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I just started reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown . It was published in 2009 and is the follow-up to The Davinci Code  and Angels and Demons - both of which revolve around Robert Langdon, a symbologist who is at the wrong place at the right time and finds himself in the midst of a battle between two evils and the only way out is to solve the puzzle and hopefully keep it out of the wrong hands. I'm looking forward to reading this book and hoping for the same sort of thrill, mystery and historical data as in the other two. After, hopefully I'll be able to read the latest installment Inferno . Crossing my fingers that it doesn't take me forever to finish.

First let me tell you that I know nothing about Wall Street. Probably less than nothing. I know nothing about stocks and when I was asked to do my 401k I stared blankly at the page because I had no clue what to do with it - and still don't if I'm being honest. But The Wolf of Wall Street , a memoir by Jordan Belfort , is not just about stocks and bonds and all that rubbish. It's mostly about his drug, alcohol and sex addiction, his rise to the top and his epic fall to the very bottom. There's a lot of partying, sex, drugs, but alas, no rock and roll. Jordan Belfort's quick rise to fame was his charm, wit and brains. Yes, he was very smart. He knew how to get people to do things, to move, to believe in him and what he could achieve. He did achieve a lot, millions and millions of dollars through stocks and bonds. Though, he did a lot of it through lying and embezzlement, which the latter he went to jail for. But before all of that, B...