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The Wolf of Wall Street | 
 enlarge | Author: Jordan Belfort
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 87777
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
ISBN: 0553384775
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9780553384772
ASIN: 0553384775
Publication Date: August 26, 2008 (In 31 Days)
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Product Description
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…
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…
From the Hardcover edition.
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 Waste of time July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It felt like I was reading fiction, and bad fiction at that.
I was not interested in learning about your drug habits Jordan, but rather your supposed knack of the market. I think I am stupider for having read that book.
 Not surprising June 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was really disapointed because after reading it I felt like many other readers. I thought the book was a complete waste of paper and money. Well, Because it starts out VERY interesting, I thought it was going to be a book about a young man's rise to power, and THEN his downfall. (i mean, i sat in barnes and nobles and read the book jacket as well as 2 whole chapters before I decided to buy the darn thing!) Anyway, it was not what I expected when i got home. It was just a story spanning a few hectic years of his life. Who Cares? Okay, maybe I would not be so upset if I did not feel so mislead at the begining.
The book had some interesting, but more boring parts in it, some were pure insanity, and his obsessions with everything including his own wife! I really do not think that this is the whole story, without giving away too much, i just don't, so much does not fit, or make any sense.
I title my review "not surprising" because as I read the book, I realized that he is a con artist, a liar, cheater, scum bag sales man, so OF COURSE he sold me this book!! LOL!!! that is the only reason it even got 2 stars! Bravo! Jordan, another triumph for you!
I feel sorry for his children May 15, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Poor Chandler and Carter. Not only are their parents divorced, and their father is a drug addict and a convicted felon. One of them saw daddy push mommy down the stairs. And regardless of what he says (Jordan Belfort has the self-awareness of a bug), their father came out of jail being the same pathetic jerk he was going in.
He devotes zero pages of the book to the effect his actions had on others, and he seems to consider breaking the law wrong simply because he got caught. And he now lurks on Amazon.com, attacking the many reviewers who didn't like his book, calling them "morons" and even, in one case suggesting the reviewer resign his job - simply because he hated the book. Let me repeat: this is a guy who thinks someone who doesn't like his book should give up his day job. That's how much of a jerk Jordan Belfort is, and it shows in every page of his tedious book.
I feel sorry for his children. I bet they'll be in rehab or jail before they turn twenty-one.
 what a ride May 8, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's hard to believe this is Belfort's first book. It is exceptionally well written and grips you from the first page. The book details Belfort's rise and fall as a financial tycoon. He was a self made multi-millionare who managed to risk it all thru risky trading schemes. But what's more astounding is what he put his body through along the way, abusing every drug imaginable and engaging in wreckless behavior. It's a candid story of his rise, fall, and recovery. In the end, you're left astounded that he managed to survive and tell the tale.
Unreadable April 20, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I couldn't finish this book, even when I decided to flip a few pages whenever the mention of "The Duchess" came up.
As interesting as his story is, he didn't tell him. Instead, this book is wrapped up in too much fluff. I gave up on this book and haven't picked it back up once since I bought it.
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