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528 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2007
"My name is Jordan, and I'm an alcoholic, a Quaalude addict, and a cocaine addict. I'm also addicted to Xanax and Valium and Morphine and Klonopin and GHB and Marijuana and Percocet and mescaline and just about everything else, including high-priced hookers, medium-priced hookers and an occasional streetwalker, but only when I feel like punishing myself... I've been sober for 5 whole days now, and I'm walking around with a constant erection. I miss my wife terribly, and if you really want to resent me I'll show you a picture of her. Either way, I resent every last one of you or being total ******* and trying to take your life's frustrations out on me."^^ an actual quote from this book. ^^
But for all the outrage, this is a superbly written book that killed me - I laughed a lot and often. Ranging from wild tales of drug use, treatment of stock brokers, rigging the system and how to engineer a stock run, the Wolf of Wall Street gives you the real ins and outs to what went wrong in the US financial system.
The tale hits high moments between our protagonist and the Duchess, as well as some great moments that had me howling involving "The Cobbler". I found myself looking up the stocks mentioned, the history and what happened next.
You may not want to laugh - you may think to yourself "this guy is an ass---" and yet, you will laugh along with it. This is a brutally funny tale of American Horror.