Bantam The Wolf of Wall Street

Super livre, j'ai étais surpris par le nombre de pages (519). Je ne suis pas un bon lecteur, mais j'aime l'anglais et ce livre est très intéressant et tenant, on a envie de savoir la suite, c'est ecrit dans un anglais plutôt simple, familier. Parfait!

El libro venía algo maltratado de la esquina inferior derecha. De ahí en más el libro está bien.

Well written and extremely descriptive.

The story telling by Jordan is unparallelled, no one comes close(r). Guess he would become an awesome screenplay writer. But then in this book, he has elaborated things so much (more so in the middle of the book) that you will feel like thinking when will it end! Apparently, he wrote a 1500 pager and then was edited to 510 pages! Guess, how much more descriptive he would have become. Having said that, I looooved this book. If you have the patience and endurance for foul language, this is a MUST READ. I will surely watch the movie that's about to release (based on this book, with the same name).

I read the book after seeing the movie. If you too liked the movie then I would recommend you read it too: it goes more into depth about how Belfort came up, started Stratton (and his company before) and how the whole thing started to crash down. It also puts the story into a more proper time frame: the movie makes it seem like this all happened over the course of a couple years, when really it's the better part of two decades. It also shines light on what really happened, by which I mean it detailed the real who's who of what happened: in the movie the change a lot, for example Donnie is not with Jordan for a lot of his exploits, and in fact really isn't a huge player in the book as he is in the movie. I actually found reading Belfort's prose more enjoyable than DiCaprio's narration of events in the movie. Belfort hides nothing and does not ask for forgiveness for his misdeeds, but somehow comes off as more human and sympathetic than in the film. Great read!