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    The Wolf of Wall Street
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    The Wolf of Wall Street

    Written by Jordan Belfort

    Narrated by Bobby Cannavale

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    By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. 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 for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called . . .

    THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

    In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent.

    Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room, Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort's hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits-for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own.

    From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere-even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them-to the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down . . .

    WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 25, 2007
    ISBN9780739358146
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    The Wolf of Wall Street
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    Jordan Belfort

    Jordan Belfort has acted as a consultant to more than fifty public companies and has been written about in virtually every major newspaper and magazine in the world, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Times (London), Forbes, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of the two internationally bestselling memoirs, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, which have been published in over forty countries and translated into eighteen languages.

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    Reviews for The Wolf of Wall Street

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    • 3/5
      This book solidifies why I don't like Wall Street. The excessiveness, the drug abuse, the entitlement. It turns my stomach and Jordan Belfort is one of the worse. Don't know if I want to see the movie because I have no sympathy for him or any other Wall Street types who abuse their access to trading. I have no sympathy for someone who thinks they are above the law and can get away with everything and who thinks it's nothing to throw money away like Jordan did. I actually skimmed the last 30 pages as I got tired of reading about all the drug use, money abuse and just the stupidity of a smart, young man.
    • 2/5
      Couldn't really enjoy this book.
    • 2/5
      If I never see the phrase loamy loins again, I will be a very happy lady.
    • 1/5
      Gutter-writing at it's worst. This was painful to get through.
    • 3/5
      The book is ok. It will entertain you, but if you don't listen to it you won't miss out on anything.
    • 5/5
      HONESTLY BETTER THAN THE MOVIE, AND THE NARRARATOR IS AMAZING
    • 4/5
      Jordan mentioned "glorious" a few too many times. But I got the point. It was a great story about living life to the fullest. I enjoyed the very interesting peek at an exclusice culture.
    • 5/5
      It is fun and the narrator did a great job telling the story
    • 4/5
      I respect the man who orchestrated such fine print of exquisite literature and from his own life non the less.i just want to say your story amongst the rare few has served a great part in my future. Thank you
      (First ever novel review and probably my last)
    • 4/5
      I chose this book because I thoroughly enjoyed [The Buy Side] by Tourney Duff, a loveable screw up who I rooted for from beginning to end. But Jordan Belfont in The Wolf of Wall Street is a different character. He's a real asshole but you keep reading out of sheer curiosity about Wall Street. Although I follow the business community, I wasn't familiar with his story - which made the book suspenseful until the crooked end. I also enjoyed the B-School analysis of how to run Steve Madden's shoe company. And I have to admit, I warmed to Belfont toward the end. I like second chances, but if I met him today, I think he's still an asshole - utterly unredeemable.

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    • 2/5
      Exemplar of the rare case where the movie is far better. I can only read so many tales of a guy getting high on Quaaludes and having sex with prostitutes before I get bored. I suppose that's because I find this guy completely un-relatable
    • 5/5
      Wolf of Wall Street1987 This is the story of Jordan Belfort and he's new on the job at Wall Street where commodities are bought and sold continuously during the day.Follows his life as he learns from others how to get ahead. Many marriages, hookers, drugs, liquor help him succeed.Liberties that come with power he feels are his and thus that gets him in trouble on many fields. Loved the action and descriptive details on furnishings and surroundings. Travel and adventures are great to read about and the downfall and every element that happened to them both and the outcome.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
    • 3/5
      Not bad really. Thought I would not really like this after the first couple of chapters. The writing was not that great. But it did grab me and I found myself interested in the story. No it is not one of the greats but I have to admit I found my self chuckling away. At least he is fairly honest about his life. Although I will say that the ending is fairly deflatory, like a balloon losing air over a week or so: fairly unexciting. But still worth a read on this beach this summer.
    • 2/5
      An awful book. Badly written, a protagonist with no redeeming features and too little focus on the mechanics of what he actually did. Perhaps because he never really understood it himself. Scores 1.5 because somehow I managed to read all 500+ pages.
    • 2/5
      One thing you have to hand Jordan Belfort, he is quite the self promoter. His books remind me a lot of Lance Armstrong's many promo books before his downfall. This book encompasses Belfort's odyssey through his drug drenched ride to fame and fortune while bilking thousands out of hundreds of millions. The self proclaimed "Wolf of Wall Street" was invincible and continues his ride with books and a movie, and as a motivational speaker and sales trainer. His self indulgent lifestyle eventually costs him his marriage but he gets off relatively unscathed with a very light sentence at a country club Fed prison for "cooperating." Through it all he demonstrates his key trait, no remorse for what he did. Unfortunately he may be a role model for some.
    • 1/5
      The Wolf of Wall Street chronicles the professional and personal rise and subsequent fall of Jordan Belfort, a world-class stock market manipulator, money launderer, drug addict, serial philanderer, disloyal colleague, and all-around moral vacuum. Billed as a “rollicking tale” and a real-world complement to Tom Wolfe’s superb social satire The Bonfire of the Vanities, this book is really neither of those two things. Instead, it is little more than a tawdry, delusional, and self-aggrandizing memoir written by a very unreliable narrator. Indeed, I found this to be a truly execrable account of one of the most despicable characters I’ve ever encountered in print.Belfort’s story of frequently depraved and often criminal activity is by now well known, primarily because of the film adaptation that followed the publication of this volume by a few years. However, it is nowhere close to a story of redemption—certainly, I found the author’s myriad reprehensible actions to be far less charming and heroic than he himself does—nor does it even serve as a useful cautionary tale for how not to live one’s life. After all, what do we learn from someone who willfully—gleefully, even—cheats on and lies to two different wives (the second of whom he repeatedly refers to as the “luscious Duchess” for some vague reason), endangers the children he considers to be his possessions, defrauds thousands of investors out of millions of dollars, enlists relatives to engage in self-serving illegal schemes, and betrays numerous friends and business associates? Further, the book’s entire premise appears to another lie: Belfort’s financial activities were far removed from what is traditionally considered to be Wall Street and, as the prosecutor of his legal case recently revealed in a New York Times article, the author was never even called “The Wolf” until he wrote this memoir!I am not sure when I had such a strongly negative reaction to a book as I did to this one. As a personal guideline, I do not like to abandon any book I begin before reaching the conclusion, but I must confess to questioning the wisdom of that rule for the last 150 pages of The Wolf of Wall Street. Throughout the time I was reading about Belfort’s exploits, I had to fight the frequent urge to put it down and take a long shower with plenty of industrial-strength soap in order to remove the slime. Ultimately, I found absolutely nothing in this sordid narrative that redeemed any part of the experience of reading it. It now represents several days of my life that I will never get back and I would encourage other potential readers to avoid falling victim to the same fate.

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    • 4/5
      After having read The Bonfire of the Vanities, I'm curious whether Jordan Belfort had not also read it before writing his memoir, because his vernacular is very similar to Bonfire's Wall Street character. "Loamy loins", "Master of the Universe", same reasoning behind his philandering, etc.

      Hmm..

      (Update 12/21/13): After having read Belfort's second book he talked about having gotten inspiration for his writing style from The Bonfire of the Vanities, so there you go.
    • 4/5
      Jordan Belfort was living proof of the American dream in the heady days of Wall Street. Nicknamed the "Wolf of Wall Street", he lived in a fabulous mansion, with his beautiful wife and child, flew his helicopter, indulged in copious amounts of drugs, all while running a busy brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmount, which he had founded.Stratton Oakmount found fame as one of the biggest "boiler room" brokerage firms. Belfort was eventually convicted of selling purpotedly profitable stocks at inflated prices and spent two years in jail. This book attempts to tell the tale of his high life and how it all fell apart around him as his drug addiction spiralled out of control.There is no doubting what this man, and his company did, was odious. But as you read the book, what really comes across are Belfort's superb skills as a salesman and motivator. This is evident in every description of his motivational sessions at Stratton Oakmount, and even later when he was in rehab. You can only imagine what he was like to listen to in real life.Also apparent from the book is the scale of Jordan's intelligence. He comes across as quite a clever person, who however, devoted a significant part of his life to circumventing stock trading laws. His descrption of how he bugged the SEC personnel who were investigating his books is quite amusing and novel.His descriptions of his drug taking make you realise how easy it can be for an intelligent person to persuade themselves that their drug problem is under control not a problem at all.This book is quite a quick-paced, interesting and amusing read. Granted, the subject matter is unpleasant to some, but it is entertaining and quite an interesting insight into the mind of Jordan Belfort.

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