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Title: The Wolf of Wall Street
ISBN: 0553384775
Author:
Jordan Belfort
Publicate Date: 2008-08-26
Publish: 2008-08-26
List Price: $14.00
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Paperback
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1: So Funny...As good as Liars Poker! Brilliant!!!!
I was surprised at how good this book was...it was exceptionally funny from start to finish and if you liked the movie Wall Street ("Greed is Good") and the book Liars Poker, you will love this book! This is definitely one of my Top 10 books ever read...considering what that guy has been through, it makes my (sometimes near death) life and financial experiences seem humorous! Great book to read on your holiday or during your run on treadmill in the corporate rat race!!! (Jordan - Thanks)
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2: Sad but true
I actually worked for this company for about a month in the Bethesda, MD office in the summer of '93 and always swore the movie Boiler Room was modeled after this place. The parking lot was a car show with Lamborghini's, Ferrari's, Porsche's, etc. All they would talk about was the movie Wall Street. I made $200 a week to make cold calls from first thing in the morning until 8 at night. They wanted you to get 10 solid leads a day for your broker and they would close the deal after you qualified the client and found out how much they were working with in the market. If they didn't have $100k then you basically hung up on them. Really sad. Wasn't my cup of tea and to actually find out it was most likely the story Boiler Room was based on is just so bizarre. I would run into old coworkers and we would say the exact same thing about the irony between the movie and the company. I am glad that I wasn't a part of it as I couldn't get a lead to save my life since I hate cold calling.
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3: Awesome
If you loved Wall Street (the movie) and its cousins; loved Bonfire of the Vanities, American Psycho etc.; appreciate a good "bad man turns good" redemption story (but with plenty of full gorilla sick guy behavior before the redemption), you will love this book. I bought it and read the entire thing in one sitting. Jordan, if you're reading this review, the last few chapters brought me to tears. I am familiar with AA, drug addiction/Alcohol addiction and your 'voice" was both hilarious and endearing. I congratulate you. I am looking forward to your (hopefully) long writing career!
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4: Rich and dysfunctional
The even split between 1-start and 5-star reviews is very telling - you'll either love it or hate it, there seems to be very few in between. In short, the book is an over the top, fast paced, recount of non-stop drug abuse, sex, money laundering schemes, and stock manipulation. About halfway through the book I had to go online to confirm that this is, in fact, a non-fiction work - it reads more like a thriller.
If you're looking for stock market know-how, this is not the book that will teach you that, albeit the "chop stock" machinations on top of which Belfort built his empire are definitely an interesting historical artifact. Instead, this is a great tale of the lifestyle of the "rich and dysfunctional".
If you suspend your sense of reality, it is actually a quiet engaging book. Albeit personally, I am still shell-shocked from the thought that Belfort has lived and survived through all this.
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5: Very Exciting Book!!
Some people are complaining about it not being more detailed about his deals and his rise to the top. well if you looked in the back of the book you would realized that there will be a second book. It was a great change of pace book. I thought it was very exciting. Some of it was so insane you almost couldnt believe it. I think the people that are saying this book was bad were expecting something completely different. I enjoyed the book and look forward to reading the next one.
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