Wall Street, he was selling meat in a big van. From his perspective, things looked so normal, so logical and so “expected”! It’s not surprising that Obama grew up a rambunctious kid with a stubborn streak and an “I’ll show you” attitude.
It bounces from hilarious to WTF to OMG and back to hilarious. It was another reality, intoxicated reality.
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2016, Surprisingly well written. It should be another great book to learn and to be entertained. While most of the investors lost money, Jordan and his company, the main market maker, made insane amount of money by manipulating the thinly traded stocks.
Along with compliant women and copious drugs, there were multiple mansions, many servants, aircraft, yachts and, for all the guys on the trading floor, trophy wives. You start it and before you know it you're in the middle of it.
GENERAL BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR He rapidly raised to the stardom and became the idol of a generation of young brokers.
It's okay to be human, to be so consumed by money that you forget who you are because as humans we err, no one is perfect. Because every book by millionaires is about their struggles to get there, I found this book refreshing because for once I don't get to read about someone's struggles but the debauchery that comes with the million dollars - a reality that a lot of millionaires try hard to keep under wraps. Start by marking “The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)” as Want to Read: Error rating book.
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They shared his success, his genius and his madness.
The Wolf of Wall Street is a memoir by former stockbroker and trader Jordan Belfort, first published in September 2007 by Bantam Books, then adapted into a 2013 film of the same name (directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort). BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR. |
2,230 global ratings | 1,803 global reviews, Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2019.
I loved it, and can't wait to read Mr. Belfort's "Catching the Wolf of Wall Street" next. Honestly, the book is even more over the top than the feature film.
The people who I would have never read this book if it were not for a movie featuring Leonardo di Caprio being released soon based on this memoir. A memoir like this can be a beautiful thing if the author is genuine, honest and – hopefully – remorseful. It was a twisted hallucination: glamorous, exciting and inevitably unforgiving. He was outsmarting SEC and FBI by forged documents, false identities and ingenious money laundry techniques. They revered him like a god. The fact he now is a 'motivational speaker' proves that once again, truth beats fiction every time.
“Act as if! The craziness could easily dwarf even the former Long Island resident Great Gatsby.
It looked like fun… but a bit over the top. Driven by greed and corruption, his business, family, and life as a whole went downhill. Fun drinking game: try to read The Wolf of Wall Street and drinking for when one or more of the following appears on the page: 1) mention of erections; 2) how much something costs; 3) the use of the acronym WASP. by The level of douchebaggery that he attained has never before been reached. New York Times Bestseller.
Ranging from wild tales of drug use, treatment of stock brokers, rigging the system and how to engineer a stock run, the Wolf of Wall Street gives you the real ins and outs to what went wrong in the US financial system.
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He tends to overwrite, likely how he would dictate the stories in constant hyperbole, with tons of adjectives beyond what would ever be. Belfort is a very poor writer ("luscious loamy loans" is a repetitive descriptor), he repeatedly refers to himself in the third person, and is a thoroughly unlikeable protagonist.
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An engrossing memoir as well as a lively treatise on what extraordinary grace under extraordinary pressure looks like. Belfort tells his real-life story of creating Stratton Oakmont, a brokerage house engaged in pump and dump schemes with penny stocks. The book begins by describing his first day as a junior stockbroker on Wall Street.
So maybe the best advertising this book could have had was that a movie was being made on it, and that I am stickler for reading the book before I see the movie.
Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Wolf of Wall Street; This is the story of a man who started a brokerage firm. The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort was an interesting novel that left me completely disinterested. And filed for divorce when he was bailed out in the court.
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