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The Wolf of Wall Street

By: Jordan Belfort
Narrated by: Eric Meyers
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NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL.

'What separates Jordan's story from others like it, is the brutal honesty.' - Leonardo DiCaprio

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 sunk 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 for 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. In this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent - the story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down.

©2007 Jordan Belfort (P)2013 John Murray Press
Business Professionals & Academics Witty Thought-Provoking Wall Street Stock

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The outrageous memoirs of the real Gordon Gekko (Daily Mail)
Reads like a cross between Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese's Goodfellas Sunday Times (Sunday Times)
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What did you like most about The Wolf of Wall Street?

I enjoyed this but the narrative wanders all over the place. Sometimes spending ages on a particular incident but then moves forward months or over a year. There seems to be quite a bit missing from the early years which would have been interesting.

Would you be willing to try another one of Eric Meyers’s performances?

Eric Myers is obviously a good voice actor but the accents - especially for the female characters and especially non English speaking female characters can be really grating at times.

Enjoyable if somewhat wandering

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Brilliant quick paced witty well written story breath takingly honest take of how corrupt the banking world is .

Long live the Wolf

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I read this on the recommendation of a friend who mentioned it was more insane that the film.. he was certainly correct. I would recommend this book. Exciting from start to finish.

More intense than the film!

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JB is a true degenerate, the drugs, the sex and the rock and roll. When he isn’t being arrogant or vain this is a fantastic book.

A great ride

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Jordan Belfort is obviously a clever guy and this comes across in how eloquently written this book is.

This is amplified by how incredibly well read this book is with vivid expression and colourful voices for each character.

Very well written and excellently read

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