The Wolf of Wall Street (Movie Tie-in Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00E8LV8XK |
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| Number of Pages | : | 118 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions - until it all came crashing down.. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belfort's own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. By night he spent it as fast as he could. Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island
"A study in criminal psychology and drug addiction" according to Amazon Customer. I gave this 5 stars, not because it is a good read or a truthful memoir, but because it is a fine example of criminal psychology and drug addiction.The supposed facts related by Belfort must be taken with a large dose of salt. He readily admits with some pride deceiving everyone he deals with including his wife and supposed friends and business partners. We would be quite gullible to then take his writing at face value. He portrays himself as generous to a fault, but of course the money he passes out is mostly stolen. The judgement against him included a requirement to pay over 100 million in retribution to t. "Entertaining book written by a total scumbag" according to Thomas Hilmersen. This book contains more background on Jordan's early days, his friends, etc He again reveals himself as a total scumbag and it is obvious that he has not changed. After ratting out his friends to the police, he rats them out to the general public in order to make some more money. And there are truly bizarre things here, like how the author gets morally outraged by a couple of girls dancing topless by his pool, in plain view of his young daughter. This from a man who has wandered around his home in a drugged stupor for most of that child's life, who has ripped off thousands of people, and who lies and betrays . Stock trader becomes a great story teller Maxwell Higgins Surprisingly well written. I think it is important for you, discerning future reader, to realize that basically all the dialogue in this book is invented. Jordan tells his life story in the form of a novel and takes a lot of liberties in order to get his point across. That being said, it is easily forgiven and should absolutely be filed under non-fiction; it is a wonderfully blunt contribution to the saga of the "American dream."The author does a great job of establishing his frame of mind and his mood in the given situation with his use of language and structure. He does not write things like "that made me a