The Wolf of Wall Street (Movie Tie-in Edition)

By: Jordan Belfort

Narrated by: Eric Meyers

Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times Best Seller

Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belfort's own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. It's an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millions - until it all came crashing down.

Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street

“Raw and frequently hilarious.” (The New York Times)

“A rollicking tale of [Jordan Belfort’s] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont...proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives.” (Forbes)

“A cross between Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorsese’s GoodFellas... Belfort has the Midas touch.” (The Sunday Times [London])

“Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment...a hell of a read.” (Kirkus Reviews)

©2007 Jordan Belfort (P)2013 Random House Audio

Enjoyed the book

What made the experience of listening to The Wolf of Wall Street (Movie Tie-in Edition) the most enjoyable?

It really kept my interest. I was pretty much glued to the book and hated having to turn my car off and go in to work.

What three words best describe Eric Meyers’s voice?

very good, Annoying Shrill

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No I learned from it.

Any additional comments?

If your going to read and deliver a woman's voice, use a woman to read that part.

VERY ENTERTAINING

An Outlandish tale well told and supremely narrated. Although a longer audio (upwards of 20 hours), I was completely mesmerized throughout. Well worth a credit!

Pure madness

loved the movie, the book is even better. narration was great, best best best best

Don't read this book, LISTEN to it!

Any additional comments?

The narrator is possibly the best fit for this story of any audible book that I have consumed. He really adds to the outlandish story. Please listen to and don't read this book. It is hilarious.

Voice of the duchess

Loved the narration except for when he did the duchess voice lol good listen though.

Great stories, so so recording

Like many of the other reviews, the vocals were painful when many of the women were portrayed

Excellent book

Loved it, its a lot better than the movie you cant belive most of what this guy does, its a story about love, power, money, addiction and redemption.

The Story of Excess

Overall, the story is really good. The story is a cautionary tale of excess. My only criticism would be that the performancer's impression of female characters got annyoning pretty quickly.

Really good story, but can be a tough listen at times.

I enjoyed the story quite a bit, having listened to it I wish more had made it into the movie. I understand why it didn’t, because the movie would have been NC-17 probably.

The narrator’s voice as females is really grating at times, and pretty unbearable in ling doses. I would have skipped though them if I didn’t care about missing parts of the story.

Much like the movie

The movie has the same effect in 3 hours rather than 20 hours. A few more life details in the book.