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3.37 AVERAGE
3.37 AVERAGE
After seeing the movie... it may say something about me that I wanted to know more, but the person who wrote this book really is such a horrible person that I couldn't get very far. Reading it disgusted me. I thought the movie had embellished it, but no, the book is the same and even worse.
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The book has a slow and difficult start but I'm glad I stuck with it. It slowly builds momentum until it becomes an unstoppable freight train toward the end. It was interesting to learn some of the questionable to down right illegal techniques used to make and shelter money. Many of the stories were wild and very entertaining especially the story of taking the obnoxious yacht into an epic storm.
Rage bubblegum. Moves at a nice clip - it's pretty compelling prose, all things considered. Totally redundant if you've seen the movie. Not a resource for understanding any of the underlying economic or securities structures, and not much to add to your pat profile of rich people psychology - Belfort makes for a simple, no fuss villain (complete with a weird Golem syntax he's always slipping into, e.g. capitalist scum, he was).
Surprisingly good.
Nice mixture of pure mayhem and also serious regret expressed.
Would be interested in more details
Nice mixture of pure mayhem and also serious regret expressed.
Would be interested in more details
This should be called the Wolf of Drug street, because this is a drug memoir first and foremost. I absolutely think they wanted to purposely mislead people with the movie, which I still have not seen, to being something more of substance with the main premise being the wheelings and dealings that happen on wall street. But Wall street is just background noise that supports his horrible drug problems. Case in point, first chapter tells of the first time he walked into a stock office and was introduced to everything. Second chapter skips 6 years to where he owns his own stock office and is knee deep in drug addiction along with all the execs who work for him. It really is a shameless piece. The writing is good though, engaging and direct. Vivid with the sexual passages and drug high descriptions. There is sequel I have no interest in reading.
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If you've read other Wall Street stories like this you already know what's in here; entitled, privileged guys treating other people (particularly women) like dirt on their way to being King of the Mountain. Belfort crows about his deplorable behavior and tries to wrap it all up with a nice bit of contrition at the end. It's an entertaining enough read, until you remember that these are all real people.
It's good but it's just so goddamn long. I liked the movie better.