For my fourth post, I am reading The Wolf of Wall Street. So far, it is a very interesting book. It is very highly acclaimed also, and has a movie adaptation. So you know it's good. ( I will try to put some humor into this post).
First off is the content of the book. It is about the life of Jordan Belfort, a man who basically made a money printing machine from the way he describes his investing firm, Stratton-Oakmont. However, it is a legitimate company, even though it's owner and workers do so much illegal stuff that they could go to jail for millions of years. I mean really, at one point the guy almost crashes his helicopter because he is flying under the influence, and then he gets really high and shoots at his mailman with a shotgun!
Also, the book is based off of stock trading. Or at least all of the crazy stuff you can do once you get rich off stock trading. The book never really explains how it works, so you are left with crazy business jargon that no one understands. However, this doesn't take up the majority of the book, so I don't really mind. Overall, it's a good book so far.
I have never seen the movie or read the book yet. Maybe I should soon, it sounds hilarious. Good job summarizing the plot without giving too much away.
ReplyDeleteA book talking about a ton of illegal stuff... That seems like a crazy good read. I read your latest post and I wonder how they keep doing this after getting arrested many times? Is it for minor things like you said about the car crashing? What is the problem of the main characters that is trying to be solved? I want to read this book, thanks for introducing it to me.
ReplyDeleteI like how you gave a positive and a negative to this book.
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