April 6th, 2010 
David Hill 
- ISBN13: 9780553807042
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
In this astounding account, Wall Streets notorious bad boy leads us through a hotly paced from his early rise to power to the FBI raid on his estate to the endless indictments at his arrest, to struggling to find a way to salvage his self respect.Amazon.com Review
Book Description In the go-go nineties Jordan Belfort proved to Wall Street that you didn’t need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. But his company, Stratton Oa… More >>
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Great read from start to finish! Being a business owner myself i was instantly drawn to the sales aspect of the book, such an adrenaline rush. Highly recommend it!
Rating: 5 / 5
An absolute joyride. Belfort’s explicit, self-deprecating and highly colorful account of his meteoric rise and astonishingly self indulgent lifestyle grabbed me in The Wolf of Wall Street. Now in “Catching the Wolf”, he describes his plummet from Master of the Universe to being a nearly dead broke criminal defendant with a failed marriage, now wholly dependant on his keepers at the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Belfort’s discussions with his captors actually provide more details and insights than did his first book, as he describes his drive for success and his propensity for scheming; from selling Italian ice on Jones’ Beach, to selling frozen meat and seafood door to door in affluent Long island communities to peddling low priced stocks.
In some ways, his book is a primer on salesmanship because he stresses bullet points that he employed and which he drummed into the
heads of the “Strattonites” who unloaded the many IPO’s that were the
claim to fame of Stratton-Oakmont. For example, his scripts were factual and substantially truthful. More importantly, he recommended investments
to people with money. For the same effort, you write a bigger order and encounter less resistance. Obviously, his misdeeds involved his aftermarket machinations which caused the prices of house stocks to skyrocket, as well as his own use of nominees which enabled him to stockpile cash in the names of others in order to circumvent securities laws.
The most absorbing passages contained his account of his dealings with the FBI and the prosecutors and ultimately, his exposure to incarceration. Belfort describes these developments with humor, humility and with an abiding wonder at his own seeming compulsion to dig holes for himself. He has very likable human qualities which cause the reader
to feel his torment as assets are stripped away from him, despite the fact that he brought all this on himself and cost a lot of people a lot of money. The book is very anecdotal and the secret of its success is
probably Belfort’s style, which suggests a one on one conversation with the reader.
The details of his drug addiction, sex life and the characters who inhabited his world are funny and cleverly woven into the fabric of his
“memoir”. Many of the incidents he describes are flat out hilarious. The book is a terrific read, but I think that the reader’s enjoyment is heightened by reading “The Wolf of Wall Street” first, although this is not necessary.
Rating: 5 / 5
I couldn’t put it down. I am sorry for all the hurt and sadness that Jordon has brought on himself, his family and his friends. It is refreshing however for someone to really turn their life around. I am sure it has been difficult to retell these stories but the message of what greed, drugs and excess can do to people should be told. Congrats to Mr. Belfort for having the courage to do just that! I can’t wait for the movie.
Rating: 5 / 5
Whether you like or dislike Jordan Belfort, this is an entertaining book that is very funny at parts. The nicknames that he gives to each person in his life makes it enjoyable. A funny part is when he talks about the father that gets angry whenever the phone rings. He is upset that someone is calling on a Tuesday afternoon. Who would call at such a time? Although Jordan probably doesn’t realize it, a very important part of the book talks about how wasteful some of his spending was and what it means now. He unintentionally gets the reader to realize money is not important if you have your kid’s love. I personally like this style of writing. Totally different than the first book, because I think that he must have brushed up his writing skills and studied “entertainment writing” if there was such a subject. Although expensive, this book was a good investment on laughter and interest. I absolutely loved it!!
Rating: 5 / 5
Just like his first one, I enjoyed this book.. It being a true story and at the same time an outrageous story make it a very interesting, fun read.
Rating: 4 / 5