UPDATE: It’s here. Enjoy.
It took me about a month to complete this story, roughly 15,500 words, or 60 pages long. It is easily my best writing to date, as I placed a lot of effort into it. I let a few people review it and they liked it, especially good olde Chuck, who actually bore witness to a lot of the debauchery in real life.
The setting is in 1997, me starting out as a young stockbroker at an unnamed brokerage firm on Wall Street. The dot coms were mired in a dreadful market, cleaning out many in the business who couldn’t take the drawdowns. I was very close to quitting and doing something else for a living, at the lows in 1998. But I held firm, put my head down, and as a result, made a god damned killing.
This is a living document. All of the things I mention in this book happened, no matter how absurd they sound. I intentionally made it short — because I do not have experience with this type of format and didn’t want to commit to a large novel and it turned out to be shit. If you like it, I will continue the story with “BUST.” And then after that, we can do 2003-2007, right before the website really took a hold of me. I might even do one about the site someday, which I am sure you’d be interested in.
The Kindle people are reviewing the Ebook now and I hope to have a print version out too.
After it comes out and you’ve read it and given me 5 stars, whether you loved it or not, we can do an open Q&A and I can give you the ins and outs, small details to fill you in on some of the backstories at play in the story.
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Good shit x2
Fear and Loathing inspired artwork?
I love Ralph Steadman. He can embellish key features of subjects so well. One of the reasons he’s so good at satire.
A long time reader did it. He’s awesome. Maybe he can chime in here and give his two cents.
I asked him to draw it. I described it roughly, but he found the inspiration and did a bang up job.
I’m ready to drop a sack of coin for a book
just 4.99
Thanks for the kind words Fly.
Yes, he specified a man in a top hat in a convertible car with dynamite headed towards the sun, so I ran with it. Wanted to make something chaotic, aggressive, and in your face to the reader with a sense of arrogance.
I laughed out loud 3 times today like a mentally ill patient.
I know all the stories very well but it was still hilarious to read them. Every word is true with zero embellishments.
Bravo.
Regards
Chuck Bennett
anyone else got the feeling it’s gonna be a VXX halloween?
fly can you post some exodus signals. let us read them. thanks
mañana.
I left a review advising amazon to burn every copy before Financial Armageddon hits early next week.
I bought it- only got to the forward but that was hilarious. Back to trading.
Read it all this morning, definitely hope you continue it.