The Wolf of Wall Street - Jordan Belfort

The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort

The day Jordan Belfort entered the surreal prism of Wall Street his life did a wild u-turn. From that day Belfort lived his life like a fast train set on a high speed collision course. In his own words
'I lived like a king and partied like a rockstar.'

Three chapters in to 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and I was in no doubt why so many 'Kings' and 'Rockstars' end up in rehab.

Written in a sharp, coarse language (enough to make any Granny turn crimson to the tips of their ears), Belfort describes his destructive life as he rose in the ranks of stockbrokers to ultimately own his own stock broking firm, Stratton Oakmont. In Belfort's world Money was the only God. He popped uppers, downers and pain relief tablets like lollies, provided prostitutes as perks to his young employees and manipulated the market right under the nose of the regulators.

'The Wolf of Wall Street' is a testostrone charged tale of an over sexed, pill popping, manipulating stock broker who made it to the top only to realise (on those rare occasions when he was sober) that he did not really like the view! Reading this book I couldn't help thinking that Belfort wrote this book not as a penance but instead to massage his ego with a brag story.