But this guy took his self-promotion to a whole new level and had no shame in proclaiming his brilliance at every opportunity. In comparison, Brits tend to be a bit more self-effacing.
At the risk of stereotyping a nation, Americans aren't usually backwards about coming forwards. After a while I began to feel complicit in indulging his "fake confessions". The author doesn't shy away from his tales of debauchery and depravity but there always seems to be an undertone of justification underneath which appeared to be an attempt at condoning his actions for one reason or another even when on the surface, he's criticizing himself for the things he's done.
The continuous emphasis on the obscene amounts of money that he made/spent were present on almost every paragraph, although this was something I should have expected given the premise of the book. This book takes the form of a memoir that constantly grated on my nerves by how the author constantly bragged about his all round genius at almost every opportunity. I found this book engaging but ultimately unfulfilling. Until it all came crashing down.Ī self-congratulatory attempt at absolution 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. 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. 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. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting.
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon. "What separates Jordan's story from others like it, is the brutal honesty." - Leonardo DiCaprio.
Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo Dicaprio ( The Great Gatsby, The Aviator), Matthew McConaughey ( Mud, Magic Mike), Jonah Hill ( Moneyball), Jean Dujardin ( The Artist), Kyle Chandler ( Friday Night Lights, Zero Dark Thirty) and Joanna Lumley ( Absolutely Fabulous), and adapted for the screen by Terence Winter ( Boardwalk Empire).
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